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Good question. Another variant is, if its so great, why do not more people use it for more significant projects? If you ask that on forums where this stuff is discussed, you never get an answer.
Development does seem to be very slow, V 3 is coming out at a snail's pace. Documentation is pretty hard to come by. And yet it seems to have enormous promise, small, fast and powerful, totally cross platform, and with an easy to use gui kit on top. Has anyone made a serious effort to use it for real projects?
In a way, this story is a bit typical of the atmosphere around it. Without wanting to be unkind, its a story about an OS no-one uses or is likely to use in anger, which now runs a programming language very few people run either.
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Also a good question. This has been discussed so many times in the community and there are many possibilities. I will only list one, as it's very important now that REBOL 3 is under development:
REBOL 2 has great potential, but it also has many shortcomings: Poor sound support, entirely closed source model, some features are pricey, poor support for high precision math, the GUI engine is sparse and incomplete in some areas, ports are slow, complex and buggy. There's no unicode support at all, no threading or modules. Documentation is almost 8 years old and some parts are not documented.
Some of these problems have been remedied by third party add-ons, but some parts like threading can't be solved properly without rewriting the kernel of REBOL, which is what REBOL 3 gives us.
To some, these problems with REBOL 2 are showstoppers for people who otherwise may have had a great experience with REBOL, because there are other parts at which it truly excels. I think that is the major reason, REBOL hasn't entirely caught on with the public.
I want to explain the chronology:
At the REBOL Devcon in 2005, Carl Sassenrath, creator of REBOL explained that he really missed threading and was contemplating how to add that to REBOL 2. In early 2006, he began development of REBOL 3 instead.
REBOL 3 is a complete rewrite from scratch. In mid 2007, REBOL 3 went into internal alpha, released to a few people (one of them was me) and it didn't take more than a few days to realize how much work was left at that point. But the rewrite showed that some of the parts that are a complete showstopper in REBOL 2, not only work, but are of a great design in REBOL 3. So far, REBOL 3 is aiming to trounce almost every single shortcoming of REBOL 2. This can be done thanks to the input of developers who have worked with REBOL 2 over the past 8 years.
Around this time, we also set up a MediaWiki server. One problem with REBOL 2 is a lack of new documentation, so for REBOL 3, all documentation is stored in a wiki. We decided it was not a good idea to write our own custom Wiki at this time or use one of the available REBOL based wiki solutions, but the one that drove Wikipedia. If it can drive Wikipedia, it can drive our Docbase:
But we've come to realize that at some point, we need to write our own solution for tight integration with REBOL 3.
In late 2007, work began on the GUI engine, codenamed VID3. Opposed to the idea of extending the original GUI engine (VID), a new one was created, where the goal was completeness and where it wouldn't be very difficult to produce certain mundane UI elements as is the case in the original VID.
I worked on the skin for VID3, but the developer, Gabriele Santilli was then moved to QTask (a very large project management system written in REBOL, available at qtask.com), and so, little development happened on it during those last months of 2007.
During this came a big discussion on modules, or how to construct separate name spaces for separate code modules. Carl worked on this on and off and finally declared, that it would be postponed until later in the development phase.
Around Christmas 2007, REBOL 3 alpha was released to the public for Windows only.
In early 2008, a it was discovered that supporting unicode would either require some slap-on extra datatypes in the language, making unicode a special case or it would require rewrites of major parts of the kernel for proper support.
Given REBOL's design philosophy, things are not slapped onto REBOL 3, so it took two months to do this rewrite. REBOL 3 now supported unicode from the bottom up:
After this, we started to look at the GUI again and Carl noticed complexity problems of VID3, one of which was that it was over 80 kb in size. Now, for those of you who are used to Java or Python or whatever, this would be completely unimportant and irrelevant, but one of the main features right at the heart of REBOL is absurdly small script sizes.
Carl scrapped VID3 and began writing his own GUI engine, codenamed VID3.4. Three months later he published an internal alpha of that engine which does nearly the same stuff, but only being less than 20 kb in size!
In August 2008, I began writing skins for this engine and found it to be easier to work with than VID3 and it was not hard to see how much work had been put into the design of the GUI engine: Every time we requested a new feature, it is a question of adding 2-5 lines of code in one place. I worked on the skin until december 2008 where I had to go work on another project and expect to return in March for finishing the skin. At this time, VID3.4 still has some layout bugs, so if you try it, please be forgiving, and the skin is one of Carls colorful ideas. :-)
A very early version of the official skin can be seen here:
In the meanwhile, Carl saw that it was important to release REBOL 3 on a larger scale, so he began working on RebDev. RebDev is a kind of BBS with built-in filesharing and source repository and it can work in a plain text console or in a browser.
Since mid-January 2009 it has been Carl's primary form of communication with the community. RebDev is the successor to DevBase, which is an earlier attempt at an open code repository.
You can start RebDev by typing "chat" in the console, when R3 starts.
Until RebDev came along, development happened in a darknet with only a few select people allowed to join. At the moment, adding new user accounts is frozen due to a problem with adding user accounts with Unicode names.
Where do we stand?
There is a lot of work left to do and these are not easy problems to solve. Modules and threads are the biggest issues as well as fixing almost 300 bugs in the bug database, available here:
Every single schedule has slipped since day one, so saying that REBOL 3 will be released as beta on a specific date is impossible at this time. Since first alpha, over 80 releases have been made. But there is a plan and if you follow the outline of that plan, well, things are going as planned. You can't make a time table from that plan :-)
I use REBOL full time for projects, so it fullfills my promises. Documentation is always being fought for and this is one of the most painful aspects of REBOL 2, given that some really nice features in the port system are completely undocumented and are still secret.
Had I had proper documentation years ago, I'm sure that I would have learned many of its secrets in much shorter time. This is why some developers spend time teaching newcomers about fallacies in REBOL 2. The best thing a newcomer can do, is ask questions.
What is everyone missing?
I won't comment on the OS, but REBOL is one heck of a rabbit hole to fall into, and it's very, very deep. It made me very productive, compared to other languages and it's a wonderful glue language. It's best shown by demoing REBOL rather than talking about it:
http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/old/movies/rebol.html (requires flash)
What is even better is that the Syllable devs have been busily coding away on an open-source clone of Rebol, called "Orca". Here's the link -
Although that site says that the "Orca creator has stopped the development of Orca to focus his efforts on Thune." - the project is still going. Kaj (one of the devs mentioned on that page) is (iirc) Kaj de Vos, one of the Syllable devs.
Good on the Syllable devs for daring to be different and doing stuff like this!


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Obviously, we're in the final days now of the Torch relay, but London is still seeing some of the action as the flaming symbol makes its way to East London. The app will tell you where to go and, it has to be said, is clearer and easier than the official Olympics website, which is the usual mess that comes out of any sports event, devoid of both humor and passion.
Perhaps most charming is the abundance of information about community events in your area. It's here that the whole Olympic machine is less obvious, and people can get together to enjoy a bit of sport, and hopefully celebrate some British wins. There's also plenty of chances to celebrate other cultures too, so everyone should be able to get something from this app.
Events, places and sports can all be bookmarked, so you can get a notification when events you're interested in are about to start. That applies to everything, which is great if you want to be told when the Torch relay passes, or a local party starts. There are also photos of the events that have already happened, and they're great quality too. As events progress, you get to see more and more.
You'll also find event venue information, which tells you where the Visa-sponsored cash machines are, and how to find the Coke-sponsored urinals.
Of course, it's not perfect. For one, there's a pretty chunky database involved in accessing the data, this isn't part of the original download, but has to be delivered after. If you don't start the app when you're connected to Wi-Fi, you'll hammer your data tariff to the tune of nearly 100MB. Plus, the app contains all the usual sponsorship nonsense from the main, international sponsors.
The other issue is that to get results, you need a separate results app. We'll look at that soon too, but we can't see why all of this isn't in one, single, 2012 app. Still, the Join In app provides plenty of info, a valuable reminder system and generally feels less corporate than most Olympic things we've encountered so far. Apart from when you shake your phone, and those hell escapees Wenlock and Mandeville pitch up and do something stupid on the screen.

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Early detection and aggressive treatment are essential in the successful management of this tumor, which emphasizes the importance of a rectal examination as part of a routine physical examination in all animals. Treatment typically requires a multimodal approach involving surgery, radiation, and, potentially, chemotherapy.
SIGNALMENT AND CLINICAL PRESENTATIONAnal sac adenocarcinoma occurs primarily in older dogs, with an average age of 10.5 years.2 Historically, female dogs were reported to be predisposed to anal sac adenocarcinoma.3 However, most recent retrospective studies have shown an equal sex distribution between spayed females and castrated males.2,4-8 Interestingly, a study of 810 British dogs with anal sac adenocarcinoma found that intact males were less likely to develop this tumor, suggesting a possible protective effect of testosterone.9 Several breeds have been reported as overrepresented, including cocker spaniels, springer spaniels, German shepherds, dachshunds, and Alaskan malamutes.2
Owners or groomers may be the first to notice perineal swelling or discomfort. The primary anal sac mass or enlarged iliac lymph nodes may cause constipation, obstipation, tenesmus, dyschezia, or ribbonlike stools. Earlier clinical signs are not always noticed by owners but can include scooting and excessive licking of the perineal area. Polyuria, polydipsia, anorexia, and lethargy can be seen secondary to hypercalcemia of malignancy, a common sequela of anal sac adenocarcinoma, although not all dogs with hypercalcemia will display such clinical signs. Anal sac adenocarcinoma can also be an incidental finding on rectal examination in a high proportion of affected dogs.8 On occasion, the anal sac mass may be small compared with the size of the metastatic iliac lymph nodes, so an abdominal ultrasonographic examination with careful attention to the sublumbar area is recommended when an anal sac mass is palpated or in cases of hypercalcemia of unknown origin.8
In most cases, a physical examination will reveal a perianal mass associated with one or both anal sacs. Occasionally, a mass may not be appreciated externally, so a thorough digital rectal examination is advised in all dogs. Enlarged iliac lymph nodes may be palpable on rectal examination in cases of metastatic or reactive lymphadenopathy, but this enlargement can be difficult to detect in larger dogs or in cases in which the enlargement is subtle.


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Rivaroxaban is a type of blood thinner (anticoagulant). It prevents blood clots by blocking a blood clotting factor (Factor Xa) from working. Clotting factors are substances that make blood clot.
Rivaroxaban is used to treat deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
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Rivaroxaban effectively treats deep vein thrombosis and helps prevent it from happening again.1
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The former principal of the Coppin Academy High School pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing more than $10,000 from a student activity fund and using the money to pay wedding and other expenses.
William L. Howard II, 37, entered his plea in Baltimore Circuit Court and received probation before judgment. He was sentenced to serve four years probation and 150 hours community service and to pay back the money, which he did on the spot.
Howard's case was pursued by the office of the state prosecutor, which investigates corruption and public misdeeds.
"The idea of stealing money from a student activity fund is just an egregious offense," State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt said after the hearing.
His office had recommended a stiffer sentence: a two-year suspended prison term and 300 hours of community service.
At one point as he entered his plea, Howard told the court he needed to sit down and appeared to be sweating and used a scarf to mop his face. He declined to comment after the hearing, but his attorney said he was "happy to move beyond this."
Howard, who was principal at Coppin Academy between 2004 and 2008, stole the money after moving on to a new job as an administrator at Saint Mary's College of Maryland.
Between April 2011 and November 2011, Howard siphoned the money off in four installments, making electronic transfers from the student fund to his personal bank account and a joint-account with his fiancee they were using to pay for their wedding.
Howard made one of the transfers in May 2011 and he told investigators that he "may have bought himself a 'graduation gift'" that month, court documents say. It was not clear what kind of program he had graduated from.
The state prosecutor's office received a tip about the thefts in August 2012, but Howard told investigators that October there must have been a "mix up" and that the transactions had been made by mistake.


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On the surface, the program isn't what one might expect in an outpatient medical center. The teacher isn't a martial arts instructor - she's a respiratory therapist. Actually the demonstration has nothing to do with the latest asthma inhaler or breathing device either.
What's obvious however is a light-hearted sense of playfulness and an eager desire to get started. After a short demo and a quick explanation of the ground rules, the instructor proceeds to pass out the tools. The children can't wait to get started - surprising you might think, especially since the children are in a medical setting.
Reaching into small burlap bags, each child pulls out his/her own recorder (plastic flute-like instruments we called flutaphones when I was in elementary school). Scurrying to assume the proper finger positions, the younger children receive guidance from the therapist and the older children. Soon everyone's making steady progress.
As anticipation gives way to smiles, each child has a chance to play a few notes. Laughter sets the tone as those first high-pitched screeching sounds (you know the ones) resound with each initial attempt. The instructor capitalizes on the moment by suddenly blowing as hard as she can into her instrument.
The children cringe, startle for a moment and look at each other in surprise. The room is silenced. Actually so is the waiting room. The therapist in the karate uniform has everyone's attention.
Without missing a beat (pardon the pun) she carefully explains and demonstrates that blowing lightly and evenly into the recorder is all that's needed to produce melodious sounds.
One child immediately blurts out, "I get it . . . it's like when I get an asthma attack. I try to breathe as hard as I can, and then I start choking. I feel so bad when my inhaler doesn't work . . . it's so scary!"
"Exactly!" the instructor responds. "That's why we're doing this in the first place. When you get frightened or worried, your breathing gets worse. When you learn to relax, you do better. Breathe hard and you get noise, breathe gently and you have music!"
Within minutes musical notes and even semblances of scales are recognizable. Soon sustained notes and multiple notes are played with slow, deep and relaxed breaths. As the parents enter the room, it's obvious everyone is immersed in a fun-filled experience.
Yet something equally important is also happening. The children, thoroughly enjoying the music-making exercise, are actually performing breathing exercises which have great potential for helping them improve the quality of their lives. They're also succeeding at something few asthmatic children ever dream of - using their breath to make music. And they're delighting in the experience!
The scenario I just presented is from our EMPOWER Asthma Management Program for children and their parents. A comprehensive series of educational sessions based on the 1997 National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines, EMPOWER uses a self-defense theme - a monkey dressed in a karate uniform as the program's icon. The EMPOWER staff guides each child and his/her parents through a series of 6 creative learning sessions. Upon completion, each child receives a black belt in asthma from a respiratory therapist wearing a karate uniform.
Designed to help children and their families, the program offers a host of insights and perspectives focused on effective prevention and treatment. These include understanding the fundamentals of asthma, recognizing and avoiding asthma triggers, learning to use asthma tools and medications correctly, enhancing communications with healthcare providers and dealing with often overwhelming issues such as stress and self-esteem.
And that's precisely where music-making comes in. In addition to playing the recorder, children also discover a unique means for developing a relaxed breathing rhythm that can help them stay calm and focused in the event of an asthma attack. Each child learns to play the drum through a delightful series of exercises that build self-esteem, camaraderie and a needed, yet often overlooked, sense of control.
While combining music-making with asthma may seem like a new and innovative approach, I remain inspired by a story from years past. A child facing the extraordinary challenges of asthma in an era when treatment approaches were yet to be discovered was given a simple prescription. His doctor suggested playing a wind instrument. Taking that order seriously, his mother, a violin teacher, lovingly taught him to control his breathing through rhythm. I wonder if that physician ever realized that a prescribed series of clarinet lessons would later EMPOWER his patient to overcome asthma and achieve success as an accomplished musician. After years of renowned leadership in the music instruments industry, he is recognized today as the Father of the Music-Making and Wellness Movement. It was through Karl T. Bruhn's caring, understanding and vision of music-making as a therapeutic intervention that Remo Inc. and Yamaha Corporation of America supported our program by providing drums and recorders.
As a physician and a chronic asthma sufferer, I find it exciting and rewarding to blend conventional medical approaches with creative music-making strategies that can improve the quality of life for each child facing the challenges of asthma. If you saw their smiles and heard their music, I'm certain you'd agree
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As we reach the end of the year, it is a good time to reflect on what happened agriculturally in the region and across the United States in 2012. This will be a two-part article, with a review of 2012 crop production and weather conditions this week, and a review of livestock production, input costs and grain prices next week.
Crop Production
2012 will be remembered as the year of the drought, and a crop year with weather extremes and highly variable crop conditions in many areas of Minnesota. The year started out with earlier-than-normal corn planting in most of the state, with a large majority corn planted in April or very early May. Warmer-than-normal temperatures, along with adequate topsoil moisture, resulted in excellent crop germination and allowed the 2012 corn and soybean crop to get off to a good start. The month of May had 150-200% of normal rainfall in much of the southern half of Minnesota, which allowed for restoration of stored soil moisture levels to near capacity levels in many areas. The soil moisture reserves proved to be quite beneficial later in the growing season, which featured well-below-normal precipitation levels in most areas after mid-June. The very warm, dry weather pattern throughout much of the growing season lead to rapid development, maturity and drydown of the 2012 corn and soybean crop, which resulted in an early harvest season.
In most areas of south-central and southwestern Minnesota, the 2012 crop yields were highly variable, mainly due to the extremes in weather conditions during the growing season. Whole-field corn yields generally ranged from 140 to 190 bu./acre, while whole-field soybean yields were mostly in a range from 35 to 55 bu./acre, with some exceptional yields exceeding these ranges. There were large yield variations in 2012, sometimes occurring on the same farm, in the same township or even in the same field. Some lower whole-field yield levels existed in areas that were hard-hit by the very dry late season weather pattern, or by severe storms earlier in the growing season. Some higher yield levels occurred in west-central and southeastern Minnesota, which received more timely rainfall, and had a bit more favorable growing conditions later in the growing season.
Other good news with the 2012corn harvest, besides the better-than-expected yields, was the dryness of the corn and the quality of the corn at harvest. Most of the corn harvested in southern Minnesota in September and early October was at moisture levels of 13-17%, so it could go directly to farm grain bins without additional drying, or could be hauled to grain warehouses with little or no price dockage for excess kernel moisture. Most of the 2012 corn crop was also harvested with a test weight of 56-60 lbs./bu., which is at or above the standard test weight of 56 lbs.
Based on the most recent USDA crop report, the estimated 2012 corn yield for Minnesota is 168 bu./acre, which is the highest of the major corn-producing states in the U.S., and is well above the projected 2012 national average corn yield of 122.3 bu. Other drought-reduced 2012 average USDA corn yield estimates are Iowa at 139 bu., Illinois at 101 bu., Indiana at 100 bu., Nebraska at 139 bu. and South Dakota at 94 bu. All of these estimated 2012 statewide corn yields are well below average statewide yields in recent years. The projected 2012 Minnesota corn yield of 168 bu. is an increase of 12 bu. from the 2011 statewide corn yield of 156 bu./acre, but is still well below Minnesota's record average corn yield of 177 bu. in 2010.
USDA is estimating the average national soybean yield for 2012 at 39.3 bu./acre, which is well below recent national average soybean yields of 41.9 bu. in 2011, 43.5 bu. in 2010, and the record U.S. soybean yield of 44.0 bu. in 2009. USDA estimated the 2012 Minnesota soybean yield at 43 bu., which is an increase of 4 bu. from the 2011 Minnesota soybean yield of 39 bu., but is still below the state record soybean yield of 45 bu./acre, set in 2010. The 2012 Iowa soybean yield is estimated at 44 bu./acre, compared to 51.5 bu. in 2011.
Drought Conditions Persist
The continued drought across the region and much of the primary crop growing areas of the U.S. is certainly a concern as we look forward to the 2013 growing season. Stored soil moisture levels in most of southern and western Minnesota are at historically low levels. Nearly all reporting stations have 2 in. or less of stored soil moisture in the top 5 ft. of soil, compared to normal levels of 6-8 in. of stored soil moisture following the growing season. Most of southwest and south-central Minnesota is listed as being in an extreme drought, according to the latest national Drought Monitor estimates, with nearly the entire state categorized as being in a moderate, severe or extreme drought. In December 2011, about 57% of the state was categorized in a moderate drought or worse, with no areas of the state considered to be in an extreme drought. The ongoing drought conditions are also highly visible with the extremely low levels of lakes, rivers and streams across many areas of Minnesota.
According to precipitation data at the University of Minnesota Southern Research Center at Waseca, the region has been in drought-like conditions for the past 16 months. From Aug. 1, 2011 to Nov. 30, 2012, Waseca has received only about 60% of their normal precipitation during that period, receiving nearly 19 in. of total precipitation less than normal. For the three-month period from July 1 to Sept. 30, 2012, Waseca received only 4.49 in. of total rainfall, compared to a normal amount of 12.24 in., which is 37% of normal. Some areas of western south-central Minnesota and southwestern Minnesota received even less rainfall than Waseca during that period.
The only two months in 2012 that Waseca received significantly above-normal precipitation were in May with +1.81 in., and in February with +1.29 in., with nearly 2 in. coming as rainfall on Feb. 29. Those two months helped replenish depleted stored soil moisture supplies, which ultimately helped lead to the better-than-expected 2012 corn and soybean yields in many areas of southern Minnesota, even though the later growing season was extremely dry. The region will need a similar occurrence in 2013 in order to achieve favorable crop yields again next year.
Editor's note: Kent Thiesse is a former University of Minnesota Extension educator and now is Vice President of MinnStar Bank, Lake Crystal, MN. You can contact him at 507-726-2137 or via e-mail at [email protected]


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An American Master Returns to Broadway
Golden Boy
Lincoln Center Theater, Belasco Theatre, 111 W. 44th St.
($37-$127), 212-239-6200/ 800-432-7250, closes Jan. 20
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Clifford Odets didn't make it easy on posterity. Born in 1906, he'd already written two major plays by the age of 31, and turned up on the cover of Time a year after that. Then Hollywood got its claws into him, and he spent the rest of his life knocking out good, bad and indifferent screenplays for money, trying vainly to repeat the twin successes of "Awake and Sing!" and "Golden Boy" when not preoccupied with studio hackwork. In time his theatrical reputation faded to black, and first-class revivals of his youthful masterpieces are now degradingly rare. Except for a 1964 musical version that starred Sammy Davis Jr., "Golden Boy" hasn't been seen on Broadway since 1952. Now Lincoln Center Theater has brought it back to the Belasco Theater, where the play was first performed 75 years ago, and given it a production of the utmost splendor and compulsion. Watching it is like standing in front of a blowtorch.
Time was when everybody knew the plot of "Golden Boy," in part because it was later turned into the film that made 21-year-old William Holden a star. In the 1939 screen version, Mr. Holden was cast in the central role of Joe Bonaparte (now played onstage by Seth Numrich), a talented young Italian-American violinist who hates the emasculating poverty into which he was born and seeks to escape it by becoming a lightweight boxer, thereby horrifying his music-loving father (Tony Shalhoub). Joe inevitably falls among thieves, the worst of whom is a murderous gangster (Anthony Crivello) who uses the boy's hunger for fame to set him on a path that leads away from the "truthful success" for which his father longs.
Why did it take so long for "Golden Boy" to be revived? The obvious reason is that it has 19 speaking roles and requires five sets, making it impossible to produce commercially other than at ruinous expense. Beyond that, the cornball plot, if taken at face value, is the stuff of parody. But if you instead approach "Golden Boy" as you would an opera, you'll find that Mr. Odets knew exactly what he was doing. "Golden Boy" is a true and telling parable of American ambition, a tale in which the ordinary is made extraordinary by transposing it into an emotional key so high that you almost expect the actors to break into song.
It is Mr. Odets's language, here as always, that makes the dramatic contrivances of "Golden Boy" not merely plausible but irresistible. Better than any other American playwright, he understood how to take the coarse immigrant patter of the streets of New York and hone it like an uncut diamond that longs for the chisel. The script of "Golden Boy" is full of rock-hard lines whose rhythms are truer than true: "If you hear a noise, it's my mouth watering." "I'm just a little silver mine for him—he bangs me around with a shovel!" "A year ago Bonaparte was nothing but a rookie with a two-pants suit." Each one is a piece in a richly colored mosaic of character that tells you all you need to know about everyone in the play.
Director Bartlett Sher's otherwise impressive 2006 Broadway revival of "Awake and Sing!" was undercut by Michael Yeargan's self-consciously symbolic set. This time around, Messrs. Sher and Yeargan have kept things simple enough that you're never distracted from the magnetic performances of the cast, which is as consistently fine as any I've ever seen on a Broadway stage. Mr. Shalhoub takes top honors by a nose, playing Joe's father with massively gentle dignity, but Yvonne Strahovski is inches behind him as Lorna, the self-styled "tramp from Newark" who falls for Joe very much against her will. Mr. Numrich is just right, while Mr. Crivello oozes viciousness from every pore. Catherine Zuber's period costumes are without flaw—Lorna's shoes deserve a special Tony all to themselves.
I can't praise Lincoln Center Theater too strongly for daring to revive a near-forgotten, expensive-to-mount play like "Golden Boy," then giving it a production so unostentatiously true to the script that you'll scarcely spend any time at all being impressed by the excellence of its staging. All you'll see is the play, and you'll go home wondering why nobody ever told you how great "Golden Boy" is.
The Anarchist
Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.
($59-$134.50), 212-239-6200/
800-432-7250, closes Dec. 16
"The Anarchist," David Mamet's new play, is a 70-minute-long debate between a hard-left domestic terrorist (Patti LuPone) who has spent 35 years in prison for murdering two policemen and her Grand Inquisitress, the parole officer (Debra Winger) who is resolved to keep her there until she breathes her last. On paper it's an intellectual skirmish about the nature of political fanaticism, written in a stilted style (no four-letter words, a minimum of contractions) that sounds deliberately artificial: "One might think the pressing study would be patience. But patience, of course, implies an end."
While the issues at stake are sufficiently dramatic in and of themselves to make for an interesting night at the theater, Mr. Mamet, who is on record as believing that "the director is not primary in the theater" and "could, indeed, be disposed of," has made the suicidal decision to direct "The Anarchist" himself. The flat, bald results suggest a Socratic dialogue staged in the just-the-facts-ma'am manner of an episode of "Dragnet," only without close-ups. Ms. Winger, a stage novice, is in desperate need of the creative guidance that a smart director can give, while Ms. LuPone, who has never given a dull performance in her life, fails to catch fire.
—Mr. Teachout, the Journal's drama critic, blogs about theater and the other arts at www.terryteachout.com. Write to him at email@example.com.
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Cecilia Malmström
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An Intense first year for the European Cybercrime Centre
Press Conference
Brussels, 10 February 2014
The EC3 was created within Europol only year ago as the EU focal point in the fight against cybercrime. The Centre was set up to help protect European citizens and businesses. During the short period in which the Centre has been active, it has already gained a well-deserved reputation in the EU and beyond the Union's borders.
Today, together with the head of the Centre we are presenting the first year's activity report and I would like to thank Troels Oerting for the excellent work done. Let me also thank Europol's director, Rob Wainwright, for his help in the successful establishment of the EC3.
When inaugurating the EC3 last year, I said that cybercriminals are smart and know how to quickly take advantage of new technologies, so we had to become even smarter and quicker if we want to effectively prevent and fight these threats.
EC3 seems to be the right answer and its helping to boost Member States' effectiveness in fighting cyber-criminals.
As the report illustrates, our cyber-experts have built their reputation on a number of very successful actions and operations. Let me give you some concrete examples.
The European Cybercrime Centre assisted in the coordination of two major international investigations on Ransomware, where criminals infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide and realized profits for over one million euros per year. EC3 also supported several international initiatives in the areas of botnet takedowns, and malware attacks against financial institutions.
Significant efforts were also put on the combating of online sexual exploitation of children. At present, EC3 supports 9 large child sexual exploitation operations within the European Union. In the first year of EC3, significant efforts – jointly with many Member States and non-EU cooperation partners – were put into combating the illegal activities of paedophiles engaged in the online sexual exploitation of children using hidden services.
EC3 is also involved in many operations and joint investigations targeting the production and distribution of child abuse material on various internet platforms. It is providing ongoing operational and analytical support to investigations on the dark net, where paedophiles trade in illicit child abuse material in hidden forums, as well as to investigations into 'sextortion'. Sextortion is the term given to the phenomenon where child abusers gain access to inappropriate pictures of minors and use the images to coerce victims into further acts or the abuser will forward the images to family and friends of the victim.
Last but not least, the EC3 supported investigations resulting in three different international networks of credit card fraudsters being dismantled and tens of suspects being arrested.
We would be ingenuous if we believed that what we are doing will suffice. We are witnessing a fast evolution of criminal behaviours and patterns, exploiting technology developments and existing legal loopholes. Our experts are constantly spotting new, evolved threats on the horizon.
We hear of companies who are blackmailed by hackers, threatening to run attacks against their information systems. There is evidence that easier video streaming makes it possible for offenders to orchestrate child abuse, taking place at distance in real time and follow it via webcams.
The sad reality is that, today, the threshold for committing cybercrime has decreased immensely in the past few years: anyone can become a cybercriminal. No technical skills are necessary, as the relevant tools are available online in user-friendly versions at reasonable prices, offering anyone the opportunity to commit cybercrimes.
It is estimated that cybercrime is among the most underreported offences. Victims frequently have no incentive to report, for example because they are ashamed of having become a victim of a scam or because they are reimbursed by their banks. It is a low-value, high-volume crime. Service providers, meanwhile, have a reputation to lose and fear exposure to copycat attacks. This has to change.
Moreover, criminals act from "safe" locations. As cyberspace is accessible from anywhere, the threat also both comes from, and affects, countries with which judicial cooperation has traditionally been limited. With global connectivity rapidly increasing, the number of victims and the number of cybercriminals from new regions are also on the rise.
And cybercriminals become more and more difficult to track down as their location and the location of their data can be hidden ever more effectively.
Software has become available for masking IPs that requires lengthy investigations to determine the true location of data, if it can be found at all. Cloud services, which has great benefits for you and me as consumers, can also allow criminals to avoid storing illegal material on their own computer.
And even when criminals can be identified, law enforcement authorities face huge difficulties in gathering the necessary evidence. Collection is hampered by the possibilities offered by modern technology, such as live streaming.
And all of this is happening while our perception of the cyberspace environment has changed dramatically over the past year. After the Snowden revelations, European citizens are even more concerned about the protection of their privacy and personal data in cyberspace.
This is why we must make sure that well-established fundamental rights principles are properly applied to new technological developments.
So, to conclude, our cyber-experts have given an important contribution to safeguard the open Internet and the digital economy, and to protect Europe's citizens and businesses online.
Thanks to the work of the European Cybercrime Centre, we are able to work together effectively and timely at European and international level. We are protecting EU citizens online by identifying the most dangerous cybercrime threat and the key cybercriminal groups at EU level.
I am sure that we will continue to build on this initial success. We have had a successful and intense first year. The EC3 has delivered on its promises and achieved its initial goals. Building on this foundation, we have to make sure that the EC3 can continue to be at the forefront of the fight against cybercrime in the EU, also in the years to come.
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The local region has bucked a lot of national trends in recent years.
The local region has bucked a lot of national trends in recent years.
More particularly, some of the turmoil that has affected the nation has been less evident or even absent here.
Building-permit numbers bear this out and point to even better times to come.
We weathered the economic downturn much better than most places around the U.S.
And we have continued to enjoy a healthy jobs picture and good real-estate prices while much of the country saw chaotic losses on both fronts.
We know we have enjoyed the great fortune of having the robust oil-and-gas industry play such a huge part in the local economy.
It has maintained a demand for skilled workers and promises to keep that demand well into the future.
Because of that, real-estate has kept its value and even risen as we've watched horror stories in other regions of falling real-estate values and the disruption it can cause in local economies.
The number of residential building permits issued this year in Terrebonne Parish are up 60 percent from a year ago — from 80 to 128. The numbers in Lafourche tell a similarly impressive story. They have gone from 74 to 98, a 30 percent increase.
Those numbers are significant in themselves.
They mean that people have built or are building dozens more homes than last year.
This equates to jobs for laborers, tax revenue for local governments and profits for the homebuilders.
That is a ripple effect that is more than welcome.
The numbers, though, also tell a deeper, more-significant story than the direct and indirect impact of the homes themselves.
The fact that more people are building homes here means there is a perceived value to local real estate. People believe that if they build homes here, they will hold and increase their value.
This belief is based on the good news we are continuing to enjoy.
Our economy is strong, and our region is looking forward to an even brighter future.
"When people have a positive mental attitude, they build and buy houses," said Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet.
We have kept that good trend going even as communities elsewhere have struggled to keep from losing ground.
It is just a part of why we love living here, but it is an important part of why our secret is a difficult one to keep.
Here's to continued success.
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Hello DIYers,
I have just ordered my Overnight Sensation MTMs for my left, right, and centre channels! I have the cabinets about 80% done, just have the finishing to do. I am doing the sides and top in an ash veneer that I am staining "weathered gray" and am just doing the front panel with gloss black.
I will post photos and build progress in a new thread!


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On the edge of Yellowstone National Park, Montana's first buffalo hunt in 15 years is underway. For each licensed buffalo hunter there is a herd of observers. Hunting with an entourage only works if the prey doesn't run away.
"Buffalo have evolved to face danger and rarely run from predators," says Mike Mease of the Buffalo Field Campaign. Mease was at the scene when the first bull buffalo of the season was shot and killed by a hunter from Belgrade.
"It took four shots," says Mease, "and 30 minutes" for the bull to die.
I recently joined a buffalo hunting party, of sorts. Among us, we didn't have a square inch of hunter orange. We had no tags, and we weren't technically hunting. Still, our experience sheds light on the act of stalking and killing a buffalo.
"We'll go out there and knock one down," explains Bernard Hakes, a buffalo rancher in Ronan. "Then I'll come back with the tractor."
We pile into the king cab of his pickup truck, which eases through a gate and into the pasture. We drive slowly, as if ambling about on no particular mission. As we approach the buffalo, a herd of faces regards us.
Faces are often cited as dietary criteria among vegetarians. "I don't eat anything with a face," some say. This can lead to questions like, "Does a lobster have a face?"
Is a face just a checklist of parts, or does a face convey expression and suggest thoughtfulness, understanding?
Three hundred buffalo faces stare back at us as we decide which one to kill. Each face is different.
"That one with her tail up and the yellow tag in her ear," suggests Jack, organizer of this buffalo harvest. "She's nice."
"Yeah, she is," agrees Hakes, "and that's her calf next to her, too young to lose her mother."
Although Hakes has federal permission to let people kill their own buffalo on his land, and roughly 80 percent of his clients do so, pulling the trigger is not why we're here. We want the meat and the hide. We don't want to alarm the herd, and we want to minimize suffering with a quick, clean death, with no adrenaline pumping through her veins. While any yahoo can pull the trigger on a sitting duck, that doesn't mean they'll get her done right. It's a job for Hakes.
Our pickup slowly circles the herd, positioning for a shot at an enormous 3-year-old cow buffalo. When there is a clear shot, Hakes pulls his Remington 7mm magnum from the gun rack. He leans the gun on the window.
The herd trots away.
"We'll head 'em off at the pass," Hakes says as we amble away from the herd, through a gate and back around toward the shallow draw where they're headed.
After another near-shot, the slow-motion chase continues for another 30 minutes. Hakes shows no intention of taking a shot that isn't ideal.
We stalk in close again. Hakes rests his gun on the open window frame as sub-zero air fills the cab. He fires at a vertebra in the cow's neck and she collapses into herself straight down in a lifeless pile.
"You take your time," says Hakes, "and that's what they're supposed to do."
The herd trots away, but doesn't go far.
Hakes is on the ground with his knife, opening her throat so that her body's five gallons of blood can gush out. Jack sprinkles tobacco on her forehead. Hakes pats her on the neck. "Thanks, old girl," he says.
I reach out and put my hand on her cheek. When I touch her wooly face, a single tear gushes from her eye, leaving a watery trail.
Although only one of us pulled the trigger, we're all party to a kill. When you eat meat, you are too.
"I'll go get the tractor," says Hakes. "You guys stick around and keep away the rest of the herd. Otherwise they'll come back and try to get her up. That's what they do with their sick or wounded. They'll even kick 'em, rather than leave them behind. Better to die at the hooves of your own than [get] eaten alive by wolves."
I saw similar behavior on the video of the bison hunt, at which point the hunting party threw rocks to chase them away.
Hakes guts the buffalo and we drop her off at the meat cutter. Then we go home, wash our hands and cook up the final package of last year's buffalo, freshly thawed.
As the snot in our noses begins to thaw, we rub buffalo steaks with a dry spice rub made of 1/4 cup chili powder, 1/4 cup ground cumin, 1/4 cup ground coriander, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons red pepper flakes, 2 tablespoons freshly ground black pepper and 1 tablespoon coarse salt, and fry them in oil. Then we give thanks for the flavor and life force of the warm meat.


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SUV Deals: May 2013
With so many choices, it can be hard to pick the right SUV. Fortunately, our list of SUV deals will help shoppers find a good deal. That's because we've rounded up today's top incentives on some of our favorite new models for drivers interested in buying or leasing a new SUV this month.
Dodge Durango
The full-size Dodge Durango SUV offers 3-row seating and available V8 power. In May, it's available with several incentives. The best deals on the Durango are cash-back offers for buyers paying in full. Through the end of the month, shoppers can get up to $2,500 back on most Durango models or $3,500 off the upscale Durango R/T. Drivers interested in financing the Durango can also get a good deal, as Dodge is offering zero percent interest for up to 36 months -- an offer that adds $1,000 cash back for the R/T trim. Shoppers can also lease a Durango SXT for 39 months with payments from $319 per month after $2,999 down at lease signing.
Honda Pilot
The Honda Pilot is a midsize SUV with standard 3-row seating. Through the end of May, it's offered to qualified buyers with interest rates as low as 0.9 percent for up to 60 months. Shoppers looking to lease their next SUV can also get two incentives on the Pilot this month. Drivers searching for the lowest payment can get a 36-month term on the Pilot LX with payments from just $269 per month. That deal requires $2,499 down at lease signing. For those who would rather put nothing down, Honda is offering a 36-month lease on the Pilot LX with zero down and payments from $330 per month.
Hyundai Tucson
The Hyundai Tucson is a fuel-efficient compact SUV that rivals the Honda CR-V and Ford Escape. In May, it's available with a host of incentives. The best deal is a lease offer on the mid-level Tucson GLS. That model is available with payments from $309 per month for 36 months -- a deal that requires nothing down at lease signing. Those looking to finance a Tucson can also get a good deal, as Hyundai is offering interest rates as low as 2.9 percent for up to 60 months. And for returning Hyundai customers, the Tucson is available with up to $500 cash back.
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Nissan Rogue
The Nissan Rogue is a compact SUV with a fuel-efficient 4-cylinder engine. In May, it's available with three special offers. The best deal is for shoppers looking to lease. Those drivers can get a 39-month deal on a Rogue with nothing down and payments starting at $329 per month. For drivers who would rather finance, Nissan is offering the Rogue to qualified buyers at zero percent interest for up to 36 months. And shoppers paying in full can get up to $2,800 cash back -- a big number for an SUV that starts around $23,000.
Subaru Forester
Several good deals are available on the compact Subaru Forester, since it's being replaced by an all-new model for 2014. The best deals are for buyers looking to finance the 2013 Forester. For qualified buyers, Subaru is offering the crossover with zero percent interest for up to 36 months. Lease shoppers can also get a deal throughout the end of May. Drivers who put down $1,929 at lease signing can get a 42-month term with payments from $229 per month. That's a good price -- and it's even better when you consider the Forester includes all-wheel drive standard, unlike most rivals.
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Toyota Highlander
The Toyota Highlander is among the most popular midsize crossovers on the market. In May, it's available with three incentives. The best is for shoppers interested in financing the SUV. Through the end of the month, qualified buyers can get interest rates as low as zero percent on the Highlander for up to 60 months. Toyota is also offering a 36-month lease deal on the Highlander in May. Shoppers who put down $2,678 at lease signing can get payments as low as $279 per month. There's no cash-back deal for those paying in full, though we think most cash buyers would probably be better served by Toyota's 36-month, zero-percent interest deal.
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What it means to you: Shoppers searching for SUV deals in May should consult our list before they visit a dealership.
Incentives can vary based on where you live, so residency restrictions may apply. Also, only buyers with very good credit will qualify for most of these deals. Not all incentives are available to all customers.


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http://www.adt.org.au/page/default.asp?site=1&page=588&id=588 [sorry, can't find many pics!]
Light Scaffolds:
Three large structures hung from tracks across the ceiling. Each segmented into three rectangular frame boxes containing spots, linked by a system of pistons that could be maneuvered individually, as well as along the tracks..
These would move according to the action happening onstage, lighting and often interacting with the dancers.
Light pylons:
Lights attached to articulated arms that would move and strobe. These mainly functioned as directional lighting.
chittering six legged creatures moving across the stage counterpointed by a lone naked human at the centre. long power cables going up to the ceiling, gradually drag bugs back and into air where they spin, two to an axis, sometimes colliding.
Large Mobile Claws: Two eight [six?] legged machines with a central jointed articulated arm with claw like appendage and lights. moves, interacts with dancers, then seem to interact with each other, move back to position.
Ceiling Column: extends from ceiling with lights on the end, jointed and flexible, like a caterpillar.
Several kinds.. back 'whip' extension, would move independently on a system of small pistons as the dancer threw herself about.
Leg extensions moved in choreography as the dancer held himself in a headstand coming off the feet [the dancer got into position by dragging himself across the stage].
chest and arm extensions, several people wore these and the extensions moved in sync.
In total, the effect of the extensions was to 'extend' the human bodies in unusual ways, forcing the dancers to incorporate and move with the machinic phylum into their own flesh..


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Milford's Colt Williamson is having a busy summer playing tennis.
Milford HS rising sophomore Colt Williamson recently won the Boys 16 singles and also the B18 doubles with his partner Nikola Sijan at the USTA Delaware Junior State Championships.
They both have trained in Gabby Brengle's drill groups in Dover for several years.
Colt followed that up with a win this week in the Wilmington City Clay Court Boys 16 singles again at Wilmington C. C.
He's been under the weather lately, so he'll take some time off before participating in the USTA level 6 in Lansdale, PA.


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Artificial Intelligence: Engineering, Science Or Slogan?
by Nilsson, Nils J.
Technical Note 248
Institution: AI Center, SRI International
Address: 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025
Jul 1981.
This paper presents the view that artificial intelligence (AI) is primarily concerned with propositional languages for representing knowledge and with techniques for manipulating these representations. In this respect, AI is analogous to applied mathematics; its representations and techniques can be applied in a variety of other subject areas. Typically, AI research is (or should be) more concerned with the general form and properties of representational languages and methods than it is with the content being described by these languages. Notable exceptions involve ``commonsense'' knowledge about the everyday world (no other specialty claims this subject area as its own), and world (no knowledge about the properties and uses of knowledge itself). In these areas AI is concerned with content as well as form. We also observe that the technology that seems to underlie peripheral sensory and motor activities (analogous to low-level animal or human vision and muscle control) seems to be quite different from the technology that seems to underlie cognitive reasoning and problem solving. Some definitions of AI would include peripheral as well as cognitive processes; here we argue against including the peripheral processes.
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I have an essay to write in my Latin AP class and I already have quite a lot of information on the subject, but I was wondering if anyone here could provide anymore information on it?
Basically, if you do not understand what I mean, Catullus uses Elegiac Poetry, poetry usually used for emotional, sometimes mournful, deep subjects, to grieve over the loss of his brother in 101 and then tell Rufius he will never get a woman because of his putrid armpits in 69. He can be emotional and comical with a style of poetry that is schizoid itself (this is one area where I'm lost, I believe she told us that it is split because of the hexameter and pentameter perhaps?)
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A Riverside County woman arrested after a crash that killed her 9-year-old daughter had lost her license because of a drunken driving conviction.
The North County Times says court records show Karen Honeycutt of Temecula was sentenced to a year's probation last year for driving on the suspended license. She had a similar licensing conviction in 2009.
Honeycutt's daughter, Chloe, died Wednesday after she was hurled from her mother's Jeep when it hit a tree and a light pole in Temecula. Police say Honeycutt was doing up to 100 mph. The girl's 8-year-old brother and 17-year-old stepbrother were injured.
Honeycutt was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise says she suffered a broken neck. She remains in a medical center jail ward.


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Mitt Romney would face long odds in another presidential bid
Mitt Romney will make his first major public speech next month since his loss to President Barack Obama, in a return to the political spotlight.
Another bid for the White House, however, seems out of the question and would be problematic based on the past decisions of former losing presidential candidates.
Romney will be a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Maryland. He joins a roster of Republicans including Marco Rubio, Sarah Palin, and Rand Paul.
The National Review first reported the story, which was confirmed by an American Conservative Union executive.
"The thousands gathered at CPAC this year are eager to hear from the former GOP presidential candidate at his first public appearance since the election," says Al Cardenas, the ACU's chairman. "We look forward to hearing Governor Romney's comments on the current state of affairs in America and the world, and his perspective on the future of the conservative movement."
What Romney's intentions are were unclear as of Wednesday. One source told The Washington Post that the former candidate wanted to thank "supporters and friends."
The event is at the Marriott Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Maryland, from March 14 to March 16. Romney rejoined Marriott's board after the November 2012 presidential election.
Politico reported in January that Romney told a private audience he had no intentions of fading away from the political scene.
Its sources said Romney told supporters he would campaign for Republicans in this year's gubernatorial elections, as well as the 2014 midterm elections and the 2016 presidential election. Romney also reportedly said he wanted to take part in a public dialogue about the economy and international issues.
The former candidate's wife, Ann Romney, has said that her husband isn't interested in another presidential run. Politico also said that Romney told the audience at the January event that he didn't intend to run for president again.
But Romney hasn't ruled out some kind of public role as a speaker supporting GOP causes.
Romney, 65, is seven months younger than Hillary Clinton.
But even if Romney had a change of heart and ran for president in 2016, the historical record of losing candidates winning the next political election is poor.
Romney lost a bitter race with President Obama in November, with Obama getting 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Grover Cleveland did come back from a presidential campaign loss to win four years later. Cleveland's win was in 1892; he was the last president to accomplish that feat in four years.
Richard Nixon also won the 1968 presidential race, after losing eight years earlier to John F. Kennedy. In fact, Nixon was the last defeated presidential candidate to make another major effort to win a presidential race.
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Al Gore, and John McCain didn't attempt to run for president again after their losing campaigns.
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In the first of a series of speeches on the erosion of Americans' faith in government, Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out a case Monday night in support of the Voting Rights Act.
"Anyone that says that racial discrimination is no longer a problem in American elections must not be paying attention," Mrs. Clinton said during the American Bar Association's annual gathering in San Francisco.
Any high-profile public appearance by the former secretary of State stokes buzz that she's likely to launch a presidential bid for 2016. But what's notable about Monday night's address is that her comments were plainly political in nature – and clearly targeted to the Democratic Party base.
When Clinton ran for the White House in 2008 as the presumed front-runner, she found herself in a sustained primary battle with then-Sen. Barack Obama, and it was Senator Obama, despite his newness to the national scene, who made a love connection with the liberal Democrats who tend to vote in primary contests.
Signaling that she's learning from past miscalculations, Clinton is engaging early in that courtship. Her remarks on the Voting Rights Act indicate that she is tending to the party's most loyal activists – in this case, to the minorities who feel disenfranchised by laws they see as designed to keep them away from the polls.
She is building a campaign without actively campaigning, recasting herself as a champion of those issues about which devoted Democratic partisans care most. And as NBC's Mark Murray said this morning on MSNBC, there is no matter that "fires up" party voters more than issue of voting rights.
During the ABA event, Clinton criticized the US Supreme Court for, earlier this year, striking down Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which designates which states must have federal approval of any changes in election laws.
"Unless the hole opened up by the Supreme Court is fixed ... citizens will be disenfranchised, victimized by the law, instead of served by it," Clinton said, and "that historical progress for a more perfect union will go backwards, instead of forward."
Clinton also targeted Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina for being particularly active in suppressing the vote. In North Carolina on Monday, the state's Republican governor signed a law requiring government-issued photo identification at the polls. The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have promised to mount a legal challenge.
As a result, the former first lady, who could face a 2016 primary field of contenders that includes Vice President Joe Biden, among others, suggested that Congress should move on proposals that would make it easier for citizens to get registered. She made a plea for "fair and uniform" identification standards, same-day registration, and improved security on electronic voting machines.
"We do – let's admit it – have a long history of shutting people out: African-Americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities," Clinton said, according to the Washington Post. "And throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection from the law."
Clinton, who left her post at the State Department in February, told her audience that "phantom" claims of widespread voter fraud prompted "a sweeping effort to construct new obstacles to voting" during the 2012 White House campaign. She said more than 80 bills have been introduced in 31 states limiting access to the polls; some require government-issued identification, for example.
Clinton did not mention the 2016 contest, but she doesn't have to. Reporters do that for her.
The Los Angeles Times' Mark Barabak called the ABA speech a continuation of Clinton's "long, slow flirtation with the 2016 presidential campaign."
There's much more to come from Clinton, who upon leaving her post as head of the State Department initially suggested that she wanted some good rest and relaxation. Her idea of a hiatus from official public life seems to include regular headline-making engagements, however.
In Philadelphia next month, Clinton will tackle "the issue of transparency" in US national security policies. And she suggested Monday night that she will make an appearance later this year focused on "American's global leadership and our moral standing around the world."
"Obviously her upcoming speeches, and the topics that she announced, show a consistent seriousness of purpose," says Tracy Sefl, a Washington-based Democratic consultant.
"Not that there's anything wrong with a steak fry or a state fair, after all, there's a role for those under the 2016 circus tent," she adds. "But for the tea leaf readers, it's the carefully chosen arc of issues she'll be addressing that says the most about what lies ahead."
Clinton launched her 2000 US Senate race and 2008 presidential run with listening tours, efforts to highlight her accessibility and show she had a human touch. This year, her planned speaking series signals more of a "listen up!" tour.


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Special reached a milestone on this date in 1985 when Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher in major league history to win 20 games in a season.
At 20 years, nine months and nine days, he was a month younger than Bob Feller when he won his 20th game in 1939.
Gooden won 17 games in 1984, then had his best season in 1985 when he went 24-4 with a 1.53 ERA and 268 strikeouts.
It was a wet, dreary day that Sunday afternoon at Shea against San Diego, but backed by Darryl Strawberry's homer and four RBI and three hits from Gary Carter, as the Mets prevailed, 9-3, to give Gooden his 14th straight victory and improve his record to 20-3.
Roger McDowell worked three innings for the save.
Gooden helped pitch the Mets to the World Series the following season, but his career derailed because of substance abuse.


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