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Course pages 2014–15
Mobile and Sensor Systems
Lecture Material
Lecture 1: Introduction to Mobile Systems
Lecture 2: Mobile Medium Access Control Protocols and Wireless
Lecture 3: Infrastructure, Ad-hoc and Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks
Lecture 4: Sensor Systems and MAC Layer Protocols
Lecture 5: Sensor Networking Routing Protocols
Lecture 6: Sensor Systems Reprogramming and Mobile Sensing
Lecture 7: Mobile Phone Sensing
Lecture 8: Practical Mobile Phone Programming. (Note: lecture slot swap with Advanced Algorithms. This last lecture will be taught on Wednesday 20th May at 11am instead of Tuesday 19th). Bring your Android phone and USB cable (if you have one) as well as your laptop.Set up Eclipse / Android Studio Configure these for Android development, e.g. by installing the ADT plugin for Eclipse. Download the demo project and ES libraries.
Recommended Additional Readings
Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21th Century. Scientific American. September 1991. Mark Weiser. Some Computer Issues in Ubiquitous Computing. Communications of the ACM. Vol. 36. Issue 7. July 1993.
M. Satyanarayanan. Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges. IEEE Personal Communications. Vol. 8 Issue 4. August 2001.
Chapter 6 of James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross Computer Networking. A Top Down Approach. 6th Edition. Pearson 2012.
Schiller, J. (2003). Mobile communications. Pearson (2nd ed.).
Agrawal, D. & Zheng, Q. (2006). Introduction to wireless and mobile systems. Thomson.
A. Vahdat and D. Becker, Epidemic routing for partially-connected ad hoc networks, 2000.
M. Musolesi and C. Mascolo. CAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 8(2). pp. 246-260. February 2009.
TinyOS tutorial: http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-1.x/doc/tutorial/ SMAC: Ye, W., Heidemann, J., and Estrin, D. 2004. Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 12, 3 (Jun. 2004), 493-506.
WISEMAC: El-Hoiydi, A. and Decotignie, J. 2004. WiseMAC: an ultra low power MAC protocol for the downlink of infrastructure wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the Ninth international Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (Iscc04) - Volume 02 (June 28 - July 01, 2004). ISCC. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 244-251.
X-MAC: M. Buettner, G. V. Yee, E. Anderson, and R. Han, X-MAC: a short preamble MAC protocol for duty-cycled wireless sensor networks, in Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems Boulder, Colorado, USA: ACM, 2006.
LEACH: Wendi Heinzelman, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Hari Balakrishnan, Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols for Wireless Microsensor Networks, Proc. Hawaaian Int'l Conf. on Systems Science, January 2000.
Intanagonwiwat, C., Govindan, R., and Estrin, D. 2000. Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual international Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Boston, Massachusetts, United States, August 06 - 11, 2000). MobiCom '00. ACM, New York, NY, 56-67.
Woo, A., Tong, T., and Culler, D. 2003. Taming the underlying challenges of reliable multihop routing in sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 1st international Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Los Angeles, California, USA, November 05 - 07, 2003). SenSys '03. ACM, New York, NY. Pages: 14-27. Karp, B. and Kung, H.T., GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2000), Boston, MA, August, 2000, pp. 243-254.
Levis P., Patel L., Shenker S., Culler D. 2004. Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the First USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2004). Pages 15-28.
B. Pasztor, L. Mottola, C. Mascolo, G. P. Picco, S. Ellwood and D. Macdonald. Selective Reprogramming of Mobile Sensor Networks through Social Community Detection. In Proceedings of 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN2010). Coimbra, Portugal. February 2010. Springer.
N.D. Lane, E. Miluzzo, H. Lu, D. Peebles, T. Choudhury, A. Campbell. A survey of mobile phone sensing. IEEE Computer Magazine. Vol. 48. No 9. September 2010.
E. Miluzzo, N.D. Lane, K. Fodor, R. Peterson, H. Lu, M. Musolesi, S.B. Eisenman, X. Zheng, A. Campbell. Sensing meets mobile social networks: the design, implementation and evaluation of the CenceMe application. Proceedings of SenSys'08.
K.K. Rachuri, M. Musolesi, C. Mascolo, P.J. Rentfrow, C. Longworth, A. Aucinas. EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research. Ubicomp'10. September 2010.


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Our goal is to capture public deliberation over the airwaves. By pinpointing community issues, we hope to start communication among all stakeholders. We will be broadcasting this forum to a different type of audience and community. Not only do we hope to include the University of Montana community, but also the greater Missoula community.
Historically, these two groups can seem very polarized, but still share common problems. Our radio forum will provide an atmosphere where all participants feel free to express their experiences and ideas. Through deliberation, we hope this radio forum may create a bridge between these two communities.
...Without Consent
This year the Footbridge Forum focused on the rash of sexual assaults that have come to light in the Missoula community. The discussion took place over three episodes aired on 89.9 KBGA and all members of the community were encouraged to participate.
The Footbridge Forum staff would like to thank the panelists and our listeners for making this a great series of shows. Please note, if you missed any of the episodes you can catch up by clicking the podcast link above or by clicking the "download on iTunes link in the lower right corner of this page. We will see you next spring.
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Northern California pot growers bomb a car and a bus, then take over Shasta Dam in a bid to free an imprisoned comrade. It sounds like the plot to a very cheesy Grade-B thriller, but it was actually the premise for a day-long terrorist attack drill conducted by 20 state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies Wednesday.
The drill was part of the US Bureau of Reclamation's Critical Infrastructure Crisis Response Exercise Program, which started in 2003. It identified six dams, including Shasta, the nation's second largest, as possible terrorist targets. Similar exercises took place at Utah's Flaming Gorge Dam in 2003, Washington's Grand Coulee Dam in 2005, and Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border in 2008. But none of those exercises identified pot growers as the putative terrorists.
According to bureau spokesperson Sheri Harral, the drill took 18 months of planning and cost the bureau $500,000. The other emergency and law enforcement agencies that participated paid their own expenses.
As of press time, Harral had not returned a Chronicle call asking why marijuana growers were selected as the terrorists. Northern California is home to thousands of pot growers, many of them doing it legally under the auspices of California's medical marijuana law. There are no known incidents of pot farmer terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure.
Dale Gieringer, head of California NORML and an observer of the state marijuana scene for decades, told the Chronicle he was unaware of any California pot grower terrorist cells—ever. "No, never," he said.
Nor was he impressed with the pot grower as terrorist scenario. "That was so stupid," he sighed. "I don't know what inspired it. I can see the need to do better pat downs for air travelers to make sure they're not holding joints in their underpants, but this? It sounds like something some yahoo red county sheriff would dream up."
Neither was the Marijuana Policy Project amused. "This is a classic example of law enforcement's utterly inaccurate stereotype of who is involved with marijuana," said the group's communications director, Mike Meno. "For decades, they have villainized users and people involved in the industry to such an extent that they now equate them with terrorists. It might be laughable," he said, "but it gives us real insight into the drug warrior mentality and what they think of marijuana people."
"People will be laughing about this for decades," Stroup continued. "You have almost half the people in California voting for marijuana, and on the other hand, this. It's hard to believe this is going on.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
17 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2014 at 6:29 PM
my british boyfriend (who had eaten the stuff before) thought that peanut butter actually had butter in it. he couldn't believe I would call it a healthy food option (without too much added sugar, of course).ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2014 at 9:07 AM
Well it's not that dissimilar to nutella minus chocolate, or rather hazelnut butter.ReplyDelete
Disclaimer: I've never had hazelnut butter without chocolate, and I'm sure there's some difference.
Also, I confess I eat peanut butter off a knife sometimes.Replies
Who doesn't? It tastes better that way...Delete
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2014 at 3:59 PM
I grew up watching american shows and imagined peanut butter in all kinds of ways. I finally tried some when I was 22 or so, and it was not at all as I imagined it. I thought it would be sweet and buttery...ReplyDeleteReplies
Hah, that's awesome! Neat to hear the other side of the story.Delete
The Dutch word is "pindakaas", literally "peanut cheese". :PReplyDeleteReplies
Also, try mixing Nutella and peanut butter in equal parts! :ODelete
"Peanut cheese" sounds horrifying. Nutella and peanut butter, however, sounds wonderful...Delete
Use that combination as a topping on vanilla ice cream. Heavenly! Very fattening, but heavenly.Delete
It's called peanut cheese, because the word "butter" in the Netherlands is a protected mark - only to be used for real butter. For this reason, peanut butter could not be translated into pindaboter.Delete
This is also the reason why artificial butter has to be labeled margarine here (although everyone calls it butter...).
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2016 at 6:15 PM
Like rosevaan I thought peanut butter would be sweet and creamy substance. I tasted it only recently and found out that it tastes exactly like peanut and nothing else. Only you can spread it on a toast.ReplyDeleteReplies
Haha, yep!Delete
...what's rosevaan?
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2016 at 10:24 AM
The guy who wrote before :)Delete
Peanut nutella. Like nutella but with peanut flavor. Death to hazel nuts.ReplyDelete
Nutella no in peanut form


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Unentertaining Video Promotes Sprint's Mobile Entertainment
Hoping to cash in on a bit of Numa Numa and William Hung viral fame, Sprint has launched a knowingly goofy video clip in which a bunch of guys get all jiggy with themselves in an attempt somehow...that's it...sell phones! That's right. Sprint has seeded the goofy video which points to gothookedup.com, a site that promotes Sprint's mobile entertainment services it feels are far more entertaining than lame online video clips. It's a nice sort of nudge-wink effort that does it's thing without being clandestine about it. Whether it goes anywhere, only Sprint will know.
Topic: Online, Viral


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Just got back today from a spur of the moment overnighter up at Table Rock State Park, SC and then some of the Foothills Trail. Great weekend but as I was hiking I noticed my shoes just weren't right. My feet were sliding and the bottom of my feet were burning. I ended up hurting my left knee from all the sliding around.
We long story short, I learned something. It doesn't matter how nice your boots are . . they will all suck if you forget you insoles. YIKES!!
To large areas of skin right off and I didn't even realize the reason until I was unpacking at home and came upon my insoles on the shelf DOH!


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I created a new cookie cutter and made it into a challenge. You know me. I really like to do that. It's such a fun way to see the creativity of so many different cookie decorators and it's a great way to have fun with our cookie community. I've had some challenges that the design could be many various things and some that were difficult to figure out. This one was pretty obvious. The funny thing is that I figured we would have 12 different versions of owls. But there actually were some really cool owl designs and some that DID think out of the box and insist they could make something different than an owl. The designs are absolutely incredible and had me giggling in delight as I gathered the photos for the collage.
Here is the cutter I asked them to use to design their cookie:
Here is the cutter I asked them to use to design their cookie:
So are you ready to see all the entries? I know you've waited so very patiently. Here you go:
Now are you ready to meet all the talented cookie decorators?
You can download the cookie tags by clicking here.
1) Michelle of Wonderland Cake and Company Co
2) Heather of Twins Plus One Goodies
3) Leah of Simply Eden Baked Goods
4) Amy of One Preppy Cookie
5) Maria of Homemade Cupcakes, Cookies & More
6) Elaine of Elaine's Sweet Life
7) Megan of Sweet Baketique
8) Beck at Strawberry Giggles Edible Gifts
9) Traci of Cookie Queen Kitschn:
10) Channing of TheCookieMaster
11) Cristin of Cristin'sCookies
Owl Cookie Cutter Available HERE
Download Tutorial Cards HERE
Download Free Printable Cookie Bag Topper HERE
Now do you want to know why I chose my owl design?
Download Tutorial Cards HERE
Download Free Printable Cookie Bag Topper HERE
Now do you want to know why I chose my owl design?
Ok, ready for a short tutorial? I started with my owl on a branch cookie cutter. Yes, you can get one too. The Ollie the Owl cookie cutter is available HERE
Then I baked my owl cookies
and then wa-la I had my owl cookie. I know, I skipped a whole bunch of steps. Sorry about that. I must have gotten bored with taking photos and I didn't realize it! I used little pink heart candies for the owl tummy and after the white icing dried completely, I used a blue edible pen to draw the stitching on her tummy and black stitching on her wings. I used sky blue for most of her body and regal purple for her wings.
and then I made her some friends so she wouldn't be lonely when Abigail wasn't here.
You can download the cookie tags by clicking here.
Thank you to all the amazingly fun cookie decorators that played along in our cookie challenge and to Abigail for being my muse!
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A small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday, gripped by fear after the killing of 22 people in a ferocious weekend gunbattle between drug cartel members and security forces.
A 72-year-old woman living near Villa Union's city hall recounted how she huddled with two of her grandchildren inside an armoire during the shooting.
The street in front of her home was littered with shell casings, and her walls and door were pocked with bullet holes.
"I'm still trembling," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear for her safety. "We've never seen anything like this. It was as if they just wanted to sow terror."
Around midday Saturday, armed men in a convoy of dozens of vehicles arrived in Villa Union and began shooting up city hall. Many of the vehicles were emblazoned with the cartel's initials - CDN, for Cartel del Noreste, or Northeast Cartel - as were the attackers' bulletproof vests.
Coahuila Gov. Miguel Riquelme said state security forces arrived within an hour and surrounded the town, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Sixteen gunmen were killed, along with four state police officers and two civilians, he said.
On Monday morning, the town of about 6,000 people was strewn with burned-out vehicles, and the city hall's facade was so riddled with bullet holes it looked like a sieve.
Workers swept up glass and rubble out front and began to plaster over the holes, while others collected important documents. Broken glass covered the floor, a crucifix had fallen from a wall, furniture was destroyed, and portraits of local politicians were pierced by bullets.
Outside lay a burned SUV, a shot-up ambulance and a yellow school bus with CDN spray-painted on the side.
Shops nearby cleaned up rather than open for business. Despite the presence of soldiers and federal police patrolling the quiet streets, no one sent their children to school, and residents did not want to give their names for fear the gunmen could return.
"They wanted to send a message" to the state government, Riquelme told the Mexican network Radio Formula.
He said the Northeast Cartel, based in nearby Tamaulipas state, has made 15 attempts to establish itself in Coahuila since he became governor two years ago.
"We have not permitted the entrance of these criminals in our entity," he said. "They thought they were going to enter, strike and exit, something that didn't happen."
The Northeast Cartel is an offshoot of the Zetas, a cartel with roots in elite military units. The Zetas long dominated Nuevo Laredo and Tamaulipas state and were known for military-style operations and grotesque violence intended to intimidate their enemies.
Villa Union is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the town of Allende, the site of a 2011 massacre involving the Zetas in which officials say 70 died.
Villa Union residents wondered why their town was targeted with such fury. A woman who declined to give her name likened the attack to being in a war zone and said, "They caught us off guard."
The governor said that all hostages taken Saturday, including five minors, had been rescued. Cartel members had taken some locals with them as guides as they tried to make their escape along back roads.
Of the 25 vehicles seized, four carried .50-caliber machine guns. Dozens of homes were damaged.
On Monday afternoon, the family of a civil defense worker who was one of the two civilians killed in the shooting held a wake for the father of four children. Still terrified, all declined to speak or be identified. His widow said only, "He didn't do anything bad."
Mexico's homicide rate has increased to historically high levels this year. After a string of massacres, critics have charged that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's government does not have a coherent security strategy.
López Obrador met on Monday with relatives of nine women and children, all dual U.S.-Mexican citizens, killed by gunmen from the Juarez cartel in the border state of Sonora on Nov. 4. Authorities said they have taken three suspects into custody in connection with the ambush.
The relatives expressed satisfaction with the meeting but said they want further investigation
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KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Johnson County man who set up a nude photo shoot with a 14-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today
Kristopher Hausback, 30, Spring Hill, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. In his plea, Hausback admitted he advertized on Model Mayhem, where aspiring models meet photographers. He mostly solicited friends and relatives to pose as models.
On Aug. 8, 2011, Leawood police officers were called to the Aloft hotel to take a report of a theft. Hausback told them his camera had been stolen. Investigation revealed Hausback had taken nude photographs of a 14-year-old girl who came to the hotel for a "photo shoot." She had sent her brother a text telling him the name of the hotel and room number. Her stepfather went to the hotel and confronted Hausback. The two scuffled and the stepfather took the camera.
An examination of Hausback's camera and computer revealed photos he took of another girl who was 16, as well as photos he possessed of minor girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Sentencing is set for Dec. 10. Both parties have agreed to recommend a sentence of not less than 42 months and not more than 96 months in federal prison.
Grissom commended the Leawood Police Department and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Martin for their work on the case.


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The Million Man March (pictured throughout), one of the most moving and emotional moments ever in African-American history, took place on the grounds of the National Mall on this day in 1995. The symbolic importance and cultural impact of the huge gathering signified a shift in the attention on issues that plagued urban environs and minorities. The National African American Leadership Summit and the Nation of Islam worked in tandem alongside local chapters of the NAACP to make the March a reality.
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At the time, African-American leaders were moved to act, when in 1994, the Republican Party gained control of Congress during President Bill Clinton's first term in office. Feeling in some way that policy matters focused on the concerns of Blacks were lacking, the leaders of the time sought to be heard and become part of the national agenda. Much like today, unemployment and poverty disproportionately affected Blacks in comparison to poor Whites, sparking Rev. Jesse Jackson to address several issues in front of the House of Representatives.
The rate of arrests of Black men, drug use among African Americans, environmental hazards, and other societal ills were all on the table and the organizers of the March boldly declared war against the negative downturn. In addition, racial tensions in the country were high, with the highly publicized O.J. Simpson not-guilty verdict coming just two weeks before.
Consequently, Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, the national director of the March, used his background as a champion for African-American rights to connect groups with one another for the March. The Million Man March was a call for men of their respective communities to gather together and shift the tide for African Americans of either gender.
Men and leaders of all faiths and political ideologies saw the importance of banding together for the March. Further, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called October 16 "a day of atonement."
The March began at 6 a.m., with busloads of attendees (pictured above) coming from all over the country and even around the world. Community leaders, pastors, elected officials, and other public figures made up a long list of speakers who spoke powerful words to the reported 1.5-million persons who were there.
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Maya Angelou, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King III were among the more notable speakers of the day. Min. Farrakhan delivered the blistering closing speech, challenging the men in the crowd to embrace and honor one another. In one particularly moving moment, men from all walks of life who didn't know one another were tearfully hugging, vowing to support the other.
Seventeen years later, the aims of the March are still relevant, especially since the jobless rate and health disparities for Black people are still hot issues. No matter which side of the aisle a person stood on, and regardless of one's spiritual calling, the Million Man March left a necessary mark in the minds of many, and hopefully, another showing of solidarity of that sort will occur in the near future.
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Sikh temple gunman was white supremacist, had ties to North Carolina
Published 12:00 am Monday, August 6, 2012
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before being shot to death by police was identified Monday as a 40-year-old Army veteran and former leader of a white supremacist heavy metal band.
Wade Michael Page strode into the temple carrying a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition and opened fire without saying a word, authorities said.
When the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee ended, six victims ranging in age from 39 to 84 years old lay dead. Three others were critically wounded.
Page, who joined the Army in 1992 and was discharged in 1998, was described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "frustrated neo-Nazi" who was active in the obscure underworld of white supremacist music.
Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the nonprofit civil rights organization in Montgomery, Ala., said Page had been on the white-power music scene for more than a decade, playing in bands known as Definite Hate and End Apathy.
"The name of the band seems to reflect what he went out and actually did," said Potok. The music often includes lyrics that discuss genocide against Jews and other minorities.
In a 2010 interview, Page told a white supremacist website that he became active in white-power music in 2000, when he left his native Colorado and started the band End Apathy in 2005.
He told the website his "inspiration was based on frustration that we have the potential to accomplish so much more as individuals and a society in whole," according to the law center. He did not mention violence.
End Apathy's MySpace page said the group was based in Nashville, N.C.
Joseph Rackley of Nashville, N.C., said Monday that Page lived with his son for about six months last year in a house on Rackley's property. Wade was bald and had tattoos all over his arms, Rackley said, but he doesn't remember what they depicted. He said he wasn't aware of any ties Page had to white supremacists.
"I'm not a nosy kind of guy," Rackley said. "When he stayed with my son, I don't even know if Wade played music. But my son plays alternative music, and periodically I'd have to call them because I could hear more than I wanted to hear."
Page joined the military in Milwaukee in 1992 and was a repairman for the Hawk missile system before switching jobs to become one of the Army's psychological operations specialists assigned to a battalion at Fort Bragg, N.C.
As a psyops specialist, Page would have trained to host public meetings between locals and American forces, use leaflet campaigns in a conflict zone or use loudspeakers to communicate with enemy soldiers.
He never deployed overseas while serving in that role, Pentagon spokesman George Wright said.
Page was demoted in June 1998 for getting drunk while on duty and going AWOL, two defense officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information about the gunman.
Page also received extra duty and was fined. The defense officials said they had no other details about the incident, such as how long Page was gone or whether he turned himself in.
Online records show Page had a brief criminal history in other states, including pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief after a 1994 arrest in El Paso. He received six months' probation. Page also pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Colorado in 1999 but never completed a sentence that included alcohol treatment, records show.
Suburban Milwaukee police had no contact with Page before Sunday's shooting, and his record gave no indication he was capable of such violence, authorities said.
The FBI was leading the investigation because the shooting was considered domestic terrorism, or an attack that originated inside the U.S. The agency said it had no reason to believe anyone other than Page was involved.
Page began shooting as several dozen people prepared for Sunday services.
Satpal Kaleka, wife of the temple's president, Satwant Singh Kaleka, was in the front room and saw the gunman enter the temple, according to Harpreet Singh, their nephew.
"He did not speak. He just began shooting," said Singh, relaying a description of the attack from Satpal Kaleka.
Kaleka said the 6-foot bald white man — who worshippers said they had never seen before — seemed like he knew where he was going.
"We never thought this could happen to our community," said Devendar Nagra of Mount Pleasant, whose sister escaped injury by hiding as the gunman fired in the temple's kitchen. "We never did anything wrong to anyone."
Federal officials said the gun used in the attack had been legally purchased.
Page was issued five pistol-purchase permits in 2008 by the Cumberland County Sheriff's office in North Carolina, paying a $5 fee for each. The sheriff's office declined to release his application form, which requires another person to affirm the applicant is of "good moral character." The forms also typically ask about military experience of applicants, who must pass a criminal background check.
Page did not have the additional permit needed to legally carry a concealed weapon.
On Sunday, the first officer to respond was shot eight to nine times as the officer tended to a victim outside. A second officer then exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who was fatally shot.
The wounded officer was in critical condition Monday, along with two other people who were wounded.
Balginder Khattra of Oak Creek, said Monday that his 84-year-old father, Suveg Singh Khattra, was among the dead. Khattra says his father didn't speak English but loved living in America.
Sikhism is a monotheistic faith founded more than 500 years ago in South Asia. It has roughly 27 million followers worldwide. Observant Sikhs do not cut their hair. Male followers often cover their heads with turbans — which are considered sacred — and refrain from shaving their beards. There are roughly 500,000 Sikhs in the U.S., according to estimates. The majority worldwide live in India.
The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin started in 1997 with about 25 families who gathered in community halls in Milwaukee. Construction on the current temple in Oak Creek began in 2006, according to the temple's website.
The New York-based Sikh Coalition has reported more than 700 hate crimes in the U.S. since 9/11 and has fielded complaints in the thousands from Sikhs about workplace discrimination and racial profiling. With their turbans and long beards, Sikhs are often mistaken for Muslims or Arabs, and have inadvertently become targets of anti-Muslim bias in the United States.
The shooting also came two weeks after a gunman killed 12 people at movie theater in Colorado.


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The Third Sunday after Trinity
The Collect
O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may by thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle
1 St. Peter 5.5-11
All of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The Gospel
St. Luke 15.1-10
Then drew near unto him all the Publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
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It's kind of surprising that an innovation like a no-blindspot driver-side mirror wasn't created by the R&D team at a major automotive manufacturer, but instead by a mathematics professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia. That doesn't make it any less awesome, however.
Using a specially-developed mathematical algorithm, Dr. R. Andrew Hicks, a professor at Drexel's College of Arts and Sciences, created the improved side view mirror with a 45 degree field of view, compared to just 15 or 17 degrees on a traditional side mirror. Not only does it completely eliminated a vehicle's blind spot, but it does so without grossly distorting everything, or making objects appear tiny and distant, like a wide angle mirror would.
The secret to the new mirror's magic is its carefully engineered surface. It might look smooth, but it's actually made up of tens of thousands of tiny facets that are invisible to the human eye, but help properly bounce the light towards the driver so they see a wide, undistorted view of what's next to their vehicle. Unfortunately government regulations still require new vehicles to only come with flat side mirrors, but since the new mirror's design has been successfully patented, when it finally goes into production it should be available as an aftermarket add-on that will actually improve the safety of your vehicle.


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Modern software platforms enable the analysis of shotgun proteomics data in an automated fashion resulting in high quality identification and quantification results. Additional understanding of the underlying data can be gained with the help of advanced visualization tools that allow for easy navigation through large LC-MS/MS datasets potentially consisting of terabytes of raw data. The updated MaxQuant version has a map navigation component that steers the users through mass and retention time-dependent mass spectrometric signals. It can be used to monitor a peptide feature used in label-free quantification over many LC-MS runs and visualize it with advanced 3D graphic models. An expert annotation system aids the interpretation of the MS/MS spectra used for the identification of these peptide features.
To run MaxQuant with its Viewer module, you will need .NET framework 4.5. If you use Windows you should have Vista or newer.
You can find raw files and processed data to test the Viewer (v. 220.127.116.11) here.
Important note: If you load the mqpar.xml file, make sure all file paths are correct! If needed, update them using the "Change folder" option.
For additional training, consider attending the annual MaxQuant Summer School. Also watching some MaxQuant videos provides more insight.
Tyanova, S., Temu, T., Carlson, A., Sinitcyn, P., Mann, M. and Cox, J., Visualization of LC-MS/MS proteomics data in MaxQuant, Proteomics, 2015, 15, pp 1453–1456


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Man is a tool-using animal, Thomas Carlyle† (1795 – 1881)
The Scottish philosopher wasn't talking about beekeepers, but he might as well have been. The quotation goes on something like "Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all". Which pretty neatly sums up the beekeeper who has lost his hive tool in the long grass.
Conducting a full inspection without a hive tool is a a thankless task. You can't crack the crownboard off (unless it's a sheet of heavy-duty plastic), propolis acquires the adhesive properties of SuperGlue and your fingers become clumsy, fat, bee-squashing sausages as you try and prise the frames apart.
A personal choice
There's a huge choice of hive tools available. At the recent Welsh BKA Convention I saw about a dozen different designs on the Abelo stand alone, several not in their catalogue or on the website. Thorne's list about 17 different hive tools. We're spoilt for choice. Over the last few years I've bought, borrowed or otherwise acquired about eight different styles … some of those that haven't been lost, given away or discarded in disgust are pictured here.
From left to right …
- Thorne's traditional hive tool. Perfectly adequate. Nicely weighted and pretty good quality stainless steel.
- Cheap knock-off variant of Thorne's Claw Hive Tool. £2 each from a long-forgotten stand at a beekeeping convention. Light and relatively short (8″). My favourite by a long way. I bought half a dozen of them and wish I'd bought more.
- An American hive tool originally sold by Modern Beekeeping but now available from Thorne's who call it their Frontier Hive Tool. Great quality, excellent scraper blade but too heavy and long for me.
- El cheapo hive tool bought from eBay. Strong, long, heavy and coarse. Horrible in my view. This one lurks in the bottom of my bee bag and is only brought out in a dire emergency.
Care and maintenance of hive tools
There's really only two things that you need to do with hive tools in terms of care and maintenance. You need to keep them clean and try and avoid losing them.
I specifically said 'try and avoid'. Losing hive tools is one of the inevitabilities of beekeeping. Like getting stung, running out of supers, not having enough frames, missing queen cells and 'rediscovering' a lost hive tool with the lawnmower. I lost three in one apiary a few years ago, finding all of them in the winter as the herbage died back. You can reduce losses by painting them bright colours. Blue works well. I've got a nice quality bright blue hive tool given away by Mann Lake at the BBKA Spring Convention when they first started up in the UK … somewhere.
Hive tools need to be kept clean. I keep a bucket containing a strong washing soda solution in each apiary. Between inspections the hive tools are immersed in the bucket. This guarantees three things; there will be a hive tool available for your inspections, the hive tool will be clean and the paint will have probably peeled off. The Frontier-type American hive tool (second from right, above) was originally bright yellow. This bucket is also a great place to keep a small serrated utility knife which is useful for all sorts of tasks during the season.
I know some people who keep a separate hive tool for every hive in an apiary as part of their 'good hive hygiene' practice. This seems like overkill to me and ignores the level of bees drifting between colonies. It's easy enough to dip the tool in the washing soda between inspections if needed … and saves investing in loads of hive tools 😉
† Thomas Carlyle had a famously unhappy marriage to Jane Welsh. The novelist Samuel Butler said "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four."


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|Other ways to
to say hertz
|cycles per second
The hertz (symbol: Hz, definition: 1/s) is a unit derived from time which measures frequency in the International System of Units (SI). Frequency is how often something happens. A frequency of 1 hertz means that something happens once a second. While hertz or Hz are the standard ways to express this unit, other expressions are sometimes used, as shown in the table.
The note Middle C (the C in the middle of the piano) is 261.65 (262) Hz. This means there are 262 vibrations every second, which is heard as the note Middle C, when that piano key is played.
Humans are able to hear sounds between 20 and 20 000 Hz.[1] Owls are able to hear sounds between 200 and 12000 Hz.[2]
The basic unit is 1/second. The unit is named after a German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
Multiple units Edit
1000 hertz is 1 kilohertz. 1000 kilohertz is 1 megahertz, 1000 megahertz is 1 gigahertz: (see table)
|Equal to:
|Kilohertz (kHz)
|1000 Hz
|Megahertz (MHz)
|1000 kHz
|Gigahertz (GHz)
|1000 MHz
|Terahertz (THz)
|1000 GHz
|Petahertz (PHz)
|1000 THz
|Exahertz (EHz)
|1000 PHz
|Zettahertz (ZHz)
|1000 EHz
|Yottahertz (YHz)
|1000 ZHz
Examples Edit
- The frequency of the Earth's spinning (once per ~24 hours) is about 12 microhertz (much smaller than 1 Hz).
- The hertz is sometimes used to measure the power of a processor in computing and electronics.
- Amateur radio in the United States Of America is at different frequencies between 1.8 and 1300 MHz[3]
- Air traffic control uses frequencies between 3 and 25 MHz as well as frequencies between 108 and 136 MHz[4]
- Musical note middle G (G4) has a frequency of 392 Hz.
Sources Edit
- ↑ "Sensitivity of Human Ear". Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ↑ "Frequency Hearing Ranges in Dogs and Other Species". Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ↑ "Frequency Allocations". Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ↑ "Aviation Radio Bands and Frequencies". Smeter. Archived from the original on 12 February 2004. Retrieved 9 February 2016.


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When I found myself in one of the most isolated and mysterious countries on the planet naturally the first thing I noticed was the profound assortment of vehicles in the airport parking lot. Behind the wall of mines and propaganda in North Korea are still people, and many people still like cars.
There was a white United Nations-outfitted G-Wagon with a manual transmission and rubberized interior; an unidentifiable prehistoric-looking squad of military vehicles I had never seen before (or even read about) and to top it off a row of three blacked-out Porsche Cayennes sat in the corner of the small lot.
I was quickly informed that I was not to take any pictures anywhere near the airport.
A few years ago I worked for a luxury tour operator that focuses exclusively on Asia. They make otherwise impossible things happen for very wealthy customers—my old boss once "persuaded" an official from the Burmese Junta to issue landing permits to a client's private aircraft. The company also occasionally organizes private tours to North Korea for clients who want a more intimate experience than standard group tours.
This was my former boss's third time in the Hermit Kingdom and my first. He was there to foster some business relationships and build itineraries for future clients; I was there to see with my own eyes what this highly controversial nation is all about and more specifically check out what kind of cars were on the roads of this nation that frightens the Western world.
Prior to this trip I was under the impression that, in addition to eating grass, everyone rode bicycles and got around via Ox-drawn carts, but North Korea's cars were singing to the inner car geek in me and I had only touched down 20 minutes ago. The craziest part about it? The ruling party isn't just bringing in any old cars, they have some taste.
Luxury sedans are a fairly common sight in Pyongyang. It's an ideal place for a carspotter because there's such variety. What I learned from my trip to North Korea is that it's a dream destination for a car guy from the West who has a sense of adventure. Yes, there are newer exotics in Monaco, but the cars you see in North Korea aren't something you'll see on Jalopnik.
Car and Driver ran this piece four years ago. It's very much dated in 2014.
The capital city is changing. Pyongyang's wide open roads devoid of any cars is giving way to the level of traffic that you might find in any "middle American" city, which is to say there's just enough traffic to be noticeable.
It was only recently that traffic lights were installed at major intersections, prior to this the nearly non-existent traffic was controlled by a legion of robotic-yet-attractive "traffic ladies" (remember this viral video?), but their presence is dwindling in 2014 thanks to a recent wave of modernization sweeping the city.
The average breakdown of exactly what's on the road in Pyongyang goes something like this: 30% of the vehicles are olive drab colored "jeeps"; 20% are new (2008 or newer) luxury sedans and trucks like the Hummer H2 and the Audi A5; 30% are older Russian, Swedish, and German sedans from the '50s through the '80s; and the remaining 20% are econoboxes with funny nameplates manufactured domestically in North Korea and imported China
As my tour guide, appropriately named Kim, explained, no one buys a car in North Korea. They're given to people by the party, so that explains the profusion of the ubiquitous UAZ-469, a Russian 4x4 produced by Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod that has been used by classless nations around Asia since the 1970s. The city is peppered with these trucks, almost toy-like in appearance.
Despite its olive drab cladding, it's the de facto grocery getter for citizens of the Hermit Kingdom, although a trip to the grocery store involves trading coupons issued from the party for goods that are locally produced by work units specializing in a specific food or product.
You'll find the robust UAZ taking youngsters to the fun park, lined up outside the library, and even in school parking lots.
The UAZ might be the most common truck in Pyongyang — a sort of Ford F-150 for the serially repressed — but the presence of military vehicles doesn't stop there. North Korea's interior is very mountainous and can be dangerous to drive through, as the roads are in horrible condition and there are virtually no refueling stops.
Kim explained that since fuel is hard to come by, the supreme leader used his profound knowledge of combustion engines to develop proprietary technology that enables these large utility trucks to run on fuel produced from what looks like a heating stove mounted to the bed of the truck. The stove is constantly burning wood and coal producing carbon monoxide and hydrogen which is fed to the diesel engine.
These trucks seem to serve a few purposes. For one, they ferry raw materials from both ports and the capital city to the dozens of rapidly developing satellite cities. In addition, they transport people back and forth through the mountainous interior acting as makeshift busses.
Every forty minutes or so a strong methane and ash smell would fill our van while driving on the empty highways, and after being enlightened by Kim's insight on the wood-burning trucks I realized that this strange smell was the loitering cloud of spent biomass that these trucks had left behind.
In some ways it's a good thing there aren't a great deal of these on the road. The upside of a nation with a controlled number of automotive units is less pollution overall, but that's a small price to pay for the smell.
It wouldn't be North Korea without a little absurdity, and in the automotive world that comes in the form of a car company called Pyeonghwa motors. This manufacturer is a joint venture between the South Korea and the North. They're produced in the DPRK but oddly the amount of Chinese BYD (Build Your Dream) econo-cars seem to greatly outnumber the domestic copycat Pyeonghwa designs. During my weeklong stay I only spotted 3 of these mysterious cars.
It seems like imports are strongly favored over domestically produced vehicles.
A good amount of the cars on the road look like they landed in the 1970s and have been driven every day since. A common sight is the Russian workhorse the Volga. The boat-like sedan has just about as much character as you would expect from a "luxury" vehicle produced in Soviet era Russia.
It's typically used as a taxi in former Bloc nations, but in the DPRK it does enjoy somewhat of a luxury status. Oddly enough, there are plenty of taxis roaming the streets of Pyongyang, though they're rarely occupied with paying passengers. The yellow and green taxis could be just a show for foreign visitors as very few citizens have the means to pay for such services or travel freely.
While a few things CNN spins about the DPRK are true, the idea that it's a land with zero car culture is certainly not.
The Juche (self reliance) philosophy (which is an Orwellian euphemism for "lack of money:) means that the hermit nation manages to maximize the utility provided by their fleet of vehicles by keeping cars alive and on the road rather than in the scrapyard.
Though it seems strange, sometimes totalitarian regimes have policies that offer car guys some spillover benefits. While wrenching on cars is a necessity for most, as it is with Cubans, there's also an obvious pride people take in having and maintaining a vehicle, no matter what that vehicle is.
There are some more photos from my journey below. Notice anything interesting?
Thaddeus Stapleton currently works in advertising having formerly worked for a tourism company that brought people to North Korea. He's writing under a nom de plume because he hopes to visit the country again. Photos by Radcliffe Marxwell, illustration by Jim Cooke.


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Historical Travelogues by WomenLugging a Piano to Khartoum
Traveling was a male domain well into the nineteenth century, and the few exceptions confirm the rule. One such exception was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), who accompanied her husband when he was dispatched as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Her bid to foster cultural understanding, the posthumously published "Letters from Constantinople" became a classic among travel literature.
"So you see, she wrote on May 19, 1718, from Constantinople, "these people are not as uncouth as we portray them" and even conjectured "that they have a more proper notion of life." The book owes its success not least of all to the author's access to the harem. Exclusion had stirred up the fantasies of male travelers for centuries, giving rise to many peculiar beliefs.
British women as pioneer Orient travelers
It was predominantly British women who made a name for themselves as writers of travelogues. The late nineteenth century was the heyday of adventurous travelogues. Isabel Burton (1831-1896), Isabelle Bird (1831-1904), Anne Blunt (1867-1917), and Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) traveled through Arab countries, and Freya Stark (1893-1993), a British woman born in Paris and brought up in Italy, frequently visited the Middle East between 1928 and 1983 and made a name for herself as a photographer.
The reasons and motives for traveling were quite varied. Snobbish and highbrow representatives of the establishment stood alongside eccentric adventurers. Dedicated wives accompanied their husbands who were traveling as archaeologists, diplomats, or adventurers. Women traveling on their own were fleeing the restrictive social conventions of middle-class Europe.
Apart from the British women, Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn (1805-1880) from Germany, the most successful novelist of her age, and Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) from Vienna both made trips to the Orient. The short life of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), born in Geneva as the daughter of aristocratic Russian emigrants, appears to be so incredible that her biography has been repeatedly challenged.
She traveled through the Algerian Sahara dressed as a man, wrote poems in Arabic, and drowned in the desert in a flash flood at the age of twenty-seven. Hardly less flamboyant and eccentric was Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), whose house in Lebanon attracted travelers to the Orient such as Alphonse de Lamartine and Alexander Kinglake.
The characters of the travelers varied as much as their motives. Their attitudes ranged from open curiosity and sympathy on the one hand to the shameless conceit of superiority and racism on the other. In this respect the traveling ladies were in no way inferior to their male colleagues.
Lugging a piano to Khartoum
Many an expedition became a major feat in logistics. In 1872 Lydie Paschkoff from Russia traveled to Palmyra with a caravan of thirty-three mules, thirty-five camels, twelve donkeys, and twelve horses. Alexine Tinne (1835-1869), heiress of a Dutch sugar baron, embarked on a no less luxuriously outfitted Nile expedition with her mother in 1862.
She traveled with so many servants that her male colleagues, aggrieved in their sense of adventure, sneered and bemoaned that the exploration of Africa, which once demanded so many privations, had been debased to a weekend excursion.
Katharine Petherick, who accompanied her husband John to Sudan in 1861, even took her piano on the arduous and dangerous route through Nubia. At least it was a custom-made piano that could be dismantled into two pieces.
London-Baghdad in eight days
During the nineteenth century some Middle East destinations became so popular that many travelers were annoyed. Emily Beaufort, traveling through Egypt in 1858, mocked the "in vogue, overcrowded Nile." A few years later the Africa traveler Samuel Baker scoffed at Alexine Tinne's expedition, remarking that the tour was becoming so popular that it seemed advisable "to open an inn at the Equator, where travelers could drop in for a beer."
The emerging mass tourism was the drawback to the increasing comfort and security of travel. Mules, donkeys, and camels were replaced by the railroad. With the words "Safety, Rapidity, Economy," the Simplon Orient Express & Taurus Express advertised in 1931 that the route London-Baghdad could be mastered in the record time of eight days in the exclusive sleeping car.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) traveled the route several times with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The writer could not warm up to the much faster form of travel – flying – already available then, with connections between England and Cairo or Baghdad. For her this kind of traveling was too expensive and too boring.
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(NAPS)—If the thought of saving time, trouble and money on your company's phone service rings the bell for you, technology may bring you good news.
You can act, sound and function more like a future Fortune 500 business using the equipment you have—better.
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For one thing, you can wed your phone system to software that helps you care for customers and empower your sales team. It can also provide sophisticated auto attendant on-hold music or messaging, record a call on demand and send you your voice mails transcribed in an e-mail.
How It Works
That's because cloud computing can eliminate hardware and its headaches. The cloud is simply computers connected though the Internet or an intranet with the ability to reach out and retrieve data processed elsewhere by supercomputers. It's now possible to add business voice service to the cloud—especially when it's fine-tuned for quality and ease of use. It's even possible to create different greetings according to the time of day and the day of week.
It works through "VoIP," which stands for "Voice over Internet Protocol." In other words, your phone system works over the Internet rather than over traditional phone lines.
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Other features include:
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• You pick your phones, then plug and play with confidence.
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She began her career as a chorus girl on Broadway, where she met and married DeWolf Hopper, a stage matinee idol who was famous for reciting Casey at the Bat. She moved on to silent films and became a featured player by 1916 in The Battle of Hearts. She starred in 120 films over the ensuing 23 years, but is best remembered for her Hollywood gossip, peddled initially through her radio show, then in a gossip column, then later in documentaries in the 1940s entitled Hedda Hopper's Hollywood. She had a notorious feud with rival Louella Parsons, and had a huge collection of hats.Died: 2/1/1966
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Clear Channel Rewrites Rules of Radio Broadcasting
Against a backdrop of red, white and blue curtains, emblazoned with the words of the constitution of the United States, the heads of some of the world's biggest radio companies gathered for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual meeting last week in Philadelphia, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
The exhibition floor was crowded with curious delegates playing with new gadgets, surrounded by cool blue lights. One booth gave away free radios to promote Family Net, an internet service that filters out pornography, while the United States Air Force had a sports utility vehicle on display, loaded with state-of-the-art flat television screens, DVD players and 12 booming speakers, to convince broadcasters to play recruitment advertisements for the military.
What was probably most unusual on the exhibition floor was the absence of the biggest radio company in the country: Clear Channel. Although the company is not a household name, most radio listeners in the nation have heard the company's music.
Clear Channel is a product of the deregulation of radio in the United States through the Telecommunication Act of 1996, which overturned the rule limiting to forty the number of radio stations around the country that a single company could own.
Today Clear Channel owns over 1,200 stations, or roughly one in every ten in the country, over 776,000 outdoor advertising displays, such as billboards and street benches, as well as 200 major concert halls across the nation. The company represents the biggest and most profitable bands and stars in the business, ranging from N'Sync, Tina Turner and Pearl Jam to sports legends like Michael Jordan and Andre Agassi.
But by no means did the company boycott the convention. John Hogan, the president of Clear Channel radio and his rival Joel Hollander, president of Infinity, were available to meet attendees who had paid up to $895 to attend the gathering, at a special "super session."
Hogan told his audience that the radio multinational was there to provide consumers with what they wanted. "It is really the audience that is the litmus test. I have certain opinions and political beliefs. It shouldn't be up to me, it is up to the community," he said.
Not every member of the audience at the super session agreed with Clear Channel's philosophy. Patrick Clawson, a local reporter, stood up to challenge Hogan.
"Since Clear Channel came into our community and consolidated the stations there, and began to take up a wide share of revenue from that market, Clear Channel has eliminated entirely the local news department from those stations. Clear Channel now broadcasts news that originates from Baltimore over 100 miles away, and that centralized news agency has never had a reporter in our community," he said.
"We had a industrial plant accident in our area not long ago, where the plant manager called the stations at about 3 o'clock in the morning because they need to get the word out to tell the community about the accident and also to advise the employees not to come into work, but he was greeted with an employee [of Clear Channel] who said: 'Sorry, all our programs are delivered by satellite, and we can't anything on air until six in the morning.' With the elimination of local programming, how does this method of operation serve the public interest?" added Clawson.
Hogan declined to reply to the question but media activists, who attended the convention were eager to explain: "The problem with Clear Channel having so much market power is that they start to be able to control the outcomes of the competition that they are in," says Pete Tridish, founder of the Philadelphia-based Prometheus Radio Project, which supports community FM stations around the world.
"When you have a company that not only owns one radio station but eight radio stations in one town plus all the billboards and all the concert venues, and all the promotion machinery, suddenly they have a level of power that their competitors have no way to compete with. Once their competitor are out of business they have free reign to do just about anything that they please, that is the same just as any other other monopoly."
Indeed Hogan's comments also contradicted the opinions of Lowry Mays, the founder of Clear Channel: "If anyone said we were in the radio business, it wouldn't be someone from our company. We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products."
Yet when radio began in this country, it was not supposed to simply be a commodity. The Federal Communication Commission, a government federal agency that was established by the Communications Act of 1934, was charged with allocating spectrum space to maximize "the public interest and to encourage a diversity of voices so as to promote a vibrant democracy."
Over the years this original mission has largely been forgotten, says Norman Solomon, the executive director of Institute for Public Accuracy. "The FCC has functioned much more as a lap dog to the media industry than any kind of watch dog on behalf of the public to further deregulate and further hijack the public airwaves for private profit."
Clear Channel has gone beyond just axing news. Many believe that the company fires anyone with political opinions other than their own such as Davey D, the host of a popular talk radio show on KMEL, a black-owned station in Oakland, California, that launched the careers of rappers like Tupac Shakur and MC Hammer.
In October 2001 when the United States was on the verge of launching its invasion of Afghanistan, Davey D broadcast an interview with Barbara Lee, the only member of the United States Congress to vote against the war.
KMEL, which had recently been bought by Clear Channel, heard about the show and promptly fired him. Meanwhile company executives sent a memo round to its stations at about the same time warning them not to play any peace songs such as John Lennon's "Imagine" or music by the band Rage Against the Machine.
On the other hand, Clear Channel has not been opposed to all forms of political organizing. In 2003 the company paid for pro-war rallies around the country to support the invasion of Iraq as well as for a 33,000-pound tractor to smash a collection of Dixie Chicks CDs, tapes and other paraphernalia, at an event in Louisiana, because the bands had the arrogance to protest against the war.
Today the rules of media ownership that spawned Clear Channel have been further loosened. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)), which is led by Michael Powell, none other than the son of United States secretary of state, Colin Powell, voted in June to allow companies to buy more television stations and own newspapers as well as broadcast outlets in the same city.
Critics include consumer advocates, civil rights and religious groups, small broadcasters, writers, musicians, academicians and the National Rifle Association. They say most people still get news mainly from television and newspapers, and combining the two is dangerous because those entities will not monitor each other and provide differing opinions.
Promotheus has been one of the leading advocates seeking to block the new ruling. A month ago the organization persuaded a federal court in Philadelphia to temporarily block the new FCC rules.
The delay will give Prometheus Radio Project time to argue that the new regulations decrease the public's ability to get on the air, a difficulty apparent in Philadelphia, which has no public access radio or television.
Meanwhile local broadcasters are starting to get worried about added multinational competition as a result of yet another set of proposed new rules that would allow national satellite radio channels like XM and Sirius to broadcast in local markets by inserting "local" weather reports from their national headquarters.
But Edward Fritt's, NAB president offered some support to the local radio stations, which he said provided important public services.
"Think back to the blackout that paralyzed much of the Northeast and Midwest. Huddled masses in New York gathered around battery-operated or car radios to find out whether they'd been victimized by another terrorist attack.
And then -- Hurricane Isabel, just a few weeks ago. Many radio stations blew out commercials for wall-to-wall coverage of the storm. I can assure you, there weren't many people in Isabel's path who tuned to satellite radio for storm-tracking information," he said.
"We're not against competition. But satellite radio was authorized as a national programming service only! It is past time for the FCC to issue a final rule barring satellite radio companies from delivering locally originated programming."
Listen to the audio version of this story on Free Speech Radio News
Dante Toza is a Correspondent with Free Speech Radio News


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Before you download an app on Google Play (on devices running up to Android 5.1), you may need to give the app permission to access specific capabilities or information on your device, known as permission groups.
Tip: To find which version of Android your device uses, open your device's Settings app . Then, tap System About phone or About tablet.
Review permissions on app download screens
Google Play shows you which permission groups an app will be able to access. This information can help you decide whether you want to install the app.
You'll see the most important permission groups on every download screen. If you want to see the full list of permissions an app can access on your device, follow the instructions under "See all permissions for a specific app" below.
Once you've allowed an app to access a permissions group, the app may use any of the individual permissions that are part of that group. You won't need to manually approve individual permissions updates that belong to a permissions group you've already accepted.
Additional app security on Google Play
Apps on Google Play must also follow Google Play's policies. Google removes apps that are found to violate these policies. Google also has systems that analyze new and existing apps, along with developer accounts to help protect users against potentially harmful software.
See all permissions for a specific app
You can review individual permissions and groups used by the latest version of an app available on the Google Play Store.
- Go to play.google.com/store.
- Go to an app's detail page.
- Under "Additional information," look for "Permissions" and select View details.
Permission group definitions
Select one of the groups below to learn more about what is included in that permissions group. Any permissions that are not part of a permissions group will be shown as "Other."
Note: Over time, the Android operating system may change the way permissions work, including adding or reclassifying certain permissions.In-app purchases
An app can ask you to make purchases inside the app.
An app can do one or more of the following:
- Read sensitive log data
- Retrieve system internal state
- Read your web bookmarks and history
- Retrieve running apps
An app can use settings that control your mobile data connection and potentially the data you receive.
An app can use your account and/or profile information on your device. Identity access may include the ability to:
- Find accounts on the device
- Read your own contact card (example: name and contact information)
- Modify your own contact card
- Add or remove accounts
An app can use your device's contacts, which may include the ability to read and modify your contacts.
An app can use your device's calendar information, which may include the ability to:
- Read calendar events plus confidential information
- Add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
An app can use your device's location. Location access may include:
- Approximate location (network-based)
- Precise location (GPS and network-based)
- Access extra location provider commands
- GPS access
An app can use your device's text messaging (SMS) and/or multimedia messaging service (MMS). This group may include the ability to use text, picture, or video messages.
Important: Depending on your plan, you may be charged by your carrier for text or multimedia messages. SMS access may include the ability to:
- Receive text messages (SMS)
- Read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- Receive text messages (MMS, like a picture or video message)
- Edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- Send SMS messages; this may cost you money
- Receive text messages (WAP)
An app can use your phone and/or its call history. Depending on your plan, you may be charged by your carrier for phone calls. Phone access may include the ability to:
- Directly call phone numbers; this may cost you money
- Write call log (example: call history)
- Read call log
- Reroute outgoing calls
- Modify phone state
- Make calls without your intervention
An app can use files or data stored on your device. Photos/Media/Files access may include the ability to:
- Read the contents of your USB storage (example: SD card)
- Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
- Format external storage
- Mount or unmount external storage
An app can use your device's camera. Camera access may include the ability to:
- Take pictures
- Record video
An app can use your device's microphone. Microphone access may include the ability to record audio.
An app can access your device's Wi-Fi connection information, like if Wi-Fi is turned on and the name(s) of connected devices. Wi-Fi connection information access may include the ability to view Wi-Fi connections.
Note: Since apps typically access the Internet, you'll only see the Wi-Fi connection information permission group on the download screen when installing an app. Apps no longer display the "full internet access" permission on the download screen, but you can always see the full list of permissions by following the instructions under the "See all permissions for a specific app" section above.
An app can control Bluetooth on your device, which includes broadcasting to or getting information about nearby Bluetooth devices.
Allows the app to access data from wearable sensors, such as heart rate monitors. Can receive periodic updates on physical activity levels.
An app can access your device ID(s), phone number, whether you're on the phone, and the number connected by a call. Device ID & call information may include the ability to read phone status and identity.
An app can use custom settings provided by your device manufacturer or application-specific permissions.
Important: If an app adds a permission that is in the "Other" group, you'll always be asked to review the change before downloading an update.
Other access may include the ability to:
- Read your social stream (on some social networks)
- Write to your social stream (on some social networks)
- Access subscribed feeds
You'll see all permissions from the "Other" group listed on the Play Store, including those that weren't shown on the app download screen.
Control permissions you approve during app updates
When an app updates, there may be changes to the permissions group for that app.If you have automatic updates turned on
Permissions groups you've already accepted for that app: You won't need to review or accept these permissions again.
New permissions groups for that app: If the app needs access to new permissions or permissions in the "Other" group, you'll be asked to accept the update even if you've set up automatic updates.
If you prefer to review each update manually, you may want to consider turning off auto-update via the instructions below. You can also always see permissions for specific apps via the steps above.
If you want to manually update apps and accept permission updates individually, you can turn off auto-updates.
Turn off auto-updates for specific apps
- Open the Play Store app .
- Tap Menu My apps & games.
- Select an app.
- Tap More .
- Turn off Enable auto update.
Turn off auto-updates for all apps
- Open the Play Store app .
- Tap Menu Settings.
- Tap Auto-update apps Don't auto-update apps Done.
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This week, Congress passed a budget calling for increasing federal spending and adding $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. Most so-called "fiscal conservatives" voted for this big-spending budget because it allows Congress to repeal some parts of Obamacare via "reconciliation." As important as it is to repeal Obamacare, it does not justify increasing spending and debt.
It is disappointing, but not surprising, that the Obamacare repeal would be used to justify increasing spending. Despite sequestration's minor (and largely phony) spending cuts, federal spending has increased every year since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. Some will attribute this to the fact that the Republican House had to negotiate with a big-spending Democratic president — even though federal spending actually increased by a greater percentage the last time Republicans controlled the White House and Congress than it did under President Obama.
The history of massive spending increases under unified Republican control of government is likely to repeat itself. During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump came out against reducing spending on "entitlements." He also called for a variety of spending increases, including spending one trillion dollars on infrastructure.
One positive part of the infrastructure proposals is their use of tax credits to encourage private sector investments. Hopefully this will be the first step toward returning responsibility for building and maintaining our nation's infrastructure to the private sector.
Unfortunately, the administration appears likely to support increased federal spending on "shovel-ready" jobs. Claims that federal spending helps grow the economy rely on the fallacy of that which is not seen. While everyone sees the jobs and economic growth created by government infrastructure projects, no one sees the greater number of jobs that could have been created had the government not taken the resources out of the hands of private businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs. Despite what some conservatives seem to think, this fallacy applies equally to Republican and Democrat spending.
President-elect Trump has criticized the past two administrations' reckless foreign policy, and he has publicly shamed the powerful Lockheed Martin company for wasting taxpayer money. Yet, he continues to support increasing the military budget and has called for increased military intervention in the Middle East.
The fact is the United States already spends too much on militarism. Not only does the United States spend more on the military than the combined military budgets of the next eight highest spending countries, but Pentagon waste exceeds the total Russian military budget.
America can no longer afford to waste trillions of dollars on a militaristic foreign policy. Donald Trump should follow-up his attacks on wasteful military spending by dramatically changing our foreign policy and working to cut the Pentagon's bloated budget.
If the new administration and Congress increase spending, they will need the Federal Reserve to monetize the growing debt. The need for an accommodative monetary policy gives the Federal Reserve and its allies in Congress and in the deep state leverage over the administration. This leverage could be used, for example, to pressure the administration to abandon support for the Audit the Fed legislation.
Fed action can only delay the inevitable day of reckoning. Raising levels of federal spending and debt will inevitably lead to a major economic crisis. This crisis is likely to be reached when concerns over our national debt cause more countries to reject the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. The only way to avoid this crisis is to stop increasing spending and instead begin reducing spending on all aspects of the welfare-warfare state.
Ron Paul is a physician, author, and former Republican congressman. Paul also is a two-time Republican presidential candidate, and the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1988 U.S. presidential election. His latest book is "Swords into Plowshares." For more of Ron Paul's reports, Go Here Now.
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