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Mark Sanford: The new comeback kid
Mark Sanford is headed back to Congress after trouncing Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch with 54 percent of the votes, a 9 percentage point victory that dashed predictions of a close race.
The big victory Tuesday suggests First Congressional District voters cared more about a consistent voice for limited government and no new spending than transgressions that seemed certain to torpedo Sanford's political career four years ago.
Charleston businesswoman Colbert Busch received 45 percent of the vote while Green Party candidate Eugene Platt took less than 1 percent.
The former governor and congressman took all five counties that comprise the district. In Beaufort County, Sanford won nearly 53 percent to Colbert Busch's nearly 47 percent.
"I want to acknowledge a God not just of second chances," Sanford said in his victory speech in Charleston, referring to his first TV ad in which he asked voters to support him despite his past problems. "But a God of third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth chances because that is the reality of our shared humanity."
On the campaign trail, Sanford successfully touted his work to cut government spending and his votes against projects he deemed worthy, if he disagreed with the way they were to be funded, as proof that he had never let taxpayers down. Meanwhile, he successfully jabbed Colbert Busch, casting her as a wishy-washy ally of unions, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other national Democrats who would follow their agenda.
Colbert Busch touted her business experience and cast Sanford as an untrustworthy politician who had voted against important economic development projects, including the expansion of the Charleston port.
"My only pledge was to the people of the First District, and I respect your decision," Colbert Busch said in brief remarks Tuesday.
Many voters said it was Sanford's record of looking out for taxpayers while he was in Congress for three terms and governor for two terms that convinced them to support the Charleston Republican.
"He's not perfect by any means," said voter Paul Good of Bluffton. "But he's been in office before and he did a good job for South Carolina."
The personal issues, he said, were ultimately personal and did not factor into his decision-making.
"Otherwise, we get a Democrat and every time Democrats get in office, they won't quit spending and they won't stop with the entitlements," Good said.
Roberta Harris of Sun City said Sanford's efforts to connect Colbert Busch with Pelosi and other national Democrats who have contributed generously to her campaign proved effective.
"There's something about when they brought up the name Nancy Pelosi," Harris said. "We don't need more of that kind of thinking here."
And trespassing allegations made by Sanford's ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, seemed to backfire with some voters.
"When I heard about that I thought these people are grasping at straws. That turned me off," Harris said.
Mark Sanford is due in Family Court Thursday to answer allegations that he entered his ex-wife's home, violating their divorce agreement. Jenny Sanford has said it is a pattern of repeated behavior. Mark Sanford has said he was watching the second half of the Super Bowl with the couple's youngest son.
The campaign generated high interest, especially in Beaufort County where 33 percent of voters turned out, exceeding the typical 10 to 12 percent turnout for special elections, said Scott Marshall, the county's top election official.
A similarly high turnout of 34 percent was seen in Charleston County.
The two counties comprise the largest percent of voters in the district.
Still, a substantial number of Colbert Busch supporters in Beaufort County said in interviews Tuesday they were voting against Sanford more than supporting Colbert Busch because they were disgusted with Sanford's personal life.
"I'm voting more in protest of him than anything else," said Bob Malito of Sun City, who cast a vote for Colbert Busch. "If someone loses the trust of the people by what they've done — and he has done that by behavior that makes him irredeemable for public office — then we must vote in a way that reflects that."
John Johns of Bluffton didn't want to vote for Sanford but didn't want to support Colbert Busch either. At the last minute, he cast his ballot for Green Party candidate Eugene Platt.
"I didn't feel like I had another choice," he said.


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Sixth-annual Ride of the Penguins brings shenanigans to Vail Mountain
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For more information on the event and additional photos from previous rides, visit www.facebook.com/rideofthepenguins.
I reach into the back of the closet and pull out the plastic tub full of costumes. It's at the bottom, under a heap of furry capes from Ullr Fest, Mardi Gras beads, remnants of past Halloweens and bits and pieces from failed attempts at pond skimming. I know it's there, rumpled black and white.
Once I retrieve it, I pull the costume over my ski gear and catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror — black flippers, yellow beak, red bowtie.
I'm a penguin.
It's a not-so-secret identity that I have been assuming every March for the past five years in honor of Vail's Ride of the Penguins, a day when I join a flock of friends in celebration of the brief reprieve between Presidents Day weekend and the coming spring break crowds.
Roots of the ride
Ride of the Penguins was born one fateful day when co-conspirators Jody Petit and Aaron Beard were riding a chairlift at Vail.
"We said, how great would it be to ride up a chairlift as a guest and see penguins doing spins in the park?" Petit said.
The original plan was to make a movie of penguin-suited skiers and snowboarders romping around the mountain and through the terrain parks, an attempt to bring the fun back to Vail's increasingly stuffy reputation, Petit said. I didn't witness the first gathering, and the video hasn't recently surfaced, but the concept of flightless birds flocking down Born Free and soaring over the Lodgepole gap caught on, so six years later, here we are.
"Who wouldn't want to ski in a penguin suit?" said Alex Maffuccio, of Eagle-Vail, as she sipped a cocktail at the home-base bar, El Sabor, in Lionshead. Maffuccio joined the waddle for the first time this season, along with her roommate, Trapper Payne.
"It's a bunch of down-to-earth, really nice people," Payne said of his fellow penguins.
Petit said there are a few loosely enforced rules to participating.
"If you have a penguin suit and you move away, you should leave it for the next person or wear it wherever you are," he said, citing a few wayward penguins that were planning to surf in their costumes in San Diego in solidarity.
The size of the colony fluctuates from year to year, as newbies arrive in the Vail Valley, old friends depart and penguin wannabes from around the country — and multiple foreign countries — plan their vacations around the event. Ryan "Beaner" Blanchett, a friend from Petit's hometown of Detroit, said after seeing photos of the ride on Facebook year after year, he finally planned his annual ski trip to Vail to coincide with it.
"It's exactly what I thought it would be," he said. "A bunch of penguins skiing and snowboarding — it's like Halloween for grown-ups. I'm excited to see us all go down the mountain and see the reactions on people's faces."
The cause is just because
A group of around 60 penguins — and various other characters who have shown up over the years, such as sharks, flamingos, Teletubbies and Sea World-style penguin wranglers, complete with buckets of fish — is pretty hard to miss on the mountain. Penguins have handed out stickers and candy, posed for photos, scooted around the Lionshead skating rink with a gaggle of children and occasionally ridden in support of various charities.
But there's really only one answer to the most commonly asked question: Why are you doing this?
"It's just a fun day," Petit said. "Not for any reason, not because we have to, just straight-up fun. It's that one day people look forward to, a nice break to hit the reset button."
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According to a report by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, residents on Buena Vista Drive at Moody Road and Page Mill Road are asking for a stop sign — or some other traffic mediation — so they can make safe left turns onto their street off Page Mill Road.
I think that's a bad idea and probably a stop sign here doesn't qualify based on road design standards. There can't be more than eight or so houses on Buena Vista, but they're big houses and their occupants have gotten the attention of local officials.
My suggestion is to add a large mirror so that motorists, and cyclists for that matter, can see what's coming around the corner when turning left onto Moody Road.
The signs erected here in the past few weeks ("keep right") serve no useful purpose, but they do cause confusion. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will take up the issue on September 27.


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PHOENIX - Emmert International agreed to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that charged the company harassed and retaliated against employees in violation of federal law, the EEOC announced today.
The EEOC's lawsuit, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Emmert Industrial Corp., d/b/a Emmert International, No. 2:11-CV-00920CW, charged Emmert International with harassing Jonathan Redmon and John Brainich during Emmert's work on the Odd Fellows Hall project in Salt Lake City. The lawsuit alleged that the foreman and other Emmert employees repeatedly harassed Redmon and Brainich. Emmert's foreman and employees regularly used the "n-word," called Redmon "boy," called Brainich a "n---- lover," and made racial jokes and comments. The EEOC also alleged that Emmert International retaliated against Redmon for complaining about the harassment.
Racial harassment and retaliation violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The 24- month consent decree settling the suit, entered by Judge Clark Waddoups, requires Emmert International to pay $180,000 to Redmon and Brainich, provide training to its staff on unlawful employment discrimination, and to review and revise its policies on workplace discrimination. The decree also requires Emmert International to post notices explaining federal laws against workplace discrimination.
"Egregious racial harassment and retaliation are against the law, and employers must know that this type of conduct cannot be tolerated," EEOC Phoenix Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill said. "We are pleased with the resolution of this case, and we are hopeful that this agreement will help highlight the need to prevent discrimination in the workplace going forward."
EEOC Phoenix District Director Rayford O. Irvin said, "Employees everywhere should know that they do not have to tolerate racial harassment and that employees cannot be punished for standing up to this kind of unlawful harassment."
The EEOC's Phoenix District has jurisdiction over Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and part of New Mexico. The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its
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Google's Go-To-Market Strategy: Horrible
Sometimes having too many smart people with a singular focus in a room can hurt you. I'm beginning to believe this is the case at Google; too many PhD's in mathematics and computer science, not enough marketers in the room who don't have any skin in the game. Someone who can be objective about what they see and the best way to capitalize it. It seems that Google just never gets it.
Enter the + (And Everything Else Google Launched Yesterday)
Google + made its appearance to the world yesterday. I haven't used it and can't speak to it. What I can speak to is the unveiling strategy of Google+ and how oddly familiar it is to Google Wave's introduction. And, if we're keeping score on this one, I was right about Google Wave in the end. As Danny Sullivan said yesterday:
Product List and Reading Materials from 6-28-2011
Because Google pushed so much out the door yesterday, it's hard to keep track of everything that surfaced. I'm not even sure this is a complete list, but there are some very interesting things that happened yesterday.
- Google+
- Google Swiffy
- Google What Do You Love (WDYL) Search
- Google's Aesthetic New Black Toolbar
- Google Places New Look
Whew. That's an awful lot of stuff to throw at the wall, especially in one day. While everyone is phreaking on Google+, quietly Google put out an awesome resource of Swiffy, converting SWF files to HTML 5. And the changes to the Google Places page is very interesting too, along with the toolbar change.
Throwing Crap Against the Wall
I think even hack, unseasoned marketers know that's probably not the best way to introduce products to market place or the public. It's the, forgive the language here, "Shit Stick" method. You throw as much shit at the wall as you can, and see what sticks and holds. For company that has, what seems to be, an unlimited marketing and product development budget, I guess this can be successful.
I'd argue that it makes more fiscal sense, as well as marketing sense, to develop one or two great ideas and create an intriguing, solid go-to-market strategy. But, you say, that's what Google did with Google Wave.
Google Can't Market Worth a Damn
Say "STOP" when this sounds familiar: groundbreaking product, huge hype (over-hype), limited admission (huge bottleneck) in order to create the appearance of exclusivity disguised as "slow testing", and little to no mention from anyone outside the tech and search industry. Wow, that's exactly what Google Wave was. But, it's also Google+'s entry into the market place. It has the same scent as Google Wave, same short-sidedness as Google Wave, and nearly the same go-to-market strategy as Google Wave.
Marketing to the Technological Elite Isn't a Great General Marketing Strategy
Can Google please hire just one marketer to sit in these "product launch" meetings? You know, someone who knows a little bit of something about the general populous, societal behavior, and how to get people into using a product? Because Google hasn't done it right, again. Unless of course, they only want the tech and search community to use the tool?
What Google is trying to do is get people who don't need Google+ to use it. And the best way to do that is to explain the benefit and the need to general populous. Not to the people who will use it anyway. They market this product to the people who, for the most part, are fluent in technology and not to folks that aren't. And that, people, is how scores are kept: can you make this product attractive to someone who doesn't need it (right now) and make them use it? That is where market saturation is reached. They've got it backwards: Google markets to the technological elite and savvy and hopes it filters down to the general public.
And, if Google ties employee bonuses to social product success, as reported by Geekosystem, then their products will consistently fail. Yes, that's an attractive carrot to dangle; however, in my opinion, people only work just hard enough to achieve bonus levels. Meaning, the initial push should secure the bonus and then no one has to care.
Sacrificing the Core for The Next Big Thing?
Dave Winer's post "Google Yawn" is an interesting one, and I think it hits home the point: killing who you are and what you do to be everything to everyone. I don't know how Google+ will shake out because I haven't used it. I hope it succeeds, I really do. But, if you're asking me based on the go-to-market strategy, then I say it has a very slim chance of survival past 9 months. Google product launches are nothing more, to me, than a big, expensive firework: huge explosion, flashy presentation, loud noises, and they fizzle away into oblivion.


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The Healthy Families program model was recently identified as an effective program by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Nate Montana continues to get chances to impress his father's former team.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday that Montana, the son of Joe, worked out at the 49ers' one-day rookie minicamp Friday in Santa Clara. He also participated in a pro day for the 49ers and attended the team's rookie minicamp on a tryout basis on May 10-12.
Nate Montana is a long shot to go with the 49ers into training camp, much less make their roster or practice squad. But the former backup at Pasadena City College, Notre Dame and the University of Montana has received something from the 49ers that no other NFL team was willing to give: a chance.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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I thought they were still trying to find the 24 million emails from the George W Bush Presidency.
Always amazed at the US political scene (and the most ardent supporters) pee'ing all over each other rather than running the country. If an anti establishment figure emerges without Trump's trail of destruction (from either side), they'll easily win in 2020. Just a question of who susses it first.
Thames Valley Police here in the UK offer body cameras to officers. A friend of my sons is in the force, and he says that most officers request them voluntarily and leave them switched on by default.
He says that folks he's engaged with tend to be less assertive when they know everything is being recorded. He also says it makes any physical contact he has to enact is much more carefully considered and executed.
Overall, cools everyone down then. Being able to turn it off is not a good thing...
Police here dont carry firearms, so YMMV.
... as Illumina was a fairly large shareholder of Oxford Nanopore until fairly recently
I think of two brilliant examples. Some time ago, Clare Enders (who was Strategy Director of EMI Music earlier in her career) wrote an analysis of Napster - back when it was being sued to death - looking at the end result if it was left alone. Conclusion was that increased exposure in the music industry benefited every single constituent in that industry with one sole exception; the top 10 acts of each of the top 5 record labels. 50 people (or small groups) worldwide.
Recently Paul McCartney tried to justify increased copyright terms by saying he feared for the new artist trying to make a living. This is factual bullshit and in fact completely self serving - just like this Qualcomm inference that they care about 'the little guy'.
Lies, damned lies, statistics and false controversies...
They ought to do what no rag does (as none of them has sense of ethics nor the balls to ever do it): To publish a retraction with headline and copy in the same font size, and on the same page, as the original lies.
Remember the phrase every English football fan knows when the National team is playing Germany and leading in extra time: it ain't over until it's over.
It's a great shame; the European Courts had been on quite a good roll until they screwed up on this one. See: http://www.ianwaring.com/2014/07/05/european-courts-have-been-great-just-one-fumble-to-correct/
FOSSpatents is historically a paid Oracle and Microsoft shill, posting stuff sourced from them without citing the fact he is retained by them. Hence about the least trustworthy source you can find on the interwebs... fact checks elsewhere hence actively encouraged.
Just not sure what caused any change in the end... https://medium.com/futures-exchange/1c6d2587db4a
You can probably add:
The Minister for Work and Pensions is persecuting people on benefits who have too many bedrooms in their house, while trousering €150,000 per year from the public purse for leaving farmland around the mansion he lives in Fallow. And please don't mention the validity of his University Degree either...
S/phone call/film crew
Damn autocorrect !
That of Plumpergeddon - a guy mugged at a cashpoint in London, losing his wallet and MacBook. Then a long example of police imcompetence, closing the case for "lack of evidence" despite 6,000 photos and screenshots from the "hidden" app on the MacBook.
I think he's had a phone call do a sting, and the police are back - and now interested in persuing things. But a shocking read if you follow the story as it unfolds. See: http://plumpergeddon.tumblr.com/
Her book "Captive Audience" is a good read. I guess the FCC and DOJ need to apply a number of preconditions without end dates to cover the potential areas ripe for abuse, namely:
* Net Neutrality both in the network and to its edges
* investment in increasing speeds of the core infrastructure
* Separating out the current vertical integration between content & wires
* putting catastrophic penalties in place for violations of the above, or in support of legislation to undermine competitors and municipal alternatives
Somehow, I don't think the FCC or DOJ are smart enough to go close. About the best result is to decline to merger, or put a precondition to spin out the infrastructure and content sides to separate trading entities...
In the final analysis, the consumer pays. This whole scam is a magnesium flare to divert attention away from net neutrality.
The funny thing I head this morning was that Comcast, at the request of the FCC, had a precondition from their NBC acquisition to obey net neutrality rules until 2018. Stupid or not? Why end date anything like that. It's like telling the Taliban the date they won't be confronted with any US troops in Afghanistan. I mean, what do you expect to happen if you're given a date beyond which you can gouge customers to your hearts content?
This on the same day that it was announced that IBM had successfully executed their patent related shakedown on Twitter, having pounced on them the day before their IPO.
Don't IBM realise they are bringing their widely respected brand into disrepute by doing this?
The News this morning mentioned that a specific junior minister had requested the destruction of storage media at the Guardian. If so, we're getting closer to the top. A Junior Minister is normally a bag carrier for the Ministers instructions, but who can be thrown under a bus as an escape route for their boss if things go pear shaped. So, I don't think it will take Brain of Britain to work out the definitive source of the command...
You're in good shape if you're a multinational, at least with Microsoft. I had one bank that asked about differential pricing between the UK and USA, and at the time, it was circa 30%. Said Bank told the local MS sub that it was going to administer all its corporate licenses out of the USA, so they set the price at SELECT Level D minus 30%.
After a year of trading, the bank asked the same question again. US HSBC asked for their pricing, and the USA pricing was quoted back on Microsofts own systems at SELECT Level D (USA pricing), discounted by 30%.
Microsofts response was to tell LARs that they couldn't buy from each other across continental borders unless you were a LAR in both, so only 1-2 resellers could broker these sort of International deals for multinational clients.
Adobe refuse point blank to license across Continental borders; as an end user, they split the user populations accordingly and discount each continent separately.
As far as Microsofts own internal accounting is concerned, they attribute 20% of the financials they land to the country of order, and 80% to the Microsoft subsidiary where the end users actually reside. Resellers only get rebates where the licenses are present in the geography they are authorised to sell into... hence their margins are extremely small on these deals (routinely less than 1% GM).
While at Harvard, Gates learnt a lot from source code listings from the DECsystem-10s there.
I was also shown a prerelease version of Windows by Bill Gates himself in May 1983, on the Compaq Plus he was carrying around to vendors at the time. I asked him at the time why the Apple Lisa had one mouse button, Visi-On had three but his mouse had two. He rolled off all the design tradeoffs for 20 minutes or so. Very impressive, knew all the competitors thoroughly.
Opening words whenever he shook hands with any senior exec were "When are you going to drop CP/M?".
I still agonise on why MS get licensing fees for FAT-32 when it is almost a direct copy of Files-11 ODS-1 and ODS-2, which both were live inside DEC at the time Microsoft were first incorporated (in 1976). Or indeed how they get to play Playground Bully with Android licensees. Microsoft are great at a number if things, but innovating genuiinely new work is not a core competence there.
I live in the constituency that includes some major RCUK funded labs (Rutherford Appleton, Diamond, ja.net, etc) and where my local MP is Ed Vaizey - Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries.
I've dropped an email to him to ask why such things are being allowed to happen when research was paid for by the public purse in the first place, and whether RCUK can return to their original proposal. I've cited the TechDirt article in my email.
Lets see what he comes back with...
Ian W.
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A Parasite, a Virus, and a Bacterium: NIAID's Plan to Tackle the World's Leading Killers
During an address this morning to international infectious disease specialists, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., unveiled the Institute's global plan to combat three leading infectious killers. The NIAID Global Health Research Plan for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis provides short-, mid-, and long-term objectives for battling these diseases by building on the Institute's strong foundation in global infectious disease research.
"HIV, malaria, and TB combined kill more than five million people every year and greatly affect the health of the more than half billion people who live with one or more of these diseases," says Dr. Fauci. "By adding new international partnerships, expanding research programs, and providing international training opportunities, NIAID can help develop health strategies that are practical for use in endemic countries."
The plan addresses three diseases singled out by the Group of Eight nations in July 2000 in a pledge to reduce the devastating toll taken by these scourges worldwide, particularly in developing countries. The plan outlines NIAID's goals as it, too, focuses on this deadly troika.
In the 20 years since its first reported appearance, AIDS has skyrocketed to become the world's second leading cause of infectious disease deaths. Since the epidemic began, 57 million people have become infected with the AIDS virus and more than 21 million people have died. Malaria, a leading parasite killer of children in developing countries, affects up to 500 million people across the globe and kills one person every 10 to 15 seconds. Tuberculosis trails only lower respiratory infections and HIV/AIDS as an infectious cause of death. The TB bacterium currently infects one-third of the world's population, and eight million people develop disease symptoms each year.
The NIAID plan highlights four key research areas common to all three illnesses: vaccine and prevention studies, drug development, diagnostics, and enhancements to research capacity. Vaccine research remains a top priority of the plan. No vaccine has yet been developed for HIV or malaria, and although a vaccine exists for TB, it does not prevent the adult lung disease that ravages much of the world's population. In addition to vaccines, new drugs are needed to combat drug-resistant microbe strains that have emerged for each disease and to reduce the toxic side effects of many existing medications, particularly those used to treat HIV. Improved diagnostics will allow for more rapid and accurate identification of disease, allowing researchers to better assess the incidence of these diseases and permitting physicians to administer effective treatment more quickly.
To enhance these research efforts and hasten the application of promising strategies to the people who need them, NIAID's plan includes multiple goals for expanding research facilities within endemic areas and training local physicians and researchers so they can better provide for the needs of their communities. By strengthening international partnerships, the plan emphasizes treatment and prevention strategies that are effective and practical for use in individual areas.
The NIAID plan contains some of the goals previously set forth last December in the Global AIDS Research Initiative and Strategic Plan. That plan, compiled by the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), highlights current AIDS research from all agencies within the NIH and outlines future objectives to address the global spread of the disease. The NIAID plan expands on elements of the NIH-wide AIDS research initiative and provides more comprehensive details of the Institute's plans in this arena.
"Infectious diseases pose incredibly complex challenges, with every step made by science countered by adaptations in the infectious organism," says Dr. Fauci. "To combat diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, leading research organizations must develop comprehensive plans that bring international scientists together to launch a multi-pronged attack; improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of these diseases in regions where they exact the highest tolls."
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies
A copy of the NIAID Global Health Research Plan for HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis can be found online at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/globalhealth/global.pdf.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.


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In a July 24 speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama identified education as one of the cornerstones of a strong middle class. "The days when the wages for a worker with a high school degree could keep pace with the earnings of somebody who got some sort of higher education are over," he explained. Our country needs to provide "an education that prepares our children and our workers for the global competition that they're going to face…. If we don't make this investment, we're going to put our kids, our workers, and our country at a competitive disadvantage for decades."
Some excerpts on education:
Preschool for All. "I'm going to keep pushing to make high-quality preschool available for every four-year-old in America. Not just because we know it works for our kids but because it provides a vital support system for working parents."
- ConnectED. "I'm going to take action in the education area to spur innovation that doesn't require Congress. Today, for example, as we speak, federal agencies are moving on my plan to connect 99% of America's students to high-speed Internet over the next five years. We've already begun meeting with business leaders and tech entrepreneurs and innovative educators to identify the best ideas for redesigning our high schools so that they teach the skills required for a high-tech economy."
Community College to Career. "I've asked Congress to start a Community College to Career initiative, so that workers can earn the skills that high-tech jobs demand without leaving their hometown. And, I'm going to challenge CEOs from some of America's best companies to hire more Americans who've got what it takes to fill that job opening but have been laid off for so long that nobody is giving their resume an honest look."
College Affordability. "I'm going to use the power of my office over the next few months to highlight a topic that's straining the budgets of just about every American family: the soaring cost of higher education. Everybody is touched by this, including your President, who had a whole bunch of loans he had to pay off. Three years ago, I worked with Democrats to reform the student loan system so that taxpayer dollars stopped padding the pockets of big banks and, instead, helped more kids afford college. Then, I capped loan repayments at 10% of monthly incomes for responsible borrowers…. And, this week, we're working with both parties to reverse the doubling of student loan rates that happened a few weeks ago because of congressional inaction. So, this is all a good start -- but it isn't enough. Families and taxpayers can't just keep paying more and more and more into an undisciplined system where costs just keep on going up and up and up. We'll never have enough loan money, we'll never have enough grant money, to keep up with costs that are going up 5%, 6%, 7% a year. We've got to get more out of what we pay for…. In the coming months, I will lay out an aggressive strategy to shake up the system, tackle rising costs, and improve value for students and their families. It is critical that we make sure that college is affordable for every single American who's willing to work for it."
Following his remarks at Knox College, the President delivered a similar speech at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg.
Race to the Top
On July 30, the Department announced it had finalized the application for the 2013 Race to the Top-District competition, which will provide almost $120 million to support school districts in implementing local education reforms that personalize instruction, close achievement gaps, and take full advantage of 21st century tools that prepare each student for college and careers. The program sets a high bar to fund districts with a track record of success, clear vision for reform, and innovative plans to transform the learning environment and accelerate student achievement.
The program criteria invites applications from districts or groups of districts proposing to serve at least 2,000 students -- or groups of 10 or more districts proposing to serve less than 2,000 students -- with at least 40% of participating students (across all participating schools) from low-income families. Districts will choose to apply for funding to support learning strategies that personalize education in all or a set of schools, within specific grade levels or select subjects. Also, districts must demonstrate a commitment to Race to the Top's four core reform areas and have sign-off on their plan from the local superintendent, local school board president, and local teacher union/association president (where applicable). The Department plans to support high-quality proposals from across a variety of districts, including rural and non-rural, as well as those participating in a Race to the Top state grant and those not participating. The program offers competitive preference to applicants that form partnerships to sustain their work and provide services that help meet students' academic, social, and emotional needs outside of the classroom.
The Department expects to make five to 10 awards. Awards will range from $4 million to $30 million, depending on the population served through the plan. Districts are asked to submit an intent to apply by August 23. Applications are due October 3. Grants will be announced no later than December 31. (Note: To assist applicants, the agency is hosting technical assistance webinars and has posted answers to Frequently Asked Questions.)
Early Learning
The Department has announced that Dr. Libby Doggett will be named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning. She will lead the Office of Early Learning within the agency's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), which jointly administers the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) program with the Department of Health and Human Services. This fall, the agencies will hold another RTT-ELC competition. Dr. Doggett recently directed the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, partnering with state legislators and other leaders to promote effective state policies and investments in high-quality, home-based programs for vulnerable new and expectant families. Previously, she led Pre-K Now, Pew's 10-year campaign that advanced high-quality, voluntary preschool nationally.
Don't miss the recaps of Secretary Duncan's trips to Minneapolis (op-ed) and Denver (blog post) for early learning town halls.
California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, and Wisconsin will each receive a supplemental RTT-ELC award to improve quality and expand access to early learning programs throughout their states.
A new blog post showcases arts integration in early learning.
A new report from the Department's National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) synthesizes the results of dozens of research studies in early intervention and early childhood education. Contributions to the knowledge base are in four focal areas: early childhood classroom environments and general instructional practices, educational practices designed to impact children's academic and social outcomes, measuring young children's skills and learning, and professional development for early educators.
ConnectED Initiative
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initiated a thorough review and modernization of the E-Rate program built around three goals: increased broadband capacity, cost-effective purchasing, and streamlined program administration. Over the past 15 years, support provided by the E-Rate has helped revolutionize schools' and libraries' access to modern communications networks, but the needs of both schools and libraries are changing. According to a 2010 survey of E-Rate applicants, half had slower Internet connection speeds than the average American home, and 39% cited cost of service as the greatest barrier to better meeting their needs. Moreover, per an American Library Association survey, one-quarter of libraries still have broadband speeds of 1.5 Mbps or less, and only 9% of libraries have speeds of 100 Mbps or greater. In light of these findings, there is a consensus that the E-Rate needs to be updated and revitalized with a clear focus on ensuring that all schools and libraries have affordable access to quality broadband. (Note: Secretary Duncan's statement on the FCC action is available online.)
Also, a diverse set of leaders from across the country have expressed support for the FCC's action.
Student Loan Interest Rates
This week, Congress approved a bipartisan compromise to keep student loan interest rates low this year. This compromise -- similar to a plan proposed by the President in the spring -- cuts rates on all new loans this year and saves a typical undergraduate student $1,500 over the life of the loan. The plan allows borrowers to benefit from the low interest rates currently available in the marketplace and guarantees that borrowers are able to lock-in these rates over the life of their loans. In the future, fixed rates will be determined each year by market conditions, helping ensure that borrowers' rates are more in line with the government's own cost of borrowing, while capping how high rates can rise. The plan also represents a very clear rejection of proposals designed to raise student rates in order to reduce the deficit. (Note: Secretary Duncan's statement on the compromise is available online.)
Also, federal bank regulatory agencies issued a joint statement encouraging financial institutions "to work constructively with private student loan borrowers experiencing financial difficulties."
Odds and Ends
Secretary Duncan's remarks at the IDEA Leadership Conference, titled "Building Bridges: Fostering Innovative Leadership and Learning," are posted here.
New blog posts capture the excitement of this summer's "Let's Read! Let's Move!" enrichment series. In the second event, on July 17, the Secretary was joined by actress and singer Phylicia Rashad and Washington Kastles tennis coach Murphy Jensen. In the third event, on July 24, the Secretary was joined by Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan, astronaut George Zamka, new Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, and U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (Colorado) and Johnny Isakson (Georgia). And, just yesterday, the Secretary was joined by actor Hill Harper, basketball player Jeremy Lin, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, and D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier. The final event will be held August 6.
Kelly Jubic, a college graduate, current graduate student, and high school teacher, offers a few tricks on how to save for college.
On July 29, the Department published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) updating regulations governing the Federal Direct Loan, the Federal Family Education Loan, and the Perkins Loan programs. A negotiated rulemaking committee completed its work on these proposed rules last year. Comments are due August 28.
Earlier this week, the Secretary met with the DREAM Riders, a group of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) who have been granted deferred action through the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
A state legislator, elementary school principal, testing and measurement expert, and two parents/general public members have been appointed by Secretary Duncan to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). The new appointees will help set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP makes objective information on student performance available to policymakers and the public at the national, state, and local levels for nearly a dozen subjects.
Quote to Note
"I've asked my team to shake the trees all across the country for some of the best ideas out there for keeping college costs down, so that as students prepare to go back to school, I'm in a position to lay out what's going to be an aggressive strategy to shake up the system to make sure that middle class students, working class students, poor kids who have the drive and the wherewithal and want to get a good college education, they can get it without basically mortgaging their entire future. We can make this happen. But, this is an example of the kind of thing we've got to focus on, instead of a bunch of distractions in Washington."
-- President Barack Obama (7/24/13), in a speech on the economy at the University of Central Missouri
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U.S. Army 1st Sgt. David M. Bradley's service was just beginning when he retired in 1981 from a 22-year military career that included two tours in Vietnam.
U.S. Army 1st Sgt. David M. Bradley's service was just beginning when he retired in 1981 from a 22-year military career that included two tours in Vietnam.
Bradley, a Westerville-area resident, spent the next decades in service to other veterans.
In recognition of his service to his country and community, the 72-year-old was inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame Nov. 8.
He was one of 15 veterans inducted this year into the hall of fame at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton. This year's class joins 428 Ohio veterans already in the hall.
Upon retiring from the Army, Bradley served as the first executive director of the Vietnam Veterans of America's Ohio State Council, a post he held for eight years, said his wife, Suzanne Harnichar, who accepted the honors on Bradley's behalf, because he is in failing health.
Bradley went on to serve as executive director of the Franklin County Veterans Services Commission and helped to establish the Columbus Veterans Advisory Council, which he chaired for a number of years, Harnichar said.
In his time on the Columbus Veterans Advisory Council, the group worked to erect and dedicate the veterans' memorial at Port Columbus International Airport in 1989. The sculpture bears Bradley's dog tags, Harnichar said.
Bradley also worked with legislators to bring Veterans Administration clinics to Columbus.
"He was involved when they built the one on Taylor Road. They now have one out at Steltzer," Harnichar said. "He was involved in so many things."
He also worked to obtain grants for homeless veterans and served on the board of the United Service Organization. He worked with the Vietnam Veterans of America to establish chapters in Ohio's prison system, and led Columbus' orange-ribbon campaign during Operation Desert Storm in 1990, Harnichar said.
Harnichar said Bradley's work was motivated by how much he treasured his own service in the Army.
"I think his experience in the military was very dear to him, and being part of the Vietnam War generation, which did not get the recognition that World War II veterans got, I think he's like a lot of other Vietnam veterans (and) felt very strongly about helping other veterans," Harnichar said.
In addition to being inducted to the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame, Bradley received commendations from several leaders, including the U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and the Ohio Senate.
Bradley and Harnichar have been married for 31 years, and Bradley has three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Bradley retired from the Franklin County Veterans Services Commission in 2005. He has been active in many veterans' groups and has helped to organize Columbus Veterans Day parade.
"I'm extremely proud of him," Harnichar said. "I believe he was very deserving because he has done so much through the years for veterans, and he did it all and would do it all without expecting recognition.
"He's a very kind man and a very caring man, and beside his family, veterans and veterans' issues are dear to his heart. His entire family is very, very proud of him."


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What about the Android version of Chrome?
This is the 3rd update to 22 on the stable channel for Win/Linux/Mac while ChromeOS has been stuck with 21 for weeks.
What is up?
So my Chromebook is vulnerable?
Macewan -that's a good question.
The security fixes that have been implemented in the updates are still out there for those of us who haven't gotten them. At least before they were obscure security holes. Now they are out there for any malicious code-writer to read and try to exploit for all that haven't yet been given the update.
So, maybe...
The extensions icons need to stay in place btwn updates. Biggest chrome annoyance
i think the update system is broken..
when i choose About at the setting and downloading for update,it crushed..then I open it back, PUFFF! updated to newest version..and it happen only in 5 Second??
only the number of the version is updated,not the whole chrome.
60,000USD... what a motivation .)
It had to be a brony...
Kudos on the exploit. Good money and you did something legitimate with your knowledge rather than make the world a worse place.
there is a bag in this version: can't change css styles of any element on loaded page or add new in existing css style block. you can only add new in block "element.style".
This version includes new flash version 184.108.40.206 which crashes all sites trying to access webcams. Including Googles own sites like Youtube.
I got bored of chrome, the zoom is broken, some update fix it, few updates later breaks it again..
Seriously Google? The standalone version is downloading the install files? Release the stand "alone" version for all of your geek fans who like to offline install every new version
Yesterday I visited a friend to check his computer's software. I was shocked by the poor performance of the latest Chrome. What happened last quarter to this browser ?
Google Chrome team: what are you going to do to improve your browser significantly (speed, flash, fonts, etc.)?
This version is even slower and more unstable than the last, with the Google homepage taking over 5 minutes to load. There is a definite memory leak if you leave it running without opening a page. In 24 hours, the memory usage skyrockets to over 4gb.


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During our 11 minute plus discussion with Dr. Don Yeomans of the NASA Near Earth Object Program Office at JPL, we talked about the 17,500 mile approach to Earth of Asteroid 2012 DA14. This asteroid will be this close to Earth on Feb. 15, 2013. We discussed the asteroid's orbit, possible collision with our satellites, and how we might deflect or mitigate the damage of an object this size that might be headed for Earth impact. This particular asteroid is probably made of rock and has a 45 meter diameter. Dr. Yeomans also talked about the search for potential NEOs that could impact the Earth, breaking the search down by the size of the space object. Our guest suggested the best viewing spots for trying to see Asteroid 2012 DA14 but unfortunately the sites are not in the U.S. To really see it, one would need binoculars or a telescope.
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The Right Honorable Harriet Harman, a member of the British parliament representing Camberwell and Peckham in southeast London, is demanding that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger shut down a popular Web site.
The California-based site in question is a place where men who like to pay for some warm company post reviews of providers.
"There is now a website… where pimps put women on sale for sex and then men who've had sex with them put their comments online. It is PunterNet and fuels the demand for prostitutes," Harman told delegates to a Labour Party conference.
Thankfully, Schwarzenegger is not actually a ruthless dictator, and probably doesn't have the power to arbitrarily crush a small business with an iron fist, as much as he might like to.
Besides, whack the PunterNet mole and watch people pop up at San Francisco institutions like SF Redbook and, of course, Craigslist.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Fields of dreams? Venable townhouses close to everything
ADDRESS: 1201, 1203, 1211 John Street
NEIGHBORHOOD: Venable
ASKING: $249,900 (1201 and 1211) and $354,900 (1203)
ASSESSMENT: n/a– new construction
SIZE: 1,271 fin. sq. ft. / 265 unfin.; 1,536 fin. sq. ft. / 254 unfin.
LAND: 0.04-0.06 acres
CURB APPEAL: 9 out of 10
AGENT: Roger Voisinet, Re/Max Realty Specialists, 974-1500
To test the timeworn truth of "location, location, location," look no further than year-end real estate statistics. While none of it is pretty, thus far Charlottesville has fared better than the counties in the real estate meltdown: compared to 2007, in 2008 the number of single-family property sales in the city decreased about nine percent, versus 25 percent in the surrounding counties.
Of course, when considering macroeconomic numbers, one should always bear in mind Mark Twain's phrase, "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Many a self-appointed "expert" spun flawed information during the boom, so take anything you hear nowadays with a 50-pound bag of salt.
For a more microeconomic test of the "location" rule, then, consider this six-unit townhouse development just off 14th Street near the Corner.
Thanks to its front-door view of the sports fields behind Venable Elementary, this complex is known collectively as "The Fields at Venable." The complex was developed with the Piedmont Housing Alliance, and two of the six townhouses are designated "affordable." These units, on each end of the development, are narrower and 250 square feet smaller than the other four. This means two bedrooms upstairs (compared to the other units' three).
More on the "affordable" units: income restrictions apply, and PHA offers some financing and down payment help, which will come in handy. There's a tight tolerance between coming in under income limits and actually being able to afford a townhouse that– although cheaper than the larger units– is still listed at a quarter of a million dollars. Perhaps that explains why both are still available.
The agent has an interesting CV that includes some serious green cred. He founded a solar contracting company here in the early 1980s, before solar was cool. He also coaches UVA's hockey team, a fact which (barely) justifies the following awkward sports pun: while location gets the puck into the net at the Fields at Venable, it gets an assist from energy-efficient, low-maintenance building components.
All six houses have Energy Star-certified windows, heat pumps, and appliances (tangential tax tip: a state income tax credit is available for half of the sales tax paid on any Energy Star-certified household items).
Trex composite decking material means no arsenic splinters as well as low maintenance, a key goal of the development. Another feature supporting the low-maintenance objective is fiber cement siding, popularly known by the brand name "Hardiplank."
Properly maintained, this attractive composite can last 50 years. Awesome– one more thing we can palm off on our grandkids! (Their current "To Do" list: Pay for Wall Street bailout; Keep the Social Security/Medicare Ponzi/Madoff scheme going at least until we die; and Replace fiber cement siding.)
The lower level of each house includes a small bonus room as well as a garage, handy to have in the high-density UVA area, where tow trucks circle like vultures. Because of its central location, the agent is marketing the Fields to UVA students and their parents. Indeed, a Wahoo engineering student could place the point of a protractor on these townhouses and draw a circle one mile in diameter that could describe quite a pub crawl (as if harried E-schoolers have time to go out!).
After such an evening, it's fortuitous that the University Hospital is the halfway point along our route. That's far enough for a UVA student, anyway, as most seem to regard eastern Charlottesville with the fear of pre-Columbian sailors: the earth drops off into infinite oblivion beyond the Corner. (In reality, the Amtrak station and Lewis and Clark statue– gateway to the Downtown Mall– await to the east.)
With two of the townhouses already sold, and a third under contract and scheduled to close this month, location seems to be helping sales here. As for the bigger picture in real estate, we'll leave the statistical analysis to the "experts."
Each week, a brave local seller invites the Hook to provide an impartial, warts-and-all look at their real estate listing. E-mail yours today!


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Water rights holders in the Eastern Snake Plain aquifer have been fighting for decades. The State Water Resource Board thinks they may have a new management plan which could solve the legal battles and stabilize the state's largest and most important aquifer. But the plan needs money and the state may not be able to afford it.
Joan Cartan-Hansen and guests Hal Anderson, Division Administrator for the Idaho Department of Water Resources, and State Legislator and surface water user Senator Charles Coiner explain what the plan would do and debate its future.
This show continues Dialogue's long-standing coverage of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer issue. View previous shows:


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IETF Begins To Work On Designing A Surveillance-Resistant Net
from the but-that's-the-easy-bit dept
Edward Snowden's leaks show that the NSA and GCHQ have been systematically subverting key technologies that underlie the Internet. That betrayal of trust has prompted some soul-searching by the Net engineering community, which realizes that it needs to come up with more surveillance-resistant approaches. This story from Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) provides information about the kind of thing they are working on in one key group, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It reports on a speech given by the IETF's chair, Jari Arkko, at the recent Internet Governance Forum in Bali, Indonesia.
Firstly, the IETF wants to eventually apply encryption to all web traffic.
Putting that in context, Axl Pavlik, the managing director of Europe's Internet Registry (RIPE NCC), notes that you can never stop surveillance completely, but you can make it more expensive:
"Today, security only gets switched on for certain services like banking," Arkko explained, referring to IETF-developed standards like SSL -- the little lock that appears in the upper left corner of your browser to secure online purchases. "If we work hard, we can make [the entire internet] secure by default." To this end, the IETF might make encryption mandatory for HTTP 2.0, a new version of the basic web protocol.
Secondly, the IETF plans to remove weak algorithms and strengthen existing algorithms behind encryption. This means that the US National Security Agency and other surveillors will find it harder to crack current forms of encryption.
"You and I have limited resources, and the surveillor has limited resources -- maybe more than we have -- but if millions of users of the internet raise the bar a little bit, the requirements to surveil every little bit of internet traffic would be much higher," he explained to RNW.
Mandatory use of encryption helps do that. And here's another good reason for adopting it:
The IETF's plans also benefit people who are already encrypting their online activities themselves, argued Marco Hogewoning, technical adviser to RIPE NCC. According to him, these people currently stick out like a sore thumb to the very surveillors they hope to evade.
He has a great analogy:
"If you see an armoured car now on the street, you know there must be something valuable inside," Hogewoning explained. "If everybody drives around in an armoured car, I can go around and put a lot of effort into breaking into each and every car, and hope I get lucky and find something valuable inside, but it might be empty. If everybody encrypts everything, all you can see is armoured cars."
However, valuable as these moves will be in raising the cost of surveillance, there is always the problem of the endpoints:
While the IETF might be able to secure the pipes through which users' data travel, users must also be able to trust the parties where their data is stored: software, hardware and services such as Cisco, Gmail and Facebook. These parties can hand over user data directly to government agencies.
To address that, technical improvements aren't enough -- we need political solutions, too. Unfortunately, those are rather more difficult to engineer.
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Under This Terrible Sun
Equal parts stoner pulp thriller and psycho-physiological horror story, a pervasive sense of dread mixes with a cloud of weed smoke to seep into every line of the disturbing, complex Under This Terrible Sun. Originally published by illustrious Spanish publishers Editorial Anagrama, Under This Terrible Sun is Argentine journalist-cum-novelist Carlos Busqued's debut novel in both Spanish and now English.
I don't read many gruesome novels, so I don't know exactly which other books to compare this novel to, but the vibe of Under This Terrible Sun reminds me of the creeping evil that saturates the movie Se7en, and not in the least because most of the deadly sins crop up throughout Busqued's novel in various guises. The plot of Under This Terrible Sun is comprised of a convoluted series of events, with only a few central characters around whom the action takes place, and most of the action itself is moved forward by a true old-fashioned villain, who, in the end, receives his comeuppance through a deus ex machina event that wraps up this fucked-up story of greed, sloth, and murder a little too nicely. But boy, let me tell you, the story that leads to the ending is worth reading. The first time I read it, I was disconcerted by how easily I was flying through the book, how easily my eyes and mind were gliding over the events taking place on the page, which were pretty gruesome. But then I went back through the novel a second time to prepare for this review and realized that this story had more going on than I realized at first—and that was the most stomach-churning part: our society has become so dehumanized that we've become immune to horrific images and reports of violence. Nothing shocks us anymore. This book didn't shock me, and that's the disturbing part. It should have.
The novel opens with Javier Cetarti, a shiftless loser who was fired from his job six months earlier and who was just about to run out of money and, more importantly, marijuana, when he receives a phone call from a guy named Duarte in a tiny village called Lapachito, far to the north of Cordoba, where Cetarti lives. Duarte has some bad news: Cetarti's mother and brother had been killed by his mother's live-in boyfriend, who also killed himself as the coup de grace of the grisly bloodbath. Cetarti hardly reacts to the news, but gets in the car and makes the 600+ kilometer drive up north when Duarte tells him there is some sort of life insurance policy involved, and Cetarti has the chance to cash in:
Of all the news Duarte had given him the night before, Cetarti had been most motivated to drive to Lapachito by the news that there was a life insurance policy to collect. He had been booted out of his job six months before (lack of initiative, discouraging behavior), and he had eaten through almost all of his compensation without lifting a finger.
For a dude who sits around smoking pot all day, refusing to work, this is a pretty sweet chance, and it also forms the introduction, within the first five pages, to Cetarti's questionable moral impulse. This lack of morality becomes one of the main themes that dominates Cetarti's universe vividly portrayed by Busqued in Under This Terrible Sun.
Cetarti arrives in his mother's village, a wasteland that seems like the set of a horror story come to life: the houses are sinking into the mud caused by an industrial accident, the city is literally collapsing in on itself, poisonous beetles are taking over (although Cetarti is pretty sure there are no poisonous beetles, everyone tells him the beetles he sees everywhere are poisonous), and the residents can't be bothered to leave because they just get used to it, as Duarte tells Cetarti. Welcome to Lapachito; it may be its own layer of hell.
Duarte lets Cetarti in on the life insurance scheme he's concocted. Turns out, Cetarti's mom's live-in boyfriend, Molina, took out a life insurance policy before the massacre, and Cetarti could technically lay claim to the loot. It involves some questionable dealings, greasing the palms of government officials, and it doesn't take long before you realize Duarte is hardly an ally, he's as shady as it gets and completely incapable of doing Good. But he's still promising Cetarti a sizeable payday, and he supplies Cetarti with tons of good weed, so Cetarti can't complain.
Cetarti joins Duarte to visit his mother's house, where the killing took place, and when they open the door they meet Molina's ex-wife, who is there cleaning everything up. Cetarti goes through his mother's and brother's belongings without emotion, takes a few items, including what turns out to be keys to his brother's apartment in Cordoba. The next day, he visits Duarte at home and gets a little creeped out, but rather laconically, as is Cetarti's style, by some of the pornography that Duarte keeps laying around his house. Along with building a fleet of intricately-detailed model airplanes that are referenced throughout the novel, and paralleled by the characters watching a series of military documentaries on TV, Duarte is in the process of digitizing a fleet of brutal VHS porno tapes he'd collected, with titles too vile to mention here. He explains his choice of this particularly violent and nasty pornography to Cetarti:
"There's some pornography you don't watch to jerk off, you watch it more out of curiosity about how far the human species will go . . . This is what I was telling you is interesting, to see the limits of what a person is capable of doing or letting others do to them. That old woman, I picture her getting dressed with her ass all destroyed, taking the subway, buying chocolates for her grandchildren with the money she just earned by letting them do that to her . . ."
Duarte is obsessed with seeing how far the human species will go—and not just on video. A man of action, Duarte is a vibrant character: completely evil, completely amoral, completely unsympathetic, and for all of these reasons, a fascinating character. Although he commits all sorts of extortion schemes for money, he seems far more driven by the thought of pushing human bodies to their breaking point than in receiving money for anything. Which is terrifying.
Around this time we meet his henchman, a fat, shiftless pothead named Danielito, who is the son of the deceased Molina and Molina's ex-wife. Duarte uses Danielito's basement to hold hostages, seeking a ransom from the victim's family at the same time as he abuses and violates the victims. Danielito is an all-too-willing accomplice to the torture, feeding the victims, but otherwise staying out of the way and letting Duarte enact his most revolting fantasies on his victims (fortunately, only alluded to).
The point of view at this point in the novel begins to alternate between Cetarti and Danielito, Duarte is never the focal point, the narrative proceeds through Cetarti and Danielito's THC-reddened eyes, but he is the connection between the two characters (who don't meet until much later in the novel), and only through Duarte do the parallels between their weed-soaked lives become evident: they sit around, smoke weed, eat sometimes, and watch nature and war documentaries on TV constantly. The subjects of these documentaries (elephants in southeast Asia, giant squids, WWII) recur over and over again in both characters' lives.
The interplay between inhuman humans and mysterious deadly creatures of land and sea forms one of the most interesting themes of the novel, which shouldn't be surprising given the novel's epigraph, taken from Alfred Tennyson's "The Kraken": " . . . Then once by man and angels to be seen, / In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die."
In one particularly creepy scene from which the novel's title is lifted, Danielito's mother asks him to accompany her to another shitty village far from Lapachito in order to steal the bones of her firstborn son, who died before he was a year old and who, much to Danielito's chagrin, is also named Daniel, and leads Danielito to fantasize about elephants he'd heard from Duarte were man-killers in southeast Asia, a theme that is first raised in conversation between Cetarti and Duarte much earlier in the novel. This particular scene is also an excellent example of Busqued's narrative technique, and illustrates the overall vibe of the novel:
bq. He couldn't avoid a shudder when he read, painted on the tin heart: DANIEL MOLINA 2-12-1972/10-4-1973. He looked at his mother. She was staring at the sunken earth.
bq. "Poor thing, all these years under this terrible sun."
bq. He dug apprehensively. The earth was soft, but he felt no urge to speed up. He was soaked in sweat. Around the cemetery there was an island of empty land, and after a hundred meters the bush-covered mountain. He remembered the documentary about the elephants of Mal Bazaar. He imagined one of those elephants emerging from the forest. He imagined it coming towards them. A complex and powerful body that shook the earth at each step. But the elephant wouldn't attack them, he thought. It would approach them calmly and with a certain curiosity. It would stop beside them, touching them gently with its trunk. And then it would fall to the ground. Or disappear into thin air. Or something, anything else. But it wouldn't hurt them. "Almost every mahout is an alcoholic," he remembered. How nice to be an alcoholic, he though, how nice to be murdered by an elephant. Something, anything else.
Cetarti eventually goes home to Cordoba and moves out of his apartment into the place where his brother had been living, accumulating massive amounts of junk (bug collections, Readers Digest, orange peels) in a strange part of town called Hugo Wast, a mysterious neighborhood where nobody owns their houses, but rather squats in them, located near the municipal slaughterhouse, which gives the area a particular smell when the wind blows in the right way. Cetarti eventually gets the money from Duarte and—to make a long story short and to glaze over Duarte doing some dastardly deeds and Danielito's mother morphing into a very interesting and strong secondary character on whom many words could be written alone—Cetarti eventually gets wrapped up in another one of Duarte's schemes, which leads to the rather abrupt ending (which comes about a bit too neatly for me).
As I said, I'm not one for gruesome novels, so I can assure you that this novel, despite being disturbing, is worth reading. It's shocking and interesting in ways that literary novels rarely achieve. I mentioned Se7en above: it's actually a pretty good comparison, the same creeping dread and inhuman elements are at play, which is actually refreshing to read in Busqued's telling, capturing some of the more interesting morally-questionable elements of humanity that are usually only portrayed in Scandinavian (or other styles of) detective thrillers. Busqued is a good writer, sparse at times, maintaining a narrative distance from the characters' impulses while simultaneously opening the door into some of their thoughts. His sentences are seemingly simplistic in construction, but all the while gather elements and build up to a pulse-quickening crescendo, all told via the quality work of translator, Megan McDowell (a UT-Dallas translation program alumna!).
As one of new ebook-only publisher Frisch & Co.'s first titles, they have done an admirable job of bringing Busqued's novel into English as part of their unique partnership with Editorial Anagrama, in which they will publish two books a year from the Spanish-language publishers in digital formats. It remains to be seen if Frisch & Co. will partner with anybody to do physical copies of these books, but either way, in any format, Under This Terrible Sun is a damn good read.


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Flying By Card
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (white) Neenah Paper; (purple, black) Rubber stamps: (Polka Dot Witch, Large Solid Dot) Impress Rubber Stamps Clear stamp: (sentiment from Happy Halloween set) Hero Arts Dye ink: (Grape Jelly) Ranger Industries; (black) Tsukineko Pigment ink: (Chamomile) Impress Rubber Stamps Embossing powder: (black) American Crafts Accents: (yellow rhinestones) My & My Big Ideas Fibers: (purple/white twine) The Twinery Finished size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
1 Make card from cardstock.
2 Stamp sentiment and Circle on cardstock rectangle, mat with cardstock, and tie on twine.
3 Adhere panel to card with foam tape. Adhere rhinestones.
4 Stamp Polka Dot Witch on cardstock; emboss. Trim and adhere with foam tape.
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10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
There are some ninety-two naturally occurring elements as well as a handful of man-made radioactive elements. When in combination, these elements constitute all of our food, shelter, energy sources and everything we manufacture and use in our lives. This course provides a foundation for the understanding of the varying chemistries of the elements of the Periodic Table, with emphasis on inorganic materials. The course includes the descriptive chemistry of many of the most common elements and their compounds, integrating such topics as symmetry and structure, bonding models, reactions and the synthesis and characterization of inorganic compounds. An understanding of the behaviour of elements and their compounds is central to chemistry and borders the Earth and Life Sciences, as well as Engineering.
The main spectroscopic (infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy) techniques for the characterisation of organic compounds are taught separately in the first 3 weeks before the lab sessions start.
The course forms part of the accredited degree program required for Membership of Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. and Chartered Chemist qualifications.
Availability2019 Course Timetables
- Semester 1 - 2019
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. To develop expertise relevant to the professional practice of chemistry
2. To develop an understanding of the range and chemistry of elements in the periodic table and their compounds
3. To establish an appreciation of the role of inorganic chemistry in the chemical sciences
4. To develop an understanding of the role of the chemist in measurement and problem solving in inorganic chemistry
5. To provide an understanding of chemical methods employed for problem solving involving inorganic systems
6. To provide experience in some scientific methods employed in inorganic chemistry
7. To develop skills in procedures and instrumental methods applied in analytical and synthetic tasks of inorganic chemistry
8. To develop skills in the scientific method of planning, developing, conducting, reviewing and reporting experiments
9. To develop some understanding of the professional and safety responsibilities residing in working with inorganic systems
The course involves study of: 1) Introduction to structure determination and characterisation of compounds: infrared (IR) spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy. 2) Periodicity and the Chemistry of the Elements a) elements and the Periodic Table 3) Main Group Chemistry a) non-metals: chemistry of phosphorus and the halogens b) metalloids: chemistry of boron and silicon c) metals: chemistry of aluminium 4) Transition Metal Coordination Chemistry a) introduction to coordination number and shape of metal complexes b) ligands and ligand preferences c) physical properties of octahedral complexes - colour and magnetism, d) stability of complexes, introducing inorganic reactions and mechanisms 5) Molecular Symmetry and Structure a) symmetry elements and operations, point groups, and applications 6) Solid State Chemistry a) ionic bonding in solids 7) Bonding Models a) molecular orbital theory in simple molecules and metal complexes b) metal-ligand bonding theory
Assumed knowledge
CHEM1010 and CHEM1020
Assessment items
Formal Examination: Formal examination *
Quiz: Tutorial quiz
In Term Test: Case scenarios and Take home exam
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Laboratory exercises and reports *
* This assessment has a compulsory requirement.
Compulsory Requirements
In order to pass this course, each student must complete ALL of the following compulsory requirements:
General Course Requirements:
- Laboratory: Attendance Requirement - Students must attend a minimum number of these sessions. - Students must attend all scheduled laboratory sessions
- Laboratory: Induction Requirement - Students must attend and pass the induction requirements before attending these sessions.
Course Assessment Requirements:
- Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Attempt / Submission Requirement - Students must attempt/submit this assessment item to pass the course.
- Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Pass Requirement - Students must pass this assessment item to pass the course. - All submitted and overall mark of 50% or more to pass courses
- Formal Examination: Minimum Grade / Mark Requirement - Students must obtain a specified minimum grade / mark in this assessment item to pass the course. - Students must obtain a mark of 40% or more
Contact hours
Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per Week for 8 Weeks
Face to Face On Campus 30 hour(s) per Term Full Term
4 hours per week for 3 weeks and 2 hours per week for 9 weeks
Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per Week for 9 Weeks
Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per Week for 4 Weeks