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Even Scott Jensen's detractors concede that the speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly has done a skillful job of consolidating his reputation as a patriotic fellow. In 1995, Jensen, a Republican who represents the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, proposed to amend an existing law in a way that would have placed an American flag in every classroom and required students in all public and private schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the national anthem every day. The vote in the Assembly, where Republicans held a slight majority, was 95-2. The bill then made its way to the Senate, where a committee chairman, in effect, stuck it in a drawer. Jensen was back at it in 1999, with an identical result—nearly unanimous approval in the Assembly, followed by a quiet death in the Senate. Earlier this year, the same thing happened. By then, the speaker no doubt had a clear picture of what was really going on. "We all vote for Jensen's flag bills," a Democratic assemblyman told me, "because we know they'll get killed somewhere else, and why put yourself through a tough vote?"
After the most recent setback, Jensen resorted to a tactic so effective that many of his colleagues wondered why he hadn't tried it before: he attached his proposal as a rider to the state budget bill. Routinely, hundreds of statutes that have virtually nothing to do with the budget per se, and that often possess dubious public-policy value, get appended to the budget bill. As co-chair of a joint Assembly-Senate committee that determined its precise content, Jensen was ideally situated to protect provisions he cared about. Not coincidentally, the budget bill is also the one piece of legislation that is certain, eventually, to get signed into law.
Another distinguishing feature of Wisconsin politics is that its capital city, Madison, is also the home of its largest public educational institution. The same thing is true of Texas, Ohio, and a few other states, but the cultural climate engendered by the University of Wisconsin sets Madison apart. When the rest of the country began drifting to the right during the seventies, Madison held its ground, and it has remained an island of liberalism—or, if you prefer, of gray-bearded soft-in-the-middle leftie-pinko Commie-symp delusional behavior. The dominant Madison world view is a lineal descendant of the Wisconsin Idea, the philosophy championed by Robert La Follette, the congressman, governor, senator, and, in 1924, Progressive Party Presidential candidate. It survives and thrives, often in amusingly exaggerated ways, no matter how many red-meat conservative politicians seek to advance themselves by "running against Madison." Twenty-three years ago, a moderate Republican governor named Lee Dreyfus referred to Madison as "fifty-two square miles surrounded by reality." It's a tribute to Madisonians' appetite for lively, usually friendly debate that nowadays this characterization tends to be cited at least as often by the left as by the right. Certain conspiracy-minded folk in Madison believe that Jensen opportunistically engineered the passage of his pet amendment with the confidence that Madison would find a way to fail his patriotic litmus test. Jensen himself says, "People think I'm this extremely clever strategist who set them up. But, actually, I just wanted every school day to begin with the Pledge of Allegiance."
The new law mandating the pledge or the national anthem every day was supposed to have gone into effect September 1st, at the beginning of the current academic year. Because of some benign bureaucratic confusion, however, a few weeks went by before state officials got the word out to local school districts. By then, September 11th had happened and Americans had begun to think in unprecedented ways about what it meant to salute the flag or publicly express one's love of country. This proved no less true of Madison than anyplace else. Nevertheless, the city was soon caught up in a not at all friendly debate of the only-in-Madison variety, a controversy that in its most heated moments succeeded in overshadowing the national crisis that had provoked it.
During the final week of September, parents of Madison public-school students read newspaper reports and received formal notification that, come Monday, October 1st, the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem would become part of the daily ritual. That weekend, some members of Madison's seven-seat school board received phone calls from apprehensive parents and teachers. The new law stipulated that "no pupil may be compelled, against the pupil's objections or those of the pupil's parents or guardian, to recite the pledge or sing the anthem." Apparently, however, that language wasn't good enough. When a retired Madison high-school English teacher and school-board member named Bill Keys fielded such calls, he gave his standard response: "Come to the next school-board meeting." As it happened, one was scheduled for the evening of October 1st. Ten parents showed up to spell out their opposition to the law, which amounted to this:
Requiring the Pledge of Allegiance, with its reference to "one nation under God," violated the doctrine of church-state separation. Furthermore, members of certain religious groups never say the pledge because they're forbidden to utter oaths other than to God. Then there was the tricky business of what "God" connoted. A University of Wisconsin psychology lecturer with children in elementary and middle school told the board, "While it may seem that the words 'under God' do not endorse a particular religion, they in fact do. Those words imply a certain type of God, a male god, a singular god. There are families in Madison that do not believe in a supreme being, there are families that believe in a Goddess rather than a God, and there are families that believe in a spirit world populated with multiple deities." On balance, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was deemed less offensive than the Pledge of Allegiance, but its militaristic imagery did pose a problem; "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" wasn't the sort of poetry Quakers and other committed pacifists wanted their children declaiming each morning. Above all, leaving aside questions of minority rights (why should non-Americans be placed in a position that marginalized them even more than they already were?), what the law really amounted to was an unsubtle form of coercion, one that smacked of McCarthy-era loyalty oaths and defined patriotic self-expression in narrow and unimaginative terms.
Those, anyway, were the arguments, and they raised questions that couldn't be resolved in a single evening. The board president, Calvin Williams, decided to call a special meeting to address the topic. When it took place, a week later, a different group of ten parents attended. On neither occasion did any speaker defend the new law. After an hour-long discussion, the board approved, by a 3-2 vote (two members were absent), a resolution put forward by Keys: every school would offer, every day, a wordless, instrumental version of the national anthem. Period. The two dissenters, a University of Wisconsin Law School dean named Ruth Robarts and a Hmong immigrant social worker named Shwaw Vang, were not defenders of the pledge. Rather, they felt that Keys's compromise still didn't adequately protect nonparticipants. "I'm just very uncomfortable with anything that does not remove the coerciveness of the classroom," Robarts said. Why not comply with the law, she asked, by offering the pledge or the national anthem at a specified time each day in a gymnasium or auditorium? Because, the majority agreed, such an approach would be too time-consuming and cumbersome.
As it turned out, time-consuming and cumbersome barely described the unwelcome consequences of the board's vote. A headline in the next day's Capital Times, the more liberal of Madison's two daily newspapers, said "PLEDGE BANNED IN CITY SCHOOLS." In the days that followed, as hostile reactions to the decision rained down on the school board, Keys and his defenders would maintain that the reference to a "ban" was inaccurate and had triggered the backlash. The resolution, they pointed out, made no mention of the pledge. Semantic sophistry, the critics countered; whether or not the pledge was actually mentioned, the result was, de facto, a ban. The air war in Afghanistan was two days old when the message went out over the right-wing talk-radio airwaves: "In the Madison, Wisconsin, public schools they have—get this—banned the Pledge of Allegiance. Banned it! Unbelievable. Un-American."
The day after the vote, Art Rainwater, the superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District, and Calvin Williams, the board president, were publicly stating that the board would reconsider its decision. Though Williams had voted with Keys, he called a press conference and said, ruefully, "We did not consider all the ways it could have been interpreted or misinterpreted." Then he announced yet another special meeting, to be held the following Monday—during which, it seemed foreordained, the board would reverse itself. Commentary by Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and the like prompted acolytes to flood Rainwater's office with complaints. Temporary employees had to be hired to answer the phones. Angry E-mails arrived at the rate of a thousand per hour, until the E-mail system began returning them unread.
On October 15th, twelve hundred people jammed the auditorium and an overflow cafeteria in one of Madison's four public high schools for an event that lasted from five o'clock in the afternoon until two-thirty the following morning. Depending upon who was offering the postgame analysis, what transpired was a nasty spectacle of bullying jingoism or a stirring display of pure participatory democracy—or both. Just as the meeting got under way, a large contingent of the audience rose and, as if taunting the school-board members gathered on the auditorium stage, shouted the Pledge of Allegiance and followed that with fist-waving chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" Then came the speakers, each allotted three minutes—a hundred and sixty-six opinionated citizens, by turns pro, con, eloquent, inarticulate, sentimental, arrogant, humble, coolly analytical, belligerently nationalistic, self-righteous, philosophical, and, of course, unassailably patriotic. Another six hundred and eighty-three people submitted written statements. When it was all over, the board voted 6-1 to undo its previous decision. Individual principals would decide whether to offer the pledge or the national anthem in their schools, and the ceremony each day would include this preamble: "We live in a nation of freedom. Participation in the Pledge or Anthem is voluntary. Those who wish to participate may stand; others may remain seated."
The lone holdout was Keys, who, ironically—but, because this was Madison, perhaps not so surprisingly—happened to be the lone white male member of the board, which also included two women, two African-American males, a Hispanic male, and Shwaw Vang, the Hmong immigrant. A great deal of vituperation was directed at Keys, and, in an especially creepy way, at Vang. During the in-your-face recitation of the pledge, Keys and Vang had remained seated. Before the members of the public gave their three-minute statements, Vang, a soft-spoken father of three in his mid-thirties, took the microphone and said, "As Americans, each of us has a right to do what he feels is right, and I have as much right as anyone else. I won't be forced to do something against my will. That's a right I have as a citizen. I also believe in the Pledge of Allegiance. I say it because I believe in it and when I want to say it—not because a group of people forces me to say it. Now I'm going to say the pledge. I invite everyone to stand and say it with me. Those who don't want to do so, I respect your right not to, and I hope you have the courage to remain seated." Whereupon he faced an American flag, stage right, and, along with virtually the entire audience and all the other school-board members except Keys, recited the pledge.
The next time Vang spoke was hours later, after a local talk-radio shock jock named Chris Krok took the floor and attacked him, saying, "You've been called Seesaw Shwaw. You've said 'yea' and 'nay.' You say the pledge promotes war, but this is not Vietnam—this is America." Vang was not unprepared for this sort of idiocy. On his home telephone-answering machine, he had recorded greetings in both English and Hmong, for which his reward had been messages from callers saying things like "I can't even understand what you're saying. You don't belong on the school board." Vang's only direct response to Krok was a terse "I just want to correct one fact: I wasn't born in Vietnam." Then, toward the end of the meeting, before the board voted, he elaborated. He had been born, he explained, in Laos, the son of an officer in a special guerrilla unit funded by the C.I.A. "I was never a soldier," he said. "But I was a child living in the midst of war. As a parent, and as somebody who had gone through that experience, I prayed that my children would never be placed in that situation, that no children would be placed in that situation. I've seen a lot of what war can do. I question whether patriotism only means serving in the military or whether it isn't possible to serve the country in a different manner. I can tell you that in Thailand or Laos, if the pledge or the national anthem is being said, no matter where you are you'd better stand up straight and salute. There's a feeling of fear that goes with that, the fear of a government that wants to control every single move a person makes. In Laos you have to have total respect for the government or you will be persecuted. Almost every Laotian teacher and student says the pledge, but does that teach them to be more patriotic? I don't think so."
And what was Vang's emotional reaction to what he'd just witnessed? "I've never been so scared for myself and my kids in all the years I've been here."
Even before the vote was taken, the next round in the battle had begun. That same evening, in the same building, an organization that had incorporated itself as the Madison School Board Recall Committee held a press conference and announced plans to try to remove from office Bill Keys, Calvin Williams, and Carol Carstensen, the third board member who had first voted to "ban" the pledge. A statement by the group's chairman, a former Republican congressman named Scott Klug, made plain that, while he normally had little interest in education policy, this situation was extraordinary. A recall campaign posed a logistical challenge: almost thirty-two thousand petition signatures would have to be collected before a special election could take place. Regardless of the outcome, for conservatives here was an irresistible opportunity to score points at the expense of Madison's liberal hegemony. "This is Madison," Klug told reporters. "Before this is all over, there'll be somebody somewhere holding a bake sale for Osama bin Laden, saying he's been misunderstood and is the way he is because he didn't have mittens as a child in Saudi Arabia."
Within a few days, the recall activists had refined their strategy: they would go after Keys, and they would time their petition drive so that a vote could take place next February, when Williams and Carstensen, should they choose to run again, will likely face a reëlection primary. The people I spoke with in Madison tended to agree with John Nichols, an editorial writer for the Capital Times, who said of Keys's antagonists, "I know these people. Most of them are sincere. They honestly believe the school board went off the deep end. Most of Madison believes that the school board made a mistake. But it's not a recallable offense." Keys himself struck me as neither contrite nor distressed. "I still have a good relationship with all the members of the board," he said. "I'm not carrying this on my back. My election committee has already met. I've received lots of mail from people saying 'When can I contribute? What can I do?' "
Even by Madison standards, Keys lacks the aura and demeanor of a politician. He's sixty years old, pink-faced and freckled, with red hair that's completing the transition to white. His drooping mustache, wire-rimmed glasses, plaid shirts, and bluejeans give him the over-all look of a lean Wilford Brimley. The conventional wisdom is that Keys stands a far better chance of defeating a recall than Williams or Carstensen do of winning reëlection, because, when confronted with an angry mob à la "High Noon," he didn't blink or budge. "It's most important that you affirm your principles and live your principles in a time of crisis," he told me. "Otherwise, you don't really believe in them." Consistency, it seems, is Keys's most consistent trait. His first teaching job, in the mid-sixties, at a high school in suburban Maryland, ended after the principal wandered into his classroom during a discussion of "The Canterbury Tales." In the principal's estimation, Keys's pedagogy threatened to undermine the morality and religious beliefs of the students. "Change or leave," the principal advised, so he left. He found a more congenial atmosphere in Madison, where, for thirty-one years, he taught English literature, film criticism, and writing at West High School, in a leafy, tidy neighborhood near the University of Wisconsin campus. During a graduation address at West several years ago, Keys, who for three years was president of the local teachers' union, referred to teaching as a "sacred ritual."
Keys retired in the spring of 1999, was elected to the school board the following spring, and for the past year has spent every Wednesday as a volunteer at a mental-health facility, where he teaches classes in English and citizenship to members of the local Hmong community. He happened to be teaching on the day that the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison's other daily newspaper, published an editorial fulminating against him. "Someone in class that day asked about the word 'reputation.' And I used the newspaper editorial as an example. I said, 'A reputation is what people say about you. But it isn't necessarily an indication of who you are. Who you are is what you do.' "
Would the school board have acted as it did, I asked, and would Keys be in the position he finds himself in, if September 11th hadn't happened?
"That's the road not taken," he said. "I don't think what we did blew up in Madison's face. I think the nation blew up in Madison's face. I was asked on TV, 'Why did you tackle this issue now?' I said, 'We didn't tackle it, it tackled us.' The law was passed before September 11th and implemented after September 11th, and what could we do?"
From my meeting with Keys, I went to an appointment with Bill Geist, a freelance tourism consultant who has become Scott Klug's co-chair in the recall campaign. As we sat in his dining room, Geist, a broad-shouldered fellow in his mid-forties, said, "I like the fact that when my friends and I gather around this table I have raging progressives on one side and raging conservatives on the other. That's what makes this a wonderful town. But the minute somebody slams the door and says, 'Nope, you can't salute the flag or sing the national anthem in school,' then Madison isn't such a wonderful place.
"This whole thing isn't about religion, it isn't about patriotism. It's about 'Do these people on the school board represent this community's best interests?' There are those who try to paint us as trying to shove our nationalistic views down people's throats. That just isn't the case. There's no coercion here. If anything, we think the board overstepped its bounds in telling principals and teachers that they could not lead their class in the pledge. That's a form of coercion.
"Maybe I've got too much faith in today's kids, because I think they do honor tolerance and diversity. I realize there's the chance that somebody might feel ostracized in one way or another, but so do the kids with zits, so do the dweebs, so do the stoners and the jocks. Everybody has a little of that. I think kids today respect each other better than we did. I understand the issue, but to take away rights from ninety-seven per cent of the kids to protect what might happen to three per cent, I've got to question that one."


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Upgrading ODI 22.214.171.124 Repositories to ODI 220.127.116.11
Upgrading ODI 22.214.171.124 Repositories to ODI 22.214.171.124:
Today we will upgrade existing ODI 220.127.116.11 repositories to 184.108.40.206. First take the backup of existing repositories. Open SQL Developer and move on as per below screenshot.
I am copying my master repository to ODI_MASTER2.
Similarly you can take backup for all your repository. Once backup is done we have to call the upgrade assistant.
1st go to the ODI_HOME\bin location of 22.214.171.124. In my case it is C:\oracle\product\11.1.1\Oracle_ODI_1\bin. So in command prompt, switch to that location and call ua.bat as given in below screenshot and proceed accordingly.
That's all. Now you can use your repositories for 220.127.116.11. One thing I noticed that the same repositories can be used in 22.214.171.124. If you want to configure local agent refer this post and for Java EE Agent this one.
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Hi ,
I have already ODI 188.8.131.52 installation ,means i need to re unistall and install 126.96.36.199 and then do the upgrade asistatnt(ua.bat) Is thi sright?
Hi Bhabani,
Thank you for your post.. We are trying to migrate from ODI 10G to ODI 11G.. I followed the step above and migrated successfully, but we are getting the following error while i am creating new connection in "Repository Connection Information"
oracle.odi.core.config.MasterRepositoryVersionMismatchException: ODI-10179: Client requires a repository with version 04.03.04.02 but the repository version found is 4.2.02.01.
at oracle.odi.core.repository.Repository.getMasterRepository(Repository.java:118)
at oracle.odi.core.OdiInstance.createMasterRepository(OdiInstance.java:491)
at oracle.odi.core.OdiInstance.(OdiInstance.java:544)
at oracle.odi.core.OdiInstance.createInstance(OdiInstance.java:521)
at com.sunopsis.graphical.dialog.SnpsDialogLoginDetail.testConnection(SnpsDialogLoginDetail.java:755)
at com.sunopsis.graphical.dialog.SnpsDialogLoginDetail.access$4(SnpsDialogLoginDetail.java:743)
Any idea about this error..Appreciated your reply..
Many Thanks,
Dear Bhabani,
Thanks for your reply.. we are trying to migrate from production to development, i copied schema to development database server, everything was fine without any error but i checked the repository version, it is showing 4.2.02.01 which is old one..i think it is not migrated properly.. .whether i have to follow any other steps for migrating from production to development ?
Many thanks,
Hi Bhabani,
Could you pls tell me, is it possible creating more than one Master repository connection for the same instance.
When i try to do so, am getting the below error while configuring the work repository details in topology manager.
"A work repository already exists for this connection.
Enter the repository password to declare it in your Master Repository"
I tried with both the new master and work repository password. But no luck.
Could you pls advice.
While executing the RCC, am getting an error like the below.
'Failed to connect to the RCC Master Repository. Verify that the ODI Repository Consistency Checker environment is up and running'
I configured the master repo details in sample.properties as mentioned in the oracle article
Could you pls suggest where am doing mistake.
Getting the following error while trying to establish connection to the master repo We have installed, 188.8.131.52 version of ODI on the local PC :-
oracle.odi.core.config.MasterRepositoryVersionMismatchException: ODI-10179: Client requires a repository with version 04.03.04.02 but the repository version found is 4.2.02.01.
Please advise which version of ODI studio should we install to make this work.
Thank you.
Hi,if I have ODI 18.104.22.168, wherein I have 5 schemas (1 RCU run and the rest 4 created using create user command in db) with one schema for Master and the rest for Work Repo. Will the upgrade process upgrade the 4 work repo schemas? FYI.. these tables do not showup in schema_version_registry table with COMP_ID. OR is it that I will need the 4 schemas as RCU run schemas?
I have upgraded odi existing repositories from 188.8.131.52 to 184.108.40.206.0.i was able to connect to upgraded work repositories from new master repo.
Now query is,i have created new work repository under same master repository.
But the error as below:
oracle.odi.core.config.WorkRepositoryVersionMismatchException: ODI-10179: Client requires a repository with version 04.03.04.02 but the repository version found is 04.03.03.08.
Do i need to upgrade this repository or any work around is there?
Advance thanks for your reply.
we have our ODI repositories(10g) on X oracle DB and using which the ODI nighty ETL loads the data to Y oracle DB. Now are looking to upgrade the ODI from 10g to 11g first and then from 11g to 12c by moving the repositories from "X" to "Z" so the installation and upgrade assistant should be installed on "Z"(new) server where new oracle database also resides with minimum version of (18.104.22.168)right? and After the upgrade we connect to work and master reps using the clients(designer and operator)?

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2011--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending the boundaries of the bovine tuberculosis risk classification zones for the state of Minnesota.
Portions of Lake of the Woods, Roseau, Marshall and Beltrami counties, which were previously classified as modified accredited advanced, now meet the requirements for accredited-free status. The entire state of Minnesota now meets the requirements for accredited-free status. These actions lessen restrictions on the interstate movement of cattle and bison from these areas of Minnesota.
APHIS classifies states or zones within states according to their prevalence levels of bovine tuberculosis. There are five classifications: accredited-free, modified accredited advanced, modified accredited, accreditation preparatory and non-accredited. Restrictions on the interstate movement of cattle and bison become less stringent as a state approaches or achieves accredited-free status.
Bovine tuberculosis is a contagious and infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis. It affects cattle, bison, deer, elk, goats and other warm-blooded species and can be fatal. The disease can be transmitted to humans through direct contact with infected animals or consumption of raw milk. It is not transmitted through pasteurized milk.
Notice of this interim rule is published in the Oct. 4 Federal Register and becomes effective upon publication.
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I have been having a very interesting discussion on Linkedin.com having expressed my opinion about current information technology and the netular information technology I would like to see.
The people who have been exchanging their views with me cannot see the forest for the trees. One is offended that I do not rave about all the social transitions the technologies are offering. Another spews buzzwords like a chainsaw. Another assumes my opinion is a product of my impatience for the convergence of the existing technologies.
Einstein once said he would spend a majority of his time defining a problem and a fraction of his time solving it. A majority of the time on information technology is spent solving and a fraction actually taken to understand. The consequence is most of the solutions out there are not designed, they are hastily assembled patchworks that because of the inertia of being first on the field are only replaced by further patches.
Our entire system of networks is built upon a foundation of linear and tabular architecture that is present in our CPUs, memory, storage, data structures, programming languages, organization, locations, events and goals. In reality we are only dabbling in networks and doing an abysmal job of using them to their full effect. We don't understand them.
Marshall McLuhan said that when a new media is created the first thing we do is pump old media through it. That is what we are doing now. We are taking every form of old media we have and pushing it through the internet. There is not a single case where we have successfully departed from linear and tabular old media. I have looked at all the current technology, I have used it, I understand its internals and I stand by what I say.
We need a fundamental change in the way information technology works otherwise we are going to continue with an undesigned brute force attempt to solve our problems without ever understanding them. The outcome will not be progress, but the perpetuation of flat earth thinking.
Linear and tabular thought are responsible for many of the problems we have in the world. The biggest is the inability to fully appreciate the uniqueness of everything and everyone in this world. The supreme example of this has been the long history of Religion, Genocide, Slavery, Nationalism, Imperialism, Racism, Eugenics, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Marxism, Capitalism and Socialism. All of them fail us because they depended on linear and tabular models of thought that denied the respect of the individuality of all experience. True netular thought has the potential to challenge all of these misconceptions. I think it is appropriate that this transition is on the horizon with the rise of globalism. I doubt it will be a peaceful transition.
Actually, the insights into the underlying order in networks has made quite a bit of progress. One of the leaders in this area is Albert-Beszlos Barabasi who authored the book "Linked" http://www.nd.edu/~networks/Linked/index.html . Another researcher Kwabena Boahen made a fascinating presentation at TED http://tinyurl.com/6nnkb7 . There is also the work of Simon Williams that has come up with a new associative database architecture http://www.lazysoft.com as well as a commercial product, Sentences.
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Over the past 6 months, I've been watching perplexed as vendor after vendor launched Android Tablets into the market with no success. Perplexed for a simple reason – I could not understand how they expected consumers to buy their $559, $499 or even $399 tablets when they could get an iPad 2 for $499 and get the real deal – the TRUE status symbol, the best content & app eco-system. What were Samsung, Motorola, Dell and Asus thinking, I was wondering. Was it a shortage / price of components that pushed them to that price bracket? Was it protecting the brand at all costs, even failure?
A couple months ago, I asked a question on Quora and the results were staggering – over 20:1 for iPad.
So what has changed? The $199 Kindle Fire. You can get two of those, and still have money for another holiday gift.
Amazon's Kindle is an ecosystem, not a device. Amazon sees it as a way to make sure you buy all your content – books, music, TV – from Amazon. Just yesterday they announced the streaming deal with FOX TV – more free content for Amazon Prime subscribers. Guess which devices will feature it? Remember Sony's Howard Stringer's announcement a few weeks ago – "Apple makes an iPad, but does it make a movie?". Amazon doesn't make them, but it sure-as-hell moves them around. In a move right out of Steve Jobs' books, Amazon is tying it all together – device, app store, content store, streaming rights (with free content for Prime members), e-commerce for physical goods, payment options (from one-click to credit cards), cloud storage, even a loyalty program!
Kindle now touches everything Amazon does, and so many other companies. It threatens Netflix streaming – Amazon is securing more content for Prime members, and has a sound pay-TV model with a complete eco-system around it and it obliterates all other Android tablet manufacturers volume forecasts for the holiday season (a $200 rival with a strong brand behind it).
And it's a credible contender for Apple's eco-system. It is as broad, as far reaching, and goes even further with physical e-commerce embedded.
Probably the only risk is execution. If the software / hardware is good enough (defined as – better than most Android implementations), this will make a huge dent in the market. iPad will become the high-end product, but Android, through Kindle, could be the mass-market. Not so different from iPhones and Androids, actually.
My pre-order is in.


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Microsoft's YouTube channel got hacked over the weekend by pranksters who replaced corporate videos with cartoons.
One of the uploaded videos, titled Bingo, showed a character from the LA Noire video game shooting another animated figure in the head. Other videos called on 'Tubers to "post video responses, create new background images for the channel or provide sponsorship", net security firm Sophos reports.
By the time of writing on Monday the channel had been restored to 'normality' - which mainly appears to be models gesticulating wildly in front of tellies.
It's unclear how miscreants managed to gain control to Microsoft's YouTube account, though poor password security by a Microsoft worker is one obvious possibility. One YouTube user suggested that the channel was first established by a Microsoft fan before it was handed over to the software giant. "The flaw is that this account was probably still linked to this kid's email and Microsoft forgot to change it or whatever," the punter suggests.
The Microsoft YouTube channel hack comes a week after hackers broke into the Sesame Street YouTube channel to post hardcore porn clips in place of child-friendly content.
In other internet hijacking news, LG's Australian website was defaced by members of the Intra Web Security Exploit Team on Sunday night. "The attackers replaced the site with some lightly obfuscated JavaScript. The script pretends to be conducting an injection attack as you watch, whilst an expletive-laden track by nerdcore hacker-rapper BeWiz plays in the background," Sophos reports. The hacked www.lg.au website was taken down prior to its return and redirected towards the apparently unsullied www.lg.com/au domain. ®


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The Politics of Union: Northern Politics During the Civil War
?The best general account of politics in the North,? as David Herbert Donald calls this book, is also the first one-volume history of its subject. Abraham Lincoln?s single goal of saving the Union required not simply subduing the South but contending as well with divisiveness in the North?with refractory state officials, draft resisters, peace advocates, secret organizations, with Northern Democrats (too often seen only as Copperheads or as traitors to the Union), and with powerful Republicans who often vocally disagreed with Lincoln?s policies. In this account, Radical Republicans represent consensus with Lincoln more than conflict, sectional more than economic interests, and party over faction. Largely, dissent was heard and accommodated; and, if the federal legislation of the time did amount to a Second American Revolution, it emerged from the conflicts, within the North as well as against the South, of a nation at war. The outcome was a nation not only saved but strengthened and slavery ended.
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Bulls offense too much in 9-2 win
The International League's top offense was too much for the Bisons to handle on Wednesday night.
Durham got home runs from Chris Richard, Angel Chavez and Rashad Eldridge in a 9-2 victory over Buffalo on Wednesday night.
The Bulls had just three hits over the first five innings against Bisons' starter Tobi Stoner, but two of them left the yard. Richard opened the scoring with a lead-off shot in the third inning while Chavez hit one out in left field with two outs in the fifth for the 2-0 lead.
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Durham entered the game hitting .300 as a team. They also had a large lead on the rest of league in total home run (25) and stolen bases (31) after just 20 games.
Eldridge hit his first homer of the season with one out in the sixth inning. Justin Ruggiano and Hank Blalock followed with back-to-back doubles to build a 4-0 lead and knock Stoner from the game.
The Bisons cut the lead in half in the bottom of the sixth inning as Mike Hessman and Chris Carter produced RBI-singles. The Herd then had two cracks with the tying runs on base, but Bulls' reliever Mike Ekstrom got Russ Adams and Josh Thole to fly out to end the threat.
Durham added two runs of insurance in the eighth inning and three more in the ninth for the 9-2 win.
Both Jesus Feliciano and Jason Pridie extended their hit streaks to seven games. Each have averaged over .400 during their stretches. Chris Carter finished the game 2-4 with a double and an RBI.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (updated May 2, 2010) - USA Volleyball has selected 24 players and four coaches to lead its U.S. Women's National A2 Program for 2010.
The 2010 U.S. Women's National A2 program is scheduled to train May 24-28 in Tempe, Ariz., before being split into two 12-player rosters to compete in the Open Division of the 2010 USA Open National Championships held in nearby Phoenix. The Open Division flight takes place May 29-June 1 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Additional information on the tournament can be found at www.usavolleyball.org/events/2245.
"I was very happy with the level of the tryout held in February and, as a result, we expect that this year's A2 teams will be very strong in training and in competition at the USA Open National Championships," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. "The future continues to look bright for the U.S. Women's National Team with the talent coming up through the pipeline."
Copyrighted by USA Volleyball/Bill Kauffman The 2010 U.S. Women's National A2 Team includes four setters, 10 outside/opposite hitters, six middles and four liberos. The 24 players come from 18 different collegiate programs.
"As we thought the open tryout in February was the best and deepest collection of athletes that we had seen at that event, we feel the same about this group of A2 athletes," USA Volleyball Managing Director of Indoor High Performance Tom Pingel said. "I'm already looking forward to watching this group in training and the Open Championships."
Middle blockers selected for the A2 National program are Rachael Adams (University of Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio), Alyssa Davis (Auburn University, Oakland Park, Fla.), Jen Doris (University of Texas, Houston), Lindsay Fletemier (University of Dayton, Garden City, Mich.), Sabel Moffett (Northwestern University, Temecula, Calif.) and Dominique Olowolafe (Cal Poly, Lansing, Mich.).
Setters selected for the A2 squad are Carli Lloyd (University of California-Berkeley, Bonsall, Calif.), Kelly Murphy (University of Florida, Wilmington, Ill.), Evan Sanders (Colorado State University, Lafayette, Colo.) and Paige Weber (University of Arizona, Indianapolis, Ind.).
Copyrighted by USA Volleyball/Bill Kauffman Liberos/Defensive specialists chosen for the A2 program are Ellie Blankenship (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Laura Gonzalez (University of Albany, Carolina, Puerto Rico), Ashley Mass (Iowa State University, Muskego, Wis.) and Sydney Yogi (University of Texas, Honolulu).
Outside hitters and opposites named to the A2 team are Kelsey Black (Texas A&M, Amarillo, Texas), Kanani Danielson (University of Hawaii, Ewa Beach, Hawaii), Laura DeBruler (University of Illinois, Downers Grove, Ill.), Whitney Dosty (University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.), Juliann Faucette (University of Texas, San Diego, Calif.), Nikki Fowler (University of Tennessee, Dallas, Texas), Monique Mead (Georgia Tech, Newnan, Ga.), Tarah Murrey (University of California-Berkeley, El Cerrito, Calif.), Juliane Piggot (UC Irvine, Newport Beach, Calif.) and Ali Troost (University of San Diego, Hemet, Calif.).
DeBruler, Fletemier, Lloyd, Murrey and Weber all were part of the 2009 U.S. Women's National A2 Program.
The players, all of whom have remaining collegiate eligibility for 2010, were selected as part of the U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts held Feb. 19-21 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. A record total of 175 athletes competed in the Open Tryout.
In addition, USA Volleyball has announced the coaching staff for the U.S. Women's National A2 Teams. University of Utah Head Coach Beth Launiere and University of Michigan Head Coach Mark Rosen will serve as head coaches for the program, while University of Virginia Assistant Coach Jill Kramer and LSU Assistant Coach Steve Loeswick will serve as assistant coaches for the program.
2010 U.S. Women's National A2 Program Roster
Rachael Adams (Texas, MB, 2, 6-2, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Kelsey Black (Texas A&M, OH, 2, 5-11, Amarillo, Texas)
Ellie Blankenship (Northern Iowa, L, 1, 5-10, Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
Alyssa Davis (Auburn, MB, 1, 6-5, Oakland Park, Fla.)
Laura DeBruler (Illinois, OH, 1, 5-10, Downers Grove, Ill.)
Kanani Danielson (Hawaii, OH, 2, 5-10, Ewa Beach, Hawaii)
Jen Doris (Texas, MB, 1, 6-5, Houston, Texas)
Whitney Dosty (Arizona, OH, 1, 6-3, Tucson, Ariz.)
Juliann Faucette (Texas, OH, 1, 6-2, San Diego, Calif.)
Lindsay Fletemier (Dayton, MB, 1, 6-6, Garden City, Mich.)
Nikki Fowler (Tennessee, OH, 1, 6-2, Dallas, Texas)
Laurie Gonzalez (Albany, L, 2, 5-9, Carolina, Puerto Rico)
Carli Lloyd (California-Berkeley, S, 1, 5-11, Bonsall, Calif.)
Ashley Mass (Iowa State, L, 1, 5-8, Muskego, Wis.)
Monique Mead (Georgia Tech, OPP, 3, 5-10, Newnan, Ga.)
Sabel Moffett (Northwestern, MB, 1, 6-0, Temecula, Calif.)
Kelly Murphy (Florida, S, 2, 6-2, Wilmington, Ill.)
Tarah Murrey (California-Berkeley, OH, 2, 6-3, El Cerrito, Calif.)
Dominique Olowolafe (Cal Poly, MB, 1, 6-1, Lansing, Mich.)
Juliane Piggott (UC Irvine, OH, 1, 6-2, Newport Beach, Calif.)
Evan Sanders (Colorado State, S, 2, 6-0, Lafayette, Colo.)
Ali Troost (San Diego, OPP, 1, 6-1, Hemet, Calif.)
Paige Weber (Arizona, S, 1, 5-9, Indianapolis, Ind.)
Sydney Yogi (Texas, L, 2, 5-2, Honolulu)
Head Coaches: Beth Launiere (University of Utah) and Mark Rosen (University of Michigan)
Assistant Coaches: Jill Kramer (University of Virginia) and Steve Loeswick (LSU)
Bio Sketches for 2010 U.S. Women's National A2 Program Roster
Carli Lloyd (California-Berkeley, S, 1, 5-11, Bonsall, Calif.), a two-time AVCA All-American, is the first three-time selection to the U.S. Women's National A2 Team roster. She averaged 11.24 assists last season and helped California to a .271 team attack efficiency with a 21-11 overall record. The Golden Bears reached the NCAA regional final before losing to eventual champion Penn State.
Kelly Murphy (Florida, S, 2, 6-2, Wilmington, Ill.), a 2009 AVCA All-America Second-Team pick, ranked third in the SEC in hitting with a .344 efficiency at Florida and seventh in assists with 7.04 per set in 2009. She hit better than .300 in 13 of her team's last 16 matches. Murphy was a dual threat in hitting and setting, as she added 2.92 kills, 2.22 digs and 0.58 blocks per set.
Evan Sanders (Colorado State, S, 2, 6-0, Lafayette, Colo.) set Colorado State to a .235 team hitting efficiency and 25-6 overall record during her sophomore season. She averaged 10.56 assists, 0.82 kills, 0.77 blocks and 2.04 digs per set. Sanders played a key in the Rams winning the Mountain West Conference and reaching the NCAA Division I Regional semifinal round.
Paige Weber (Arizona, S, 1, 5-9, Indianapolis, Ind.), a 2009 U.S. Women's National A2 Team selection, averaged 10.75 assists for Arizona last fall. She added 0.65 kills, 0.45 blocks, 2.09 digs and 0.28 aces per set. Weber helped the Wildcats to a 19-11 overall record, .231 team hitting efficiency and berth into the NCAA Division I Tournament.
Middle Blockers
Rachael Adams (Texas, MB, 2, 6-2, Cincinnati, Ohio) provided the Longhorns with a .486 attack efficiency while averaging 1.80 kills and 1.09 blocks per set in 2009 as Texas finished second in the NCAA. She started all 31 matches in her sophomore season.
Alyssa Davis (Auburn, MB, 1, 6-5, Oakland Park, Fla.) led Auburn with a .316 hitting efficiency as a junior last year. She averaged 0.66 blocks and 1.48 kills per set while playing in all 31 Tiger matches. Davis was second on the team in total blocks with 72 in 2009 while pounding a career-best 161 kills.
Jen Doris (Texas, MB, 1, 6-5, Houston, Texas) averaged 2.13 points as a junior in helping the Longhorns to a 29-2 overall record and second-place finish in the NCAA tournament. She produced a .366 hitting efficiency to go with 1.13 blocks per set.
Lindsay Fletemier (Dayton, MB, 1, 6-6, Garden City, Mich.), a member of the 2009 U.S. Women's National Team A2 Program, averaged 3.47 kills per set and posted a .389 hitting efficiency as a junior at Dayton last season. She was named AVCA All-America Third-Team in 2009 and was honored as the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year. Fletemeyer currently ranks eighth at Dayton with 1,223-career kills and fourth in block assists with 331.
Sabel Moffett (Northwestern, MB, 1, 6-0, Temecula, Calif.) earned AVCA All-America honorable mention after being named All-Big Ten. She started all 32 matches as a junior in 2009 compiling a school-record .349 hitting percentage. Moffett averaged 3.37 kills and 1.40 blocks per set last year as part of a 4.25 scoring average.
Dominique Olowolafe (Cal Poly, MB, 1, 6-1, Lansing, Mich.) hit for a .346 attack efficiency as a junior at Cal Poly in 2009. She averaged 2.35 kills and 0.68 blocks per set. Olowolafe, who was selected All-Big West First-Team for the second straight year, hit higher than .304 in 22 of Cal Poly's 29 matches last year.
Outside Hitters/Opposites
Kelsey Black (Texas A&M, OH, 2, 5-11, Amarillo, Texas) split time at outside hitter and libero for Texas A&M last fall as a sophomore. She averaged 1.35 kills with a .221 hitting efficiency, 0.36 blocks and 1.81 digs per set. Black's versatility helped the Aggies reach the NCAA Regional semifinals and finish with a 20-11 overall record.
Kanani Danielson (Hawaii, OH, 2, 5-10, Ewa Beach, Hawaii) was selected as a 2009 AVCA All-America First-Team pick after helping Hawaii reach the NCAA Division I Championship semifinals. She held a .314 hitting efficiency to go with averages of 4.23 kills, 2.32 digs and 0.62 blocks per set. Danielson took 28 percent of the offensive swings for Hawaii, which finished the season with a 32-3 record.
Laura DeBruler (Illinois, OH, 1, 5-10, Downers Grove, Ill.), a 2009 U.S. Women's National A2 Team member, earned AVCA All-America First-Team last year. She held a .300 hitting efficiency with averages of 4.46 kils, 0.56 blocks and 2.78 digs per set. DeBruler, who ranked second in the Big Ten in kills and 100 kills shy of setting the school career record, helped the Fighting Illini to a 26-6 overall record in 2009.
Whitney Dosty (Arizona, OH, 1, 6-3, Tucson, Ariz.) averaged 3.02 kills, 1.71 digs and 0.56 blocks per set in her junior season with Arizona last year. She was named to the All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention Team in 2009. Dosty helped the Wildcats reach the NCAA Division I tournament and a 19-11 season record.
Juliann Faucette (Texas, OH, 1, 6-2, San Diego, Calif.), who has trained and competed with the U.S. Women's National Team, averaged 3.17 kills, 0.71 blocks and 1.46 digs in 2009. She helped the Longhorns reach the NCAA title match in 2009. Faucette was named to the 2009 AVCA All-America Third-Team as a junior.
Nikki Fowler (Tennesse, Outside Hitter, 1, 6-2, Dallas, Texas) is a two-time AVCA All-American honorable mention and All-SEC First-Team selection. She finished last season with 16 consecutive double-doubles, leading the team ins kills per set (3.79) and points per set (4.48). Fowler has 1,256-career kills to rank 12th in Tennessee history.
Monique Mead (Georgia Tech, OPP, 3, 5-10, Newnan, Ga.) helped Georgia Tech to a 21-10 overall record in her freshman season. She averaged 3.07 kills, 0.78 blocks, 1.97 digs and 0.26 aces per set in her first collegiate season. Mead was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman of the Year and was an All-ACC First-Team pick.
Tarah Murrey (California-Berkeley, OH, 2, 6-3, El Cerrito, Calif.), a member of the 2009 U.S. Women's National A2 Team, averaged 3.27 points per set as a sophomore in 2009. She added averages of 2.83 kills, 0.24 aces, 2.25 digs and 0.54 blocks per set. Cal reached the NCAA regional final before losing to eventual champion Penn State.
Juliane Piggott (UC Irvine, OH, 1, 6-2, Newport Beach, Calif.), an AVCA All-American honorable mention in 2009, posted 353 kills for UCI last year and ranked 10th in the Big West with a 3.15 kill average. She was an All-Big West First-Team selection. Piggott also averaged 1.77 digs, 0.23 aces and 0.46 blocks per set in her junior season.
Ali Troost (San Diego, OPP, 1, 6-1, Hemet, Calif.) was named AVCA All-America Second Team in 2009 after helping San Diego to a 18-7 record. She was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year while hitting .315. Troost averaged 3.95 kills, 0.41 aces, 0.45 blocks and 1.86 digs per set for the Toreros as a junior in 2009.
Ellie Blankenship (Northern Iowa, L, 1, 5-10, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), a 2009 AVCA All-America honorable mention selection, led the Missouri Valley Conference and ranked fourth nationally with a 5.82 dig average last season. She was named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference First-Team. Blankenship is Northern Iowa's all-time dig leader despite having a year of eligibility left.
Ashley Mass (Iowa State, L, 1, 5-8, Muskego, Wis.) became Iowa State's first AVCA All-America First-Team pick after the 2009 season, the first libero to earn first-team designation since 2004. She led the Big 12 in digs per set with 5.49 and was 10th overall in the nation. Mass earned her second straight Big 12 Libero of the Year in 2009.
Laurie Gonzalez (Albany, L, 2, 5-9, Carolina, Puerto Rico), a member of the 2009 U.S. Women's National A2 Team program, has been selected for the program for the second consecutive season. She averaged 4.89 digs per set last fall at Albany. Gonzalez added 24 aces as part of a 0.25 ace average.
Sydney Yogi (Texas, L, 2, 5-2, Honolulu), a member of the 2006 and 2007 U.S. Girls' Youth National Team, averaged 1.88 digs per set as a defensive specialist as a sophomore. She helped the Longhorns finish second in the 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship. Yogi played in 89 of 104 sets for Texas last season.


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Spain: One in four is unemployedAugust 31, 2012: 11:23 AM ET
Spain suffered the highest level of joblessness in the eurozone in July, as overall unemployment in the region held steady at a record high.
One out of every four citizens in Spain is unemployed, according to the latest statistics from Eurostat. The situation is even worse for young Spaniards. The unemployment rate for those under 25 years old is now approaching 53%.
Spain has been dealing with high unemployment for years. The nation's jobless rate has been above 20% since May 2010, according to data from the European Central Bank. In July, the rate rose to 25.1%.
The Spanish economy slipped back into recession during the first quarter and activity has continued to deteriorate. Spanish gross domestic product declined 0.4% in the second quarter.
Related: Spanish economy shrinks
Spain's woes stem largely from a major property bust a few years ago that left the nation's banks saddled with a mountain of bad debt. Spain has requested up to €100 billion in loans from the eurozone bailout fund to recapitalize solvent banks, while insolvent banks will be consolidated in a so-called bad bank.
Meanwhile, the Spanish government has seen its borrowing costs surge to unsustainable levels as investors in the international bond markets worry it may need to be bailed out. The yield on Spanish 2-year notes rose above 6% in July before falling back in August.
Spain is also dealing with a growing number of regional governments that need to be rescued. This week, Catalonia became the latest region to officially ask for help from the €18 billion fund Madrid set up to aid its 17 autonomous regions.
The troubles in Spain have raised worries that the government could have its credit rating cut to junk status by one of the global credit rating agencies. Moody's said Thursday that its review of Spain's credit rating, which it launched in June, will continue through the end of September.
Of course, Spain is not the only eurozone nation struggling with high unemployment.
Related: Everything you need to know about where things stand
In Greece, unemployment rose to 23.1% in May, the most recent month for which data were available. Cyprus also saw its unemployment rate edge up to 10.9% in July from 10.6% the month before.
Overall, the unemployment rate for the 17-nation eurozone held steady at 11.3% in July, with an estimated 18 million people out of work, according to Eurostat. That's up from 15.9 million in July 2011.


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Sentencing For Jackson Jr., Wife Set For August
A federal judge has set a new sentencing date for former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman in Washington, D.C., scheduled the hearing for Aug. 14.
Jackson pleaded guilty this year to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, including mounted elk heads and a gold-plated Rolex watch. His wife, former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson, pleaded guilty to filing false joint tax returns.
They had been scheduled for sentencing Wednesday. But Berman postponed the hearing on Monday to accommodate the court.
Jackson is the son of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. He resigned his office in November, citing health problems.
Jackson faces a maximum five-year prison term. He also must repay the $750,0 and could face other financial penalties.


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White Spots on Gold
Q. I have a problem with whitish-colored spots on my gold plate after the plating process. SEM analysis shows residuals of sodium. Any idea where we produce sodium? The process we use is nickel-gold-tin. —G.S.
A. Typically, a white colored gold deposit is caused by excess nickel in your plating bath. Since your SEM analysis indicates sodium residuals and not nickel, we have to assume that the sodium salts are coming from your rinse water or sodium salts used in your plating process.
Without additional information on the exact process you are using, I would suggest the following steps to find your source of sodium salts:
1. Check the quality of rinse water used in your rinsing process.
2. Check the quality of water used to make up your process baths.
3. Review the formulation of your process bath chemistries to determine if sodium salts are used in the formulation.
If any of these steps indicate the presence of sodium salts, you have your culprit and now must reduce or eliminate it.
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Psychomotor Patterning: A Critical Look
Steven Novella, M.D.
In the 1960s, psychomotor patterning was proposed as a new treatment modality for people with mental retardation, brain injury, learning disabilities, and other cognitive maladies. The method was subjected to controlled trials and found to be of no value. It was debated in the scientific literature up until the early 1970s, when the scientific medical community arrived at the consensus that is should be discarded as a false concept with no therapeutic role. Its use, however, has not stopped.
The concept of patterning was invented by Glenn Doman and C. Delacato and is therefore often referred to as the Doman-Delacato technique [1]. Their theories are primarily an extension of the outdated concept that ontogeny (the stages through which organisms develop from single cell to maturity) recapitulates phylogeny (the evolutionary history of the species). Thus the neurodevelopmental stages of crawling, creeping, crude walking, and mature walking through which normal children develop is directly related to the amphibian, reptilian, and mammalian evolutionary human ancestors [2].
Doman and Delacato postulated that mental retardation represents a failure of the individual to develop through the proper phylogenetic stages. Their treatment modality supposedly stimulates proper development of these stages, each of which must be mastered before progress can be made to the next stage. This stimulation is done through what they call "patterning," in which the patient moves repeatedly in the manner of the current stage. In the "homolateral crawling" stage, for instance, patients crawl by turning their head to one side while flexing the arm and leg of that side and extending the arm and leg of the opposite side. Patients who are unable to execute this exercise by themselves are passively moved in this manner by 4-5 adults, alternating back and forth in a smooth manner. This must be repeated for at least 5 minutes, 4 times per day. This exercise is intended to impose the proper "pattern" onto the central nervous system. In the full treatment program, the exercises are combined with sensory stimulation, breathing exercises intended to increase oxygen flow to the brain, and a program of restriction and facilitation intended to promote hemispheric dominance [3]. Advocates claim that patterning enables mentally retarded and brain injured children to achieve improved, and even normal, development in the areas of visuo-spatial tasks, motor coordination, social skills, and intellect. They also claim to promote superior development in a normal child [4].
The theoretical basis of psychomotor patterning is therefore based on two primary principles, the recapitulationist theory of ontogeny and phylogeny, and the belief that passive movements can influence the development and structure of the brain. As Delacato stated in 1963:
Man has evolved phylogenetically in a known pattern. The ontogenetic development of normal humans in general recapitulates that phylogenetic process. We have been able to take children who deviate from normal development (severe brain injured) and through the extrinsic imposition of normal patterns of movement and behavior have been able to neurologically organize them sufficiently so that they can be placed within a human developmental pattern of crawling, creeping, and walking [3].
Medical treatments are evaluated on two criteria, their theoretical basis and their empirical value. The scientific community has rejected patterning on both counts. By the 1960s, it became clear that recapitulation it is based on an incorrect linear concept of evolution. Evolutionary lines continuously branch and deviate, forming a complex bush of relationships, not a linear ladder of descent. Embryological development does not reflect the mature stages of other distant branches of this evolutionary bush. Studying the embryology of the developing fetus also does not reveal any evidence of successive stages reflecting past evolutionary ancestors.
There is also no theoretical basis for the belief that patterns can be impressed upon the developing cortex. Brain development is genetically driven and involves a complex sequence of cell growth, migration, organization, and even programmed cell death. Abnormalities in this process can be caused by genetic flaws, toxic insults, infection, or biochemical abnormalities. There is no model by which any of these disparate causes can be influenced by passive, or even active, movement of the neck and limbs. Thirty years of subsequent neurological, embryological, and medical progress have failed to lend any theoretical or clinical support for Doman and Delacato's principles.
Their use of breathing exercises to promote oxygen delivery to the brain also lacks an acceptable theoretical basis. The brain and the cardiovascular system are designed to give highest priority to oxygen flow to the brain cells. Elaborate and powerful feedback mechanisms ensure adequate delivery. It is true that carbon dioxide retention, in this case achieved through breathing techniques, does increase blood flow to the brain. There is absolutely no reason to believe, however, that this helps the developing brain.
In 1982, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a position statement concluding that "patterning" has no special merit, that its proponents' claims are unproven, and that the demands on families are so great that in some cases there may be actual harm in its use. The National Down Syndrome Congress endorsed this statement and displayed it on its Web site for several years [5].
Of course, if clinical evidence could demonstrate that patterning improves neurological development, it would be still accepted and used. Many mainstream interventions lack a fully understood theoretical basis. Physicians are, at their heart, practical individuals, and if something works, it works. They require proof, however, that an intervention does indeed work and is safe.
On this score, patterning has just not delivered. During approximately ten years in the late 60s and early 70s, dozens of clinical trials compared groups of developmentally delayed children given patterning treatment to comparable who received no treatment but similar amounts of attention [2,6-8]. None confirmed the claims of Doman and Delacato. Some found modest improvements in motor or visuo-spatial skills, but none showed improved intellectual development. The few positive studies were neither impressive nor reproducible. Eventually, such clinical trials stopped and the scientific community abandoned the technique as a blind alley.
The tragedy of this story does not stem from the fact that patterning is a failed theory. It is regrettable that patterning did not deliver as promised, for any legitimate treatment for brain injured and retarded children would be most welcome. The real tragedy began, however, when Doman and Delacato released their claims for a new dramatic treatment before their theories had been scientifically validated. This behavior, similar to the "cold fusion" fiasco, is more than just professionally irresponsible. In physics, such behavior is merely bad form; when dealing with the desperate parents of brain injured children, it should be considered cruel. Doman and Delacato were widely criticized for publicizing their unsubstantiated claims and giving false hope to vulnerable parents and their afflicted children.
The saga, however, did not end with the scientific death of patterning. Doman, Delacato, and their associates incorporated the patterning technique into their program at the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP), which was established in Philadelphia in the 1950s and still operates today. A second facility, the National Academy of Child Development (NACD) in Huntsville, Utah, offers patterning as part of their treatment program. The NACD is run by Robert Doman, the nephew of Glenn Doman, although both institutions state that there is no association between the two.
On August 8, 1996, NBC aired a program titled "Miracle Babies," hosted by Kathy Lee Gifford. The program included a segment portraying an apparent "miracle cure" of a child suffering from moderate mental retardation. As is typical of the lay media, Kathy Lee provided an emotionally appealing view of patterning without even a hint of skepticism. The segment did bring out the desperateness of the parents. They were clearly devastated, as any parents would be, by the need to finally accept that their child was not developing normally. In their desperation, they sought any possible hope, and it was offered to them by the IAHP. The hope that they purchased, however, came at a heavy price, both financial and emotional.
The IAHP and the NACD both rely heavily on the family as the primary deliverers of the patterning treatment. In order to even reach the stage where their child can be enrolled into the aggressive treatment program, they must first complete a training and evaluation course that begin with purchasing and listening to a set of audiotapes. The IAHP states in their literature that only the most dedicated and capable parents will make it to the final stage of treatment. The NACD appears less demanding, but follows the same principle. The program requires families to alter their lives to institute a daily program of patterning exercises, breathing exercises, and sensory stimulation. The mother interviewed by Kathy Lee stated that the program was so demanding that it dominated her life, resulting in emotional and physical exhaustion.
The program also illuminated another important feature of the patterning phenomenon, the difference between anecdotal and scientific evaluation of its effectiveness. Most children, even severely mentally retarded children, still grow and develop, although more slowly than average. Therefore, any child admitted into any treatment program will make some progress as an inevitable consequence of time and their natural development, even if that treatment program is completely worthless. Without adequate controls, it is therefore impossible to evaluate any such treatment. Of course, Kathy Lee and the parents of the child on the program reported remarkable progress. Whether or not the treatments played any role, however, cannot be known. The viewers, however, were encouraged to believe that they had witnessed a miracle cure.
NACD and IAHP literature both caution that individual results will vary. It also implies that if the patient fails to make significant progress, the parents are to blame. The NACD also embraces other scientifically questionable practices. Its Web site offers the following screening test for "food sensitivities":
Check the following list. If three or more apply to your child, food sensitivity may be a problem:
Although the problems listed above undoubtedly have a number of possible causes, food sensitivities must be considered as one of the most likely [9].
Food sensitivties have no proven relationship to behavior, and most of the above symptoms are not related to food sensitivity. The NACD has also offered a consultation with an "orthomolecular physician" and a "holistic nutritionist." Such practitioners are clearly outside of the scientific mainstream.
Current AAP Position
Reacting to promotion through the media, the American Academy of Pediatrics published an updated review in 1999 that it reaffirmed in 2006. This review concludes:
Treatment programs that offer patterning remain unfounded; ie, they are based on oversimplified theories, are claimed to be effective for a variety of unrelated conditions, and are supported by case reports or anecdotal data and not by carefully designed research studies. In most cases, improvement observed in patients undergoing this method of treatment can be accounted for based on growth and development, the intensive practice of certain isolated skills, or the nonspecific effects of intensive stimulation.
Physicians and therapists need to remain aware of the issues in the controversy over this specific treatment and the available evidence. On the basis of past and current analyses, studies, and reports, the AAP concludes that patterning treatment continues to offer no special merit, that the claims of its advocates remain unproved, and that the demands and expectations placed on families are so great that in some cases their financial resources may be depleted substantially and parental and sibling relationships could be stressed [10].
The Bottom Line
The Doman-Delacato patterning technique is premised on a bankrupt and discarded theory and has failed when tested under controlled conditions. Its promotion with unsubstantiated claims can cause significant financial and emotional damage. Such claims can instill false hope in many people who are already plagued by guilt and depression, setting them up for a further disappointment, guilt, and feelings of inadequacy. The process can also waste their time, energy, emotion, and money. These resources may be taken away from their children. Parents can also be distracted from dealing with the situation in other practical ways and coping psychologically as a family with the reality of having a brain-injured or mentally retarded child. Parents are encouraged, in fact, to remain in a state of denial while they are pursuing a false cure.
- Doman RJ, Spitz EB, Zucman E, Delacato CH, Doman G. Children with severe brain injuries: Neurologic organization in terms of mobility. JAMA 174:257, 1960.
- Cohen HJ, Birch HG, Taft LT. Some considerations for evaluating the Doman-Delacato "Patterning" method. Pediatrics 45:302- 14, 1970.
- Delacato CH. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Speech and Reading Problems. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1963.
- Doman G, Delacato CH. Train your baby to be a genius. McCall's magazine, March 1965, p 65.
- American Academy of Pediatrics. Policy statement: The Doman-Delacato treatment of neurologically handicapped children. Pediatrics 70:810-812, 1982.
- Neman R and others. Experimental experimental evaluation of sensorimotor patterning used with mentally retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency 79:372-84, 1975.
- Ziegler E, Victoria S. On "An experimental evaluation of sensorimotor patterning": A Critique. American Journal of Mental Deficiency 79:483-92, 1975.
- Freeman RD. Controversy over "patterning" as a treatment for brain damage in children. JAMA 202:83-86, 1967.
- Doman RJ. Food sensitivities: The hidden problems. Journal of the National Academy of Child Development 4(2): 1984.
- Committee on Children with Disabilities. The treatment of neurologically impaired children using patterning. Pediatrics 104:1149-1151, 1999. Reaffirmed Jan 2006.
Dr. Novella, a member of Quackwatch's advisory board, is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine and president of The New England Skeptical Society. This article is adapted from an article in The Connecticut Skeptic, Vol. 1 Issue 4, Fall 1996.
This article was revised on February 9, 2008.


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Amy Heckerling, the has-been director of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "Clueless" and some other shit, has signed on to direct the vampire romantic comedy "Vamps", about "two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immort....", oh shit, sorry, I just got my period all over the place. And on the day I chose to wear white pants!
Notorious schillers Bloody Disgusting have proclaimed that no-hit wonder Richard Kelly's "The Box" is "sure to deliver in more ways than one". I learned this after trying to figure out how to close the annoying, full-screen roll-over ad for the damn movie, with absolutely no success. I ended up just opening another window to look at another site as the trailer continued to screen without any hope of skipping it. I think that, right now, we should all get on our knees and thank Eric and Mark for creating a website with no roll-over ads, pop-up ads or reviews based on how much the advertisers pay us. On the other hand, DRINK PEPSI, THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION!


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Ellis spoils Nowitzki's 20-20 game, Bucks top Mavs
Milwaukee snaps 3-game losing streak
Monta Ellis scored 22 points, and the Milwaukee Bucks spoiled Dirk Nowitzki's first game in nearly 10 years with at least 20 points and 20 rebounds with a 95-90 victory against the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.
Ellis twice put the Bucks ahead in the final 2 minutes, the last time on a jumper for a 92-90 lead with 1:03 remaining.
Nowitzki had 21 points and 20 rebounds for the Mavericks, who had two chances after Ellis' go-ahead basket. Vince Carter, who was 0 of 8 from the field, missed a 3-pointer and Darren Collison's wild shot on a drive wasn't close.
Nowitzki's last 20-20 game was April 3, 2003, against the Los Angeles Lakers, when he had 25 points and 22 boards.
J.J. Redick, playing his second game in Dallas in six days but in a different uniform after he was traded from Orlando to Milwaukee, had nine points at halftime, tied with Mike Dunleavy for the team lead, and finished 14. Dunleavy had 13.
The Mavericks had four chances to break an 88-88 tie with less than 3 minutes left, but Nowitzki turned it over after three straight misses and offensive rebounds.
O.J. Mayo, who had eight points on 2-of-9 shooting while Kobe Bryant dominated with 38 in the Lakers' win Sunday, had 18 points.
The loss dropped the Mavericks, who have made the playoffs 12 straight years, five games behind Houston for the final postseason berth in the Western Conference. Dallas has 26 games remaining.
The Mavericks went on an 8-0 run to finish the third quarter and erase what was Milwaukee's biggest lead to the point - four. Elton Brand had a pair of jumpers and Nowitzki and Mayo had one apiece while the Bucks went the last 4 minutes of the quarter without scoring.
The last six minutes of the first half were a series of runs that ended with Dallas leading 49-44. Led by six from Brandan Wright, the Mavericks went on a 14-2 spurt for a 41-31 lead before the Bucks scored 10 straight to pull even.
Dallas went on an 8-0 run started by two buckets from Darren Collison, who led the Mavericks with 11 points and four assists before halftime, but Dunleavy hit a 3-pointer with 2 seconds left to pull the Bucks within five.
The Bucks missed their first six shots and committed three turnovers while Dallas was building an 11-0 lead, but the Mavericks gave it back with an equally inept stretch bridging the first and second quarters.
The Mavericks went 5 minutes without a basket from late in the first quarter to early in the second before the drought ended when Nowitzki grabbed one of his 11 first-half rebounds for a layup after three Dallas misses.
Drew Gooden, who hadn't played in six games and sat out 15 of the previous 16, had eight points in the first half for the Bucks, one shy of his season high. He was the Milwaukee TV crew's choice for the halftime interview.
NOTES: The Bucks suspended C Samuel Dalembert for the Dallas game for an unspecified violation of team policy. He was relegated to a backup role after the emergence of Larry Sanders, although he did have 35 points, a career high, and 12 rebounds off the bench Feb. 5 against Denver. ... Mavericks G Anthony Morrow played just the final 3.9 seconds in Sunday's loss to the Lakers, his first game in uniform after coming over in a deadline trade with Atlanta. He got in the first quarter against the Bucks, and was 0 of 2 from the field in 3:41. ... Nowitzki drew a duck and a scowl from Dallas coach Rick Carlisle when an errant baseball pass on an inbound play flew over Carlisle's head out of bounds for a turnover 29 seconds into the game. ... The Bucks went into the game with three straight losses by three points or fewer, just the third time that's happened in franchise history.


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North ROK euphoria fizzlesJune 6th, 2013
Colorado Resources' results fall short of phenomenal but the area play looks resilient
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Despite additional intercepts of wide mineralization, June 6 assays from Colorado Resources TSXV:CXO failed to meet soaring hopes set by North ROK's very first hole. That northwestern British Columbia discovery excited anticipation of a project comparable to Imperial Metals' TSX:III Red Chris project, 15 kilometres east. But while Colorado's stock has since suffered, a still-strong market cap and recent activity by other companies suggest the area play may yet endure.
The June 6 announcement gave results for three holes, with NR13-003 showing:
- 0.21% copper and 0.55 grams per tonne gold over 152.4 metres, starting at 1.2 metres in downhole depth
- (including 0.31% copper and 1.04 g/t gold over 52 metres).
NR13-003 was drilled at a -80 degree dip towards the northeast from the same location as discovery hole NR13-001, which was sunk at a -45 degree dip in the same direction. NR13-004 was drilled 100 metres southeast of the discovery hole, showing:
- 0.4% copper and 0.5 g/t gold over 205.2 metres, starting at 158.8 metres
- (including 0.56% copper and 0.68 g/t gold over 131 metres).
True widths weren't available. Hole NR13-002, drilled 350 metres west of the discovery hole, found no significant results. The company stated it "may have not been drilled deep enough or at the correct azimuth to adequately test the IP chargeability anomaly that is now better understood with the new detailed geophysics."
Ongoing induced polarization surveys have so far shown an area 1,200 by 1,200 metres open to the south of the chargeability anomaly where the holes were drilled. The survey also found an area 500 by 1,000 metres open to the north of another chargeability anomaly one kilometre north of the drill holes. "To date less than 5% of the area of these geophysical anomalies has been tested by drilling," the company stated. "Given these highly encouraging results and better understanding of the system, Colorado is planning an expanded drill program to commence shortly."
Evidently investors expected better. The discovery hole reported April 25 produced a market-shattering 0.51% copper and 0.67 g/t gold over 333 metres, starting at 2 metres. That included a 242-metre interval of 0.63% copper and 0.85 g/t gold.
All that from the very first hole. Fuelling the excitement was Red Chris, only 15 kilometres away, where Imperial Metals' open pit is scheduled for production in mid-2014. The project boasts reserves of 301 million tonnes averaging 0.359% copper and 0.274 g/t gold.
Consequently North ROK rocketed Colorado stock from an April 24 close of $0.16 to a May 21 high of $1.74. But by June 6 the shares opened on $1.17, down from a June 5 high of $1.34, then continued to fall. The stock closed June 6 on $0.80, albeit an improvement over the day's low of $0.66 and far above the pre-discovery $0.16.
Disappointment notwithstanding, the area play may yet have a busy summer in store. Other companies attracted by the region's porphyry copper-gold potential include Entourage Metals TSXV:EMT, which on June 3 announced its 100% option on the 6,499-hectare Odin copper-gold property, 22 kilometres north of North ROK and 35 kilometres from Red Chris.
The same day Victory Ventures TSXV:VVN announced drilling had begun on its 448-hectare Copau property, 11 kilometres northeast of Red Chris, to test a prospective IP anomaly.
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I am dumbfounded!
Adobe has a dry press release, Mike Chambers provides some thoughtful commentary, and Mark Cantor spews some bile on the proceedings. Om Malik and Genuine VC cover the business angle. Slashdotters and Metafites have various opinions, as usual. Ross Mayfield also has a nice summary.
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I have nothing useful to say about this, except that I've worked at companies going through complex buy-outs, acquisitions, mergers, etc: it's ALWAYS a distraction, it always slows things down.
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