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Shocking Verdict in Morgan Trial
Photo: Morgan with his wife, Rosalind
By Ted Pearson
Progressive America Rising
People were stunned yesterday afternoon when jurors, after only 3 hours of deliberation, returned a verdict of "guilty" on all counts against Howard Morgan for the attempted murder of four policemen. Morgan had been shot 28 times by these same policemen after a routine traffic stop at 1:00 am on February 21, 2005 in the Lawndale community on the West Side. His $1 million bail was immediately revoked and he was taken away by Sheriff's police, who refused to allow him to even hug his daughters in the courtroom.
The more than 25 mostly white uniformed Chicago policemen who had packed the courtroom before the verdict celebrated the racist verdict. The Fraternal Order of Police web site posted also celebrated their "victory," which they called "justice for our own."
Observers noted that it is not uncommon in state criminal cases that bail is revoked pending appeals. Attorneys representing Morgan said they would immediately file a motion for a new trial and were considering appeals of the verdicts in both state and federal courts.
Morgan was taken to Cook County Jail's Cermak Hospital due to his damaged condition resulting from the police shootings. He requires assistance in walking and regular medication.
I witnessed much of the trial testimony. Upon learning of the verdicts, it is clear that this jury of ten white people and only two African Americans did not take any time to reviewing nine full days of testimony by witnesses for the prosecution or the defense. They simply wanted to go home, so they did what was expected of them by the system – they quickly brought back the verdict of 'Guilty.' That in itself ought to be grounds for Morgan to be granted a new trial.
The police who tried to murder Howard Morgan should be dismissed from the force and the U. S. Attorney should immediately launch an investigation into the conspiracy to cover-up this heinous crime against humanity. No one, including the Chiefs of Police, Chicago's Mayors, and the State's Attorneys responsible for this ongoing conspiracy should be exempt from this investigation. Current State's Attorney Anita Alvarez especially should be brought before the bar of justice for her role in prosecuting this racist case.
This case reeks of the kind of white supremacy that shocked the nation 80 years ago when nine Black teenagers were falsely accused and sentenced to death in Alabama for the rape of two white girls on the flimsiest of evidence. This case calls for the same level of national and international outrage that ultimately saved the lives of those men. People who care about democracy and fairness will demand that Howard Morgan be freed immediately on bail, that he get a new trial, or that the ridiculous charges against him be dropped.
Only a loud massive public outcry can free Howard Morgan at this point. The criminal justice system will not do it if left alone. Just as in the case of Angela Davis, who inspired the founding of our organization 39 years ago and who was granted bail while being held on a capital murder-conspiracy charge, it will take a broad and irresistible demand by the people that Morgan be allowed to make bail during his appeals, and that the charges against him be dropped.
For the jury the case came down to whom to believe: four white rookie policemen who did all the shooting or Howard Morgan, the young African American woman who witnessed the police crime, and Morgan's attorneys, both of whom are Black. The testimony given by all the witnesses was essentially the same as that given in Morgan's first trial 5 years ago, at which he was acquitted of aggravated battery with a firearm in the cases of all but one of the officers, but at which the jury was deadlocked over whether or not he had attempted to murder them.
Charice Rush was a young teenaged woman who was out late that night in February 2005. She testified at the trial that she witnessed what happened as she sat in her parked car in front nbear the incident. She saw the police pull Morgan's minivan over and with their guns drawn forcibly pull him from the driver's seat and throw him to the ground. She said she saw them open fire on Morgan as he lay on the ground. She said that she did not see Morgan with a gun in his hands at any time.
Morgan is an eight-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department and a thirteen year career policeman for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. He was required to carry a weapon on his job, and he normally carried it when on his way to and from work, as proscribed by Illinois law.
Morgan himself testified that he had been on his way to a family home he was remolding before he had to report for work at 6:00 am that day. He pulled over to let a police squad car with its lights flashing behind him pass, and was surprised when instead they pulled up, got out of their car and approached his vehicle. He said they pulled him out of his mini-van in an unprovoked attack, grabbed the gun he carried for work from his belt, and started shooting. He tried to tell them he was a policeman to no avail. He said he lost consciousness after several shots.
In contrast to the story told by Rush and Morgan, Policemen Timothy Finley and John Wrigley said they first observed the mini-van driven by Morgan going the wrong way down a one way street with its lights off. They followed the van with their lights flashing as it made only "rolling stops" at three stop signs after turning onto 19th St. Another squad car with Policemen Nick Olsen and Eric White came on the scene. When the van finally pulled over Morgan got out of the van. They got out of their car with guns drawn and ordered Morgan to place his hands on the side of the van. As they patted him down he turned on them, drew a gun from his waistband and opened fire on them. They ran for cover behind their cars and returned fire until Morgan ran out of bullets.
However, the testimony of the police, along with a lot of the evidence presented by the prosecution, was contradictory. Some of the police testified that Morgan ended up lying on his back. Some of them testified he ended up lying on his stomach. No one testified that they had turned him over.
Photographs of the van taken by police evidence technicians all showed that the van was parked with its lights on. The police testified that the lights were off all the time, which is why they said they were first drawn to the van.
The police said they stopped firing when Morgan ran out of bullets. Officer Eric White, however, testified that he had stood over shot Morgan and shot him in the back and struck him in the head after the shooting stopped "to protect my fellow-officers," as he lay on his stomach in the street.
The police all testified that several hours after the shooting they each engaged in "roundtable" discussions about the incident with police officials and attorneys from the State's Attorney's office.
The prosecution guaranteed that the jury would not pay attention by presenting a seemingly endless account of every shell casing and ever bullet fragment found at the scene in the greatest possible detail. These included some casings and bullets fired from Morgan's own gun. Significantly, the police identified only three of the twenty-eight bullets taken from Morgan's body by the surgeons who treated him at Mt. Sinai Hospital. They did not say what happened to the other 25 bullets or if they had been kept. They also did not keep or indentify any of the many bullets that pierced the mini-van, which they confiscated and had destroyed (crushed) before any forensic investigation of it could be done.
Since Morgan testified that the police had taken his gun immediately, and when everything was over that gun's bullets had all been fired, it was a major error not to have preserved the bullets that hit Morgan and could have established that some of them came from his own gun fired by police.
An independent observer of the proceedings would have come away with a picture of what happened very different from that accepted by the jury. Howard Morgan, after a dinner at home with his family where they were living on the South Side, decided to go to the family home he was renovating in Lawndale on his way to work that February 21 in 2005. On his way he was pulled over by four very young, white rookie policemen just before 1:00 am. They had been hyped up with warnings from their superiors that Lawndale was all Black, and was a "high risk" neighborhood.
They got out of their cars with guns drawn and pulled Morgan from his car. They threw him to the ground. One of them saw the pistol that he was legally carrying and shouted "Gun!" Perhaps he or another officer grabbed it from his belt. The others immediately started firing and continued firing until they thought Morgan was dead.
They were terrible shots in their panicked state. In addition to the 28 bullets that went into Morgan's body collapsed on the ground they fired wildly. Countless rounds pierced the side and rear of the van, and others ended up in furniture and walls in nearby apartments. Two of their shots wounded their fellow officers.
In other words, they panicked and went on a rampage. It is only because of their poor shooting and, as Morgan's wife Rosalind always pints out, the grace of God that can be responsible for the fact that Morgan was not murdered.
Once they realized that Morgan was not dead and others arrived on the scene they had to invent a story to explain their behavior. The "roundtable" discussions they held later that day with representatives of the State's Attorney and the Fraternal Order of Police helped them get their stories straight.
They charged Morgan with attempted murder of the police and conspired to convict him, to save their careers, their department, and the City from the millions that would otherwise be due to their victim for the permanent damage and terrible suffering they have put him, his family, and his community through.
Morgan's attorneys are Randolph Stone and Herschella Conyers are both Professors of Clinical Law at the Mandel Legal Clinic of the University of Chicago. Stone was, for many years, the chief Public Defender of Cook County.
Ted Pearson is Co-Chairperson of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression,
People can support Morgan's legal defense by sending checks or money orders to the Howard Morgan Defense Fund, c/o Church of God, 1738 W. Marquette Rd, Chicago 60636.
Morgan's address is Howard Morgan 2012-0127254 Cook County Jail P.O. Box 089002 Chicago, Illinois 60608


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An alien spaceship has been flying over Santiago, Chile.
The spaceship first made an appearance during an acrobatic air-show at the El Bosque Air Force Base in Santiago.
The CEFAA, the government agency which investigates strange air phenomena in Chile, found the object on seven separate pieces of video tape from the event.
Ricardo Bermudez, CEFAA's director, told authorities that the spots were caused by an object traveling at speeds in excess of 4,000 mph.
Bermudez contacted Dr. Susan Begley, of the United Nations Panel on Extraterrestrials. Begley sent a team member, Dr. Viola Ugowna to Chile to investigate. Ungowna examined all the videos and interviewed many of the eyewitnesses. She also examined physical evidence in the ear.
"It is clear that the spaceship is from Planet Zeeba. The evidence is clear – it's a direct match with other Zeeban ships we have tracked over the last year-and-a-half," she said. "But, as I told the Chilean authorities, Zeebans have arrived on our planet to help us save the planet. They probably have come to Chile to help the citizens here recover from the earthquake of 2010."
The Chilean Government is publicly denying that the Zeeban ship has been seen over Santiago, but sources inside the government told WWN that they are convince it is an alien ship from Zeeba.
First, humans would be unable to survive inside an object travelling at such speed, and second, that there was no sonic boom – and third, they believe Dr. Susan Begley and Dr. Viola Ugowna.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP)-- A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation of the Connecticut school massacre says the brother of the gunman has been "extremely cooperative" and is not under arrest.
The official tells The Associated Press that Ryan Lanza, of Hoboken, N.J., is still be being questioned but is not in custody and is not believed to have any connection to the school killings.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the investigation.
The official says Ryan Lanza's computers and phone records were being searched but only "in an abundance of caution." He says Ryan told authorities he had not been in touch with his brother in recent years.


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Researchers have discovered — in a classic case of scientific serendipity — that the bright light from sports stadiums and urban street lights may boost daytime levels of ozone, a key air pollutant in many heavily populated areas. That's among the topics included in a broader article about the chemistry of air pollution in Monday's edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine.
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This week, I am unpacking a few of the boxes of books, that have been in the corner of my bedroom for about three months. Unfortunately, unpacking books, for me, often involves more reading than unpacking, and that is pretty much what has happened this time. Ran across Anne LaMott's PLAN B: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FAITH, which I loved the first time. LaMott's brand of Christianity is about as shiny, and pious, and squeaky clean as mine, which is to say it's none of those things, at all. Anyway, I decided to make found poems…
"Through this Craziness"
"How are we
going to get through
this craziness?"
I asked Father Tom.
There was
For a moment.
Left foot,
right foot,
left foot,
I don't know
who can lead us away
from the craziness
and barbarity.
But I know
that in the desert
you stay out
of the blistering sun.
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and in the cool
of the evening.
You seek
In the desert
you stay out
of the blistering sun.
"Saying Goodbye"
After the loss of her dog, Sadie:
It still hurts
to have lost Sadie.
She was like
the floating garlands
sculptor Andy Goldsworthy
made in the documentary
Rivers and Tides:
yellow and red and green leaves,
connected to one another with thorns,
floating away
in the current
drifting back
toward the shore
getting cornered
in eddies,
drifting free again.
All along
you know
that they will disperse
once they are out
of your vision,
but they will never be gone entirely
because you saw them.
Planting bulbs
always sounds
like a romantic and fun thing to do
but it never is.
The earth is rocky
and full of roots,
it's clay.
It seems doomed
and polluted
yet you dig little holes
for ugly
shrivelled bulbs,
throw in a handful of poppy seeds,
and cover everything over,
and you know
you'll never see them again--
it's death
and clay
and shrivel.
Your hands
are nicked
from the rocks
your nails
are black
with the soil.
December and January
are so grim…
Yet in spring
and poppies
are waiting
in the wings.
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|The City of Grapevine has one of the largest deployments of adaptive traffic signal control in the United States. Adaptive systems are intended to provide a more flexible means of adjusting to changing traffic conditions as compared to traditional signal timing and coordination.
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By: Nicole Herman-Mercer, Social Scientist, USGS National Research Program
The unique partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC) yields critical data for the assessment of climate change effects in the Yukon River Basin (YRB). The YRITWC is an international, Indigenous, nonprofit organization, created in 1997 with the mission of monitoring, preserving, and protecting the YRB. Today, the YRITWC is guided by an Inter-Tribal accord, which has been signed by seventy of the Indigenous governments of the YRB in Canada and Alaska.
The YRB is the fourth largest drainage basin in North America. The basin, which is 855,000 km2, covers arctic and subarctic terrain roughly twice the size of California and is underlain by continuous and discontinuous permafrost. Climate warming in the Arctic and sub-arctic has been well recorded in recent years. Observations including a lengthening of the growing season, permafrost thaw and deepening of the active layer, thinner river ice, and warmer temperatures have all been documented. These environmental changes are anticipated to impact water chemistry, sediment loads, and river discharge over the coming decades. A better understanding of baseline trends and processes controlling the water-quality of the Yukon River and its tributaries will facilitate the proper management of resources as conditions alter in response to environmental change. The YRB is the largest undammed river system in the world and is considered relatively pristine. For these reasons, the YRB is an ideal natural laboratory to study climate change in the Arctic and sub-arctic.
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The USGS began a landmark study of the Yukon River and its major tributaries in 2000 with the objective of establishing a baseline water-quality dataset against which future changes in the YRB may be measured. The USGS YRB project collected its last sample in 2005. That same year a relationship was established between the USGS and YRITWC as the council was interested in beginning a community-based water-quality monitoring program. A growing concern over historical contamination and observations by community members that water conditions were changing led to an interest in monitoring the water. The USGS guided the YRITWC in the development and implementation of a basin-wide water-quality monitoring program modified from, and expanding upon, the USGS study. USGS scientists trained YRITWC staff and interested community members in water-quality sampling techniques following USGS protocols and in 2006 the YRITWC and community members began collecting samples at 20 sites throughout the basin.
Since 2006 the program has expanded, accumulating an increasing number of water samples and interacting with a growing number of Yukon communities. Beginning with only 20 water-sampling sites in the Alaskan section of the basin, the YRITWC today has sites that continue from the headwaters of the Yukon River near Whitehorse in Yukon Territory, Canada, to the outlet of the Yukon River in Pilot Station, Alaska (see Figure 1). The enormous scale of the YRB presents a unique set of logistical challenges that have been met by the collaborative partnership between the USGS and the YRITWC.
During each field season since 2009 approximately 200 samples have been collected from roughly 40 sampling locations. Samples from seven to fifteen of these sites are collected by YRITWC staff—depending on levels of community participation, funding, and other support. Community members collect all other samples (see Figure 2). Community members participating in the water-quality program in Alaska are often Tribal Environmental Coordinators funded through the Environmental Protection Agency's Indian General Assistance Program. In Canada, participating community members typically work for the Lands and Resources department of their First Nation government. Water-quality field measurements include pH, specific conductance (a measure of the total ion load of the water), water temperature, and dissolved oxygen content—in addition to the collection and processing of a suite of water samples for laboratory analyses by the USGS. The YRITWC staff in Fairbanks, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, coordinate sample shipment from the communities and complete post-processing of the samples. The water-quality samples are then shipped to the USGS National Research Program laboratories in Boulder, Colorado where they are analyzed for dissolved organic carbon, greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane, major ions, nitrogen species and phosphate, trace metals, and water isotopes.
Real Results
The USGS-YRITWC partnership has yielded six years of data collection thus far, adding to existing USGS datasets. This joint effort has resulted in a nearly continuous dataset since 1979 at some sampling locations and is augmenting hydrologic information collected at USGS fixed stations (see Figure 1). The USGS and YRITWC jointly published a USGS Open-File Report with data from all samples collected from 2006-2008 and plan to publish data from 2009-2012. In 2009 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by the acting director of the USGS and YRITWC board members reinforcing the partnership with renewal expected at the 2013 biennial YRITWC summit meeting (see Figure 3).
New Partnerships on the Horizon
Based on the success of the USGS-YRITWC community-based water-quality monitoring program, USGS scientists are embarking on a new collaboration with an Indigenous nonprofit organization in the design, training, and implementation of a water-quality monitoring program. The Kuskokwim River Watershed Council (KRWC) was founded in 2005 when a Watershed Summit was held for people from across the river basin. At the summit, community members spoke of their concern for the health of the river. The Kuskokwim watershed is located in southwest Alaska, situated south of the Yukon River, and covers 58,000 square miles.
Much like the YRITWC in 2005, the KRWC is interested in designing a community-based water-quality monitoring program built around the concerns of community members. However, in addition to general contamination and climate change concerns, the impetus of this program is an increasing concern in water-quality as mining interests move into the Kuskokwim watershed. The KRWC would like to begin collecting baseline data against which to measure any changes in water-quality generated by increased mining activity.
Scientists at the USGS National Research Program (NRP) have applied to the USGS Office of Tribal Relations to secure funding to train community members in the Kuskokwim watershed to collect water-quality field measurements and assist the KRWC in designing their water-quality monitoring program. This program will begin with instantaneous measurements of physical and chemical water properties made by community members co-located with USGS fixed stations on the Kuskokwim River (see Figure 1) and sites of community concern on the river. In the future the KRWC may expand into sample collection for laboratory analysis. In addition to water-quality monitoring, the KRWC is interested in assessing invasive species in their area. NRP scientists are collaborating with scientists from the USGS Alaska Science Center in designing a community-based invasive species protocol that will fit the needs of the KRWC. If funding is secured from the USGS Office of Tribal Relations, NRP and Alaska Science Center scientists will travel to two Kuskokwim watershed communities to train community members and KRWC staff in field water-quality measurements, sample collection, and invasive species monitoring.
The unique partnership between the USGS and the YRITWC provides mutual benefits by fostering outreach efforts that have been essential for community empowerment and by generating scientific data for prohibitively large and remote regions that would be challenging for USGS scientists to sample as robustly alone. The addition of a new partnership with the KRWC to create a community-based monitoring program will only increase these benefits by growing the spatial extent of data collection and empowering more people to take charge of important science in their own backyard.
More information about this project is available here or by contacting Nicole Herman-Mercer (nhmercer [at] usgs.gov).


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Take a recent entry from the New York Times: Bringing Tech Culture to the Staid College Quad. First of all, what non-hibernating person thinks the college quad is staid? A major Atlantic Monthly analysis of "The Dark Power of Fraternities" showed being on the quad endangers your health. In staid Santa Barbara this year, some of my students were date-raped, stalked, framed by the local cops, and killed in a drive-by shooting. The college quad sees protests about racism, abortion, foreign policy, police violence, and administrative misconduct. The quad does teaching and research that is generally over the horizon of the average newsroom. Staid is a patronizing and ridiculous word for today's universities, which are fully immersed in their surrounding societies, while having also to stay ahead of them.
If the outdated stereotype is one problem with college coverage, falling for sales pitches is another. Journalists seem now to believe that professional educators are a selfish special interest, while corporate marketers are impartial observers who offer the true picture.
The Staid Quad article is about the high cost of college textbooks.
In a report last year, the Government Accountability Office said the price of new textbooks rose 82 percent from 2002 to 2012, only slightly less than the 89 percent rise in tuition and fees, and far higher than the 28 percent rise in overall consumer prices.Very bad. Textbook prices are outrageous. Who gets to explain the problem? Dan Rosensweig, the chief executive of Chegg, an education services company. "Learning has been an inefficient market," he says. This fits with the stereotype that teaching is inefficient and teachers like it that way, so they are just fine with overpriced texts. Chegg.com's comparative shopping service is apparently the answer – improving price information will make textbooks a more efficient market and thereby lower prices.
Actually, no. Students aren't price gouged by universities or their generally sad, post-book "bookstores" that sell big gulp water bottles and school sweatshirts. Students aren't price gouged by faculty, who have zero control over text pricing. Students are price gouged by publishing monopolies, who set prices on a captive audience. Academic publishers are gradually strangling university libraries to get 20-36% profit margins on scientific journals, where investigators review for free but pay to publish. The same goes for textbooks. You can't write a good article on excessive textbook prices unless you can say "exploitative economics of academic publishing," but that's what this ed-tech article does. Textbook prices have risen because for-profit educational services make as much money as they possibly can off students, and seek market positions that protect this pricing power. Sure enough, Chegg charges for tutoring and job placement services that universities currently provide their students for free. And yet we are supposed to think that Chegg-style for-profit services will cure cost problems that their sector has produced.
There have been free services at the public college near you, but not such good free services anymore, since the public colleges that serve the lower- and middle-income, socially-un-networked students who really need job placement have been subject to year after year, decade after decade of budget cuts. These public colleges now spend in many cases ten to fifteen cents on the dollar Harvard spends on its students. The California Community College system, with its wealth of first-generation and low-income students, has 2000 students per advisor. So why don't the CC's have more advisors. Because they don't have the money. Why don't they have they money? Now we're getting to the right question.
They don't have money because state politicians keep cutting their budgets. This pushes us one more step. Why these constant cuts to the state share of higher ed? Well, there are strong competitors that weren't around 50 years ago, like Medicaid and the world's most overactive prison system.
But there is also the tax avoidance culture of the corporate America to which "educational services" companies belong. Think Apple, tax avoidance champion on 35% profit margins (important revelations here and here). Think Google, who furnished the engineer who started Udacity, the company dedicated to driving market inefficiencies out of teaching by replacing teachers with screens—until that turned out not actually to work. Think the whole iEconomy, engaged in continuous tax arbitrage and thus social disinvesting around the world. Think effective corporate tax rates at 12.1%, 1/3rd the nominal rate, 1/3rd the rate you and I pay. Think Bechtel, UC's partner in national lab management, "one of the country's largest engineering firms, [re]organized as [an] S-corporation to avoid corporate income taxes." Think the growing gap between corporate profits and corporate tax returns, on the federal level, which is not so different from trends in the states, where corporate taxes are down to 5% of revenues (California).
Whether or not the products of the private alternatives to public universities actually work, the cuts continue, conveniently for Chegg et al., who can charge for services that used to be free in the public universities that tax arbitrage continues to destroy.
Should journalists have to talk tax code every time they praise ed tech? No. Should they ask whether the educational solutions of corporate marketers aren't in fact the problem? Absolutely yes.
And what I am as a professor doing about the high price of textbooks. What I have always done: Order old editions that have lots of used copies around. Put copies on reserve in the library. Give desk copies away. Scan and post documents on protected websites. And of course overuse my departmental xerox machine--which we'll have money to replace around 2023.


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There is a well-known central limit theorem for as a stationary sequences.
If $( X_n )_n$ is a stationary sequence and $E X_n=0$ then under suitable mixing conditions the sequence $S_n := n^{-1/2}\sum_{i=1}^n X_i$ converges weakly to a normal random variable. (This is very simplified version of Theorem 7.7.6 of Durrett's Probability Theory ...).
This theorem is very nice but works only when $X_n$ have finite variance (the mixing conditions above require it).
I am almost sure that there must be an analogue of this theorem for variables with infinite variance (of course the sequence will converge to a stable variable). But I couldn't find it in popular textbooks (I check Durrett - "Probability theory...", Kallemberg - "Foundations of probability" and Jacod, Shiryaev - "Limit theorems ..."). Does anybody know any good reference (e.g. a textbook)?


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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is rejoining the board of directors at Marriott International, taking a step back into the business world four weeks after the end of his unsuccessful presidential bid.
Romney's return to the large hotel chain's board indicates he is not ready to enter a traditional retirement after his long quest to become president.
"It is an honor to once again be able to serve in the company of leaders like Bill Marriott and Arne Sorenson and to support the work of the tens of thousands of Marriott associates who make Marriott International the renowned success that it is," Romney, 65, said in a statement.
Romney has served on the board of the large hotel chain several times. He was on the board from 1993 to 2002, leaving when he was elected Massachusetts governor. He returned to the board from January 2009 to January 2011, the only job he took in the private sector in between his two presidential bids.
Romney earned nearly $114,000 from being on the board for the previous year, according to campaign finance records that Romney filed in 2011.
Romney's ties to the Marriott family began at his birth. Romney, whose first name is Willard, was named after the hotels chain's founder, J. Willard Marriott, who was friends with Romney's father, George. Marriott was also the preferred hotel of choice during his presidential campaigns.
Members of the Marriott family have been longtime contributors to Romney's political super PACs.
"We will benefit from his tremendous energy and capability to guide long-term success in an increasingly complex business environment,'' J.W. Marriott Jr., the company's executive chairman, said in a statement.
Since he lost the election, Romney has largely retreated from public view as he contemplates what to do next. He is planning to move into an office within Solamere Capital, an investment firm on Boston's Newbury Street that was cofounded by his oldest son, Tagg, and his campaign's national finance chairman, Spencer Zwick.
Romney is subleasing the space but has no plans to have a role in the firm.
Last week, he had private lunch at the White House with his campaign rival, President Obama. Both sides said the meeting was cordial, although few specifics were released on what was discussed. - MATT VISER
Kerry colleagues speculate about secretary of state post
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has been steering clear of speculation about a possible nomination for secretary of state.
That has not stopped his colleagues from openly discussing his possible selection, especially now that UN Ambassador Susan Rice – who is said to be the first choice of President Obama for the job – has encountered resistance among senators.
On Monday, Senator John McCain, one of the senators raising questions about Rice, had a bit of fun at Kerry's expense at a Capitol Hill press conference about a disabilities treaty.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary,'' McCain said after Kerry introduced his Arizona colleague. The remark drew laughs as Kerry stood awkwardly by. The Massachusetts senator had recovered and was ready with his own quip by the time McCain gave up the podium.
"Thank you very much, Mr. President,'' Kerry said, a good-natured dig at McCain's losing 2008 campaign. Kerry, of course, lost his own presidential bid in 2004. - CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND
Cheney working on book about his heart ailments
NEW YORK — Former vice president Dick Cheney, one of the world's most prominent heart patients, is working on a book about his many battles with coronary disease and the revolutionary changes in treatment that helped keep him alive.
Cheney, 71, is collaborating with his cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, and with his daughter, Liz Cheney. Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Monday that the book is scheduled for next fall. It is currently untitled.
''It explains and talks about all the developments in cardiology by going through my own case,'' the former vice president said Monday during a brief telephone interview. ''I'm alive today because of the tremendous advances that have been made.''
Financial terms were not disclosed, although a ''portion of the authors' net proceeds from the book will be donated to charity,'' according to Scribner.
Cheney and his daughter also worked together on his memoir ''In My Time,'' published in 2011. Cheney, who received a heart transplant in March, said the new book will be completely ''non-political.'' - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Obama wants DNC's chairwoman to stay on
WASHINGTON — President Obama wants Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz to stay on as his party's chairwoman.
Wasserman Schultz has overseen the Democratic National Committee since early 2011. Party officials credit her in part with helping the president carry her home state of Florida, as well as leading the party to an expanded majority in the Senate and more seats in the House.
''I've asked Debbie Wasserman Schultz to continue her excellent work as chair of the DNC,'' Obama wrote on Twitter Monday. ''Thanks for all you do, Debbie.''
The tweet was signed ''bo'', which the White House says is a signal that the president wrote it personally.
Wasserman Schultz also took to Twitter to respond, writing, ''Thank you, Mr. President. I am honored to serve.''
Democratic officials said Obama asked DNC members to back Wasserman Schultz when they meet in January, just after the president's inauguration.
A mother of three and a breast cancer survivor, Wasserman Schultz, 46, has represented a reliably Democratic Fort Lauderdale-area district since 2005.
Along the way she has earned a reputation as a workhorse and as an outspoken liberal happy to duke it out on television with her Republican counterparts. - ASSOCIATED PRESS


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So rather than aimless rambling today, I've been tagged to do a meme by Pixie at You Say Tomahto, I Say Tomayto! Thanks Pixie, and if you've not been on her blog, do!
These are the rules: 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules. 2. Share 5 facts about yourself 3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them). 4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their Blogs.
So here are a few things about me!
1. One of my more bizarre habits is looking at my friends, or other people I love, and thinking about all the things I want to cook for them. (I.e. 'Oh, she loves cheesecake, I'll have to make this one for her...'). I admitted this over lunch at school once, and after my friends stopped laughing (so, about twenty minutes) they told me it was adorable X__X . I think I just show affection through food - there are a few recipes that I'll only make for people if I really love them, heh. See below.
2. I got an interview to do English Literature at Oxford University at the end of last year. It went okay, but I didn't get a place (there were eight places at the college I applied for, and about fifty people had interviews. God knows how many people applied). So I'm probably going to uni at Southampton in October =]
3. I adore everything about Japan (I went there with a friend last summer) and want to live there some day. Occasionally I feel achingly homesick for it, which is pretty ironic seeing as I was only in the country ten days, haha.
4. I've been planning a novel since I was about twelve and want to get it published one day. Obviously it doesn't bear much resemblance to the twelve-year-old version, but it's grown into something I'm pretty proud of. I'm still not done planning though - it's turned into a bit of an epic, heh.
5. I hate the winter (I have SAD) and was obviously not at all pleased to get up yesterday thinking, 'ah, the first of February! The worst is over!' and open the blind on my skylight to find snow outside. Hopefully it'll get lighter soon
and I won't have to wait til the weekends to have natural light for photographs!
I'd like to tag Ellie at Kitchen Wench, Ovenhaven at Epicurian Escapism, R Khooks at R Khooks, Jessica at Su Good Sweets, and Jennifer at Bake Or Break. Obviously you don't have to do it unless you want to!
This recipe happens to be one of the things I often think of when pondering what I'd like to make for someone. My gran used to make these (I'm going in for my gran's recipes a lot recently, aren't I?) so I like to make these for my mum, along with a cup of tea, or when I'm feeling nostalgic. Tea is pretty much the answer to everything, in my view.
Despite the name and appearance, these are NOT Bakewell Tarts, and don't taste anything like them - SO many people, when I offer them one, say, 'no, I don't like Bakewell Tarts'. This enrages me, haha, because they really really don't know what they're missing. TRY them. Give them away if you don't like them, but you will =P. These slices are pretty much the greatest expression of love I can give.
Almond Slices
Family recipe from my Gran
225g (8oz) plain flour
170g (6oz) butter
60g (2oz) ground almonds
60g (2oz) caster sugar
2 egg yolks
Raspberry jam
115g (4oz) ground almonds
170g (6oz) caster sugar
2 egg whites
1. Mix dry ingredients for the base in a bowl, rub in butter and mix with egg yolks. Knead together into a soft dough, then place in a flat tin, pressing flat and into the corners with your fingertips (she doesn't say what size, typically, but we use a rectangular slice tin).
2. Spread the base with raspberry jam (a couple of heaped tablespoons should be enough, but depends how much jam you want). Mix the ground almonds, sugar and egg whites for the base together and spread this over the jam, being careful not to get them mixed together.
3. Bake for about 20mins at 200C until the meringue-like topping turns golden. Leave to cool a little while before cutting into slices, but they taste best eaten still slightly warm ^__^
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
I'll be at the fantastic ThoughtBubble show in Leeds on the 17-18th of November. I'll be signing at table C on both days from 10:30 - 12:00, and I'll have loads of unseen HALF PAST DANGER material with me. Drop by and say howdy if ye're aboot.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Half Past Danger - Teaser
Please head on over to the HPD site to find out more info if you're interested, I'd really appreciate the support!
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I'll be at the Kapow convention in London this coming weekend; saturday evening and all day sunday. I'm situated at Table 167 in Artist's Alley (alongside fellow Mick/knuckledragger Dec Shalvey) where I'll be signing, sketching, and chatting about (and showing lots of unseen pages from) Half Past Danger to all and sundry. Say howdy if ye're about.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Progress Report
Hey! Been months since my last post here, wanted to update anybody that happened to still be reading! Production on Half Past Danger has been a fairly slow-going but ultimately very interesting and rewarding experience. The whole series is fully written, and I'm almost finished the first complete issue, just some colouring work left to do. After that's done it'll come time to pitch the project to prospective publishers, and the terror-sweat shall begin. This is the cover to the first issue, for loads more artwork and production info please hop over to the Half Past Danger site to see what I'm cookin' up.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Half Past Danger
Right now I'm working on what is my first ever creator-owned book, Half Past Danger. It's a tale of high adventure set in 1943 during WW2, and I'm really enjoying the process of creating and writing my own story and characters. I've started a production blog documenting the process, located here. Please take a look if you get a minute free and let me know how you think I'm doing. Any and all feedback would be appreciated, as I'm in uncharted waters here!
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Teen Wolf
Next week sees the release of issue 1 of 'Teen Wolf' from Top Cow/Image. The story is called 'Bite Me', and is written by my former Angel collaborator and scribe extraordinaire David Tischmann. It's a brand new, original tale overseen by the show's creators, and a great, fun ride. I'd reccommend it to any fans of the new show(which apparently is doing really well straight out of the blocks, which is fantastic).
Check it out if ye get the chance.
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Many of us bring with us Christmas holiday food traditions from our grandparents and parents, and their family backgrounds. If we're part of a couple, our partner brings more, sometimes very different, traditions along. Unless both come from the same ethnic and religious background, there will be some compromising, and some making of new traditions. (I love this— it gives us more scope for experimentation!) If vegetarian or vegan diet is in the mix, new culinary traditions must be found as well.
If you have a mixed ethnic background, as I do, you probably choose what appeals to you from the different traditions in your family (or combined families). For instance, my father, Alejandro Jaime Urbina, a Peruvian of Spanish and Italian descent, fondly recalled the Panetón (the Peruvian version of Italian Panettone) that his Tia Maria baked in a brick oven in the central courtyard of his large, Spanish-style boyhood home in Lima. Because of his memories, I began making Panettone for Christmas many years ago, eventually devising my own low-fat, vegan version. (Panettone is a rich yeast bread, slightly sweet, and flavored with citrus zest, dried fruit, anise and almonds.) I later discovered that my father's Italian family, who immigrated to Peru from the Italian Riviera in the 1800s, may have been making Panettone Genovese, rather than the Panettone di Milano, which most Italians simply call Panettone. The Genovese version is not as rich as the Milanese version, and is flavored more exotically. It's the inspiration for my own vegan version of Panetón, which I included in my book World Vegan Feast.
This is a bread machine version of Panetón, from my book "World Vegan Feast".
A newer tradition: My husband Brian, though not French-Canadian, was born in the province of Quebec and he was so happy when I came up with a vegan version of Tourtière (a special "meat" pie). It's an integral part of many Canadian Christmas celebrations now- certainly in our house, when we celebrate Réveillon, the Quebec Christmas Eve. This is something that I had never heard of before coming to Canada from the USA and, even then, because we lived in Western Canada, I had no real experience with it. But over 20 years ago, I devised a vegan recipe for my book The Almost No-Fat Holiday Cookbook and have used that recipe all this time, although I usually use commercial vegan hamburger "crumbles" now, instead of ground seitan.
This year I decided that it needed a make-over—more "oomph" in the flavor department. I also read about some versions of the pie that are made with oatmeal as the thickener instead of the usual potatoes, so I decided to try that, too. I made four pies (Brian's always afraid that there won't be any leftovers! ) and my new Tourtière was a big hit.
Tourtière is traditionally eaten at any meal, hot or cold, with gravy, relish, chutney or ketchup (some members of our family have been known to eat it with hot sauce or salsa). This year I made a tomato-apple chutney that resembles an old-fashioned homemade Quebec accompaniment to Tourtière which is called French-Canadian "Ketchup", but is chunky and a little spicy, made with tomatoes and fruit. I'll post that recipe below, too.
|Tourtière with homemade Tomato-Apple Chutney
Printable Recipe (includes pastry recipe and chutney recipe)
Serves 6-8
Tourtière is good any time of the year, and makes good picnic fare. The recipe can be doubled, tripled or quadrupled, and Tourtière freezes well.
A Double crust of Low-Fat Oil Pastry (see below) or your favorite pastry.
Nondairy milk for brushing
1 large onion
2 cups chopped celery with leaves
2 large cloves garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 tablespoon dark sesame oil
1 bay leaf
1/2 tablespoon dried savory
1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
1 package Yves "Ground Round" or other vegan "hamburger crumbles", OR 2 cups of your favorite vegan hamburger substitute, such as ground "beefy" seitan or textured soy protein (TSP or TVP) reconstituted in a tasty broth
1 cup hot water mixed with
1 1/4 teaspoons Better Than Bouillon "No-Chicken" broth paste
1/2 cup dry red wine (can be non-alcoholic)
1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (oatmeal)
2 tablespoons ordinary ketchup (can be organic)
(NOTE: do not omit the ketchup! Strange as it may seem, the ketchup rounds out the flavor nicely and you don't actually taste it.)
1/4 teaspoon EACH ground allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
If you have a food processor, cut the peeled onion into chunks and add to the processor bowl along wit the celery and garlic. Pulse until minced. (Otherwise, you'll have to mince the vegetables by hand with a sharp knife.)
In a large heavy skillet over high heat (nonstick, if possible), saute the minced vegetables in the 2 oils over medium-high heat until the onion softens, adding drops of water as need to keep from sticking. Add the bay leaf, dried savory and rosemary and saute for a few more minutes. Stir in the hamburger substitute, the hot water mixed with the broth paste, red wine, rolled oats and ketchup. Simmer over medium-low heat, uncovered, for about 30 minutes, or until the mixture thickens.
Remove the bay leaf and stir in the allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Taste for salt and add freshly-ground black pepper to taste. Smooth the mixture out on a baking sheet and place in the freezer to cool off quickly while you make and roll the pastry (see recipe below).
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line a 9" pie dish with half of the pastry and fill with the cooled Filling (which should have thickened as it cooled). Cover with remaining pastry and trim and flute the edges. (I cut a star in the center this time with a little cookie cutter before placing the pastry on top of the Filling.) Cut slits in the top and brush with nondairy milk. Bake for 50 minutes.
Cool on a rack. Serve warm or at room temperature with relish, chutney or ketchup (some members of our family have been known to eat it with hot sauce or salsa).
Nutrition Facts for 6 servings per pie
Nutrition (per serving): 412.5 calories; 39% calories from fat; 18.7g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 687.1mg sodium; 633.6mg potassium; 44.7g carbohydrates; 7.6g fiber; 4.8g sugar; 37.1g net carbs; 17.2g protein; 9.0 points.
Nutrition Facts for 8 servings per pie
Nutrition (per serving): 309.4 calories; 39% calories from fat; 14.0g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 515.3mg sodium; 475.2mg potassium; 33.5g carbohydrates; 5.7g fiber; 3.6g sugar; 27.8g net carbs; 12.9g protein; 6.6 points.
Printable Recipe
Makes two 9-inch crusts
This crust contains about half the fat of ordinary pie pastry dough, and I use oil, rather than solid shortening, and half whole wheat flour. This is the pastry I have used for many years and the only pie crust that doesn't give my husband indigestion. The pastry flour and nondairy "buttermilk" make a tender, crispy crust rather than a flaky one, but I have never had any complaints. (PS: The recipe can be doubled, tripled or quadrupled.)
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (do not use ordinary whole wheat flour or the pastry will be tough)
7/8 cup (14 tablespoons or 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons) unbleached white flour
3/4 teaspoon fine salt
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon granulated unbleached organic sugar
6 tablespoons soy, hemp or nut milk
1 teaspoon lemon juice or cider vinegar
6 tablespoons oil (olive oil for savory pies; canola or sunflower for sweet pies)
Mix the 2 flours together in a medium bowl with the salt, baking powder and sugar. In a small bowl, mix together the non-dairy milk with the lemon juice or vinegar. Whisk in the oil until it is emulsified (you can't see any oil globules). Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients and mix the dough gently with a fork until it holds together in a ball. (If it's too dry, sprinkle with a tiny bit of water.)
If you have time, place the flattened dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate it for 30 minutes to an hour before rolling out. Divide the dough in half, roll out and bake the pastry as you would an ordinary crust. Tip: Roll the dough out on a lightly floured sheet of baking parchment– it never sticks!
Printable Recipe
BRYANNA'S TOMATO-APPLE CHUTNEY (KIND OF LIKE FRENCH-CANADIAN "KETCHUP") Makes about 6 cups
This is easy to make and just spicy enough.
One 28 oz. can plum tomatoes
4 apples, diced (don't peel)
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cups red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
6 to 8 cloves garlic, crushed or minced
1 cup raisins (any kind)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon hot sauce (optional)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons salt or to taste
freshly-ground black pepper to taste
Dump the canned tomatoes (juice and all) into a large pot and, with clean or gloved hands, squish the tomatoes with your fingers to break them up into small chunks. Add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Turn heat down to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for about 45-50 minutes, or until it has a thicker consistency, almost like a chunky jam. Cool to room temperature. This will keep 3 to 4 weeks in the refrigerator, or you can seal it (while hot) into 6 half-pint canning jars and process in a boiling water bath for 20 minutes.
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It looks like such a lovely spread! Any chance you will share your "Ham Gravy" recipe?!
Happy New Year!
- Sun Dec 30, 01:51:00 PM PST
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Thanks, Courtney-- the gravy recipe is actually posted on this blog, with my Cajun Red bean Hash-- http://veganfeastkitchen.blogspot.ca/2010/10/new-orleans-style-white-beans-cajun-red.html
and the Printable recipe is here:
- Sun Dec 30, 01:56:00 PM PST
- pattk1220 said...
I plan to make this for the holiday. Often I substitute cooked brown lentils for meat substitutes. Have you tried lentils in this recipe? I wonder if they would be too wet. Thanks for sharing so many wonderful recipes on your blog!
- Fri Dec 20, 07:34:00 AM PST
- Unknown said...
Made this yesterday and will bake tomorrow. Photos here:
- Tue Dec 24, 01:07:00 PM PST
- MarjRC said...
I've been looking for a vegan version of tourtiere and your recipe sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing. I'm going to try it out. :)
- Sun Nov 23, 01:40:00 PM PST
- Unknown said...
Have you tried preparing the tourtiere ahead and freezing it?
- Tue Nov 22, 02:27:00 PM PST
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
I can't remember, to tell you the truth, but pie dough freezes well and there's no reason why the filling wouldn't. You could freeze the pie dough already rolled out and put into the pie pans, but I would freeze the filling separately and thaw that out first (it will take longer to thaw than the pie crust), then add it to the crust when thawed and bake.
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Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs.
VP8 is a video compression technology that was developed by On2 Technologies, a company Google acquired in February 2010 for about US$125 million. WebM, an open-source project sponsored by Google for an open media file format, uses the open Vorbis audio codec and VP8, which Google released under a royalty-free license.
Licensing spat slows progress
In January 2011, Google said it would remove support in its Chrome browser for the H.264 codec and instead support open codecs like WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs.
MPEG LA, however, countered in February that year with a call to owners of patents essential to the VP8 video codec specification, to facilitate development of a VP8 joint patent license.
"In order to participate in the creation of, and determine licensing terms for, a joint VP8 patent license, any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the VP8 video codec specification is invited to submit them for a determination of their essentiality by MPEG LA's patent evaluators," it said.
Under the agreements announced Thursday, MPEG LA said it will discontinue its efforts to form a VP8 patent pool. The agreements grant Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders, MPEG LA said.
The agreements also allow Google the right to sub-license those techniques to any user of VP8, whether the VP8 implementation is by Google or another entity. It also provides for sub-licensing the VP8 techniques in one next-generation VPx video codec.
"This agreement is not an acknowledgment that the licensed techniques read on VP8. The purpose of this agreement is meant to provide further and stronger reassurance to implementors of VP8," said Google executive Serge Lachapelle in a post on a forum.
The financial terms of the agreements were not disclosed. A Google spokesperson said via email it "can't discuss on the commercial terms of the agreement."
"We launched the WebM Project in May 2010 with the goal of providing the web with a high-quality, open, royalty-free video codec that anyone can use, and that can inspire future innovators. Today's announcement is an important step toward that goal," wrote Matt Frost, senior business product manager for the WebM project in a blog post. The project expects to have the terms of its sublicense ready in the next few weeks.
"This is a significant milestone in Google's efforts to establish VP8 as a widely-deployed web video format," Allen Lo, Google's deputy general counsel for patents, said in a statement.
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LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey figured it was safe to talk about politics again as she stood in front of a crowd of graduates at the University of Southern California.
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Sprint on Monday confirmed that two of its popular Android devices, the Samsung Epic 4G and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, will receive software updates this week. BGR reported on Friday that the Epic 4G and Galaxy Tab would receive OTA software updates beginning on the 21st. Our report also stated that the Samsung Transform would receive an update starting today, though the device was not mentioned in Sprint's announcement. The Epic 4G, Sprint's version of the popular Samsung Galaxy S line, will finally be updated to Froyo while the Galaxy Tab Android tablet will get a minor update. Included in both updates is support for Sprint's Sprint ID services. Customers will be notified of the updates on their devices beginning today, and the new software will be delivered over the air. Hit the break for Sprint's full press release.
Samsung Epic 4G and Samsung Galaxy Tab Now Sprint ID-Enabled, Bringing Unique Mobile Experience to 4G and Tablets for First Time
Sprint ID quickly customizes device with apps, widgets, ringtones and more in a single download, based on customers' interests or favorite brands; Most popular Sprint ID pack downloads include Yahoo!, MTV Music ID and
Software update delivering Sprint ID will also include Android 2.2 (Froyo)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – March 21, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced that its award-winning Samsung Epic™ 4G* and Samsung Galaxy Tab™ will be Sprint ID-enabled, beginning March 21, allowing customers who own these devices to download a complete mobile experience, called an "ID pack" – including apps, widgets, ringtones, wallpapers, shortcuts and more – tailored to their specific interests, business needs or favorite brands in a single download.
All existing Samsung Epic 4G and Samsung Galaxy Tab owners will be prompted this week to accept the over-the-air software update in their device's notification tab. Once the update is installed, the user can find the Sprint ID icon in their Applications Menu and begin experiencing Sprint ID. All users should have access to this new software update by March 24.
The software update for Samsung Epic 4G will also include the Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system update. This update will add numerous capabilities, including Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Bluetooth dialing and allows app installation to external storage.
Customers who purchase a new Samsung Epic 4G or Samsung Galaxy Tab can access Sprint ID from their Applications Menu when they turn it on for the first time. Customers can learn more about how to use Sprint ID on their device by visiting http://www.sprint.com/epicsupport or http://www.sprint.com/galaxytabsupport.
Sprint ID launched in October 2010 on three devices – LG Optimus S™, Sanyo Zio™ and Samsung Transform™ – with 16 consumer lifestyle ID packs targeting specific interests including Home Base, Health & Fitness, Fashion & Beauty, Socially Connected, Business Pro, Golf Enthusiast, Auto Enthusiast, The Big Apple and Entertainment, as well as branded ID packs from Yahoo!, WHERE and Lo2Yo by LatCel. Since launch, brands that have deployed Sprint ID packs include MTV,
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Customers with Sprint ID-capable devices can download up to five ID packs onto their phone and easily switch back and forth between them or swap them out for new ones. Sprint customers currently are downloading an average of two ID packs per device. Sprint ID packs are free to download with an Everything Data plan.
"We are very pleased with the success of Sprint ID and excited to expand this rich mobile experience to customers with these two popular devices – Samsung Epic 4G and Samsung Galaxy Tab," said John Carney, senior vice president consumer marketing at Sprint. "Sprint ID handset sales have exceeded our expectations, which is proof that customers, especially those new to smartphones, want an easier way to get apps they'll enjoy rather than searching through thousands of apps in Android Market™. As this data about ID pack downloads shows, customers are passionate about certain brands, such as MTV, Yahoo! and
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Since Sprint ID launched, the most popular Sprint ID packs include:
- Entertainment: Features games, music, photo and celebrity news apps to keep users entertained no matter where they go. Apps include Shazam (identify any song), WikiMobile (mobile encyclopedia) and Poynt (local search app that lets users connect with businesses, restaurants and people near them).
- Yahoo!: Gives users access to their favorite Yahoo! services in one simple download including Yahoo! Finance, Mail, News, Sports, Messenger, Fantasy Football and Flickr.
- MTV Music ID: MTV Music ID allows fans to quickly download a package of apps, widgets and other content, including MTV News, MTV Photos, MTV Twitter and streaming music apps.
- Socially Connected: Delivers a customized experience for keeping users connected with friends while on the go. Features Facebook, TweetCaster and more, creating the ultimate starting point for their own multi-tasking, socially connected mobile package.
ESPNID: Instant access to scores right on the device's home screen, as well as one-tap access to sports news, fantasy teams and the user's favorite ESPNprograms, including more than 900 live events per year on ESPNMobile TV.
- WHERE: Enables people to discover the world around them by recommending local information, places and events; also helps people save money by providing location based coupons and cheapest gas stations. Allows users to find everything from weather, news and restaurant reviews to the closest coffee shop, traffic updates, movie show times and offers from local merchants.
- Fashion & Beauty: Delivers a customized experience for keeping users connected and up-to-date on the latest fashion trends, celebrity gossip, beauty and style. Apps include TrendTracker (keep track of the latest runway looks, fashion news, trend ideas); TMZ & E! Online (breaking celeb news); and ShopSavvy (scan the barcode of any product and it will search for all the best prices from local and online retailers).
- Health & Fitness: Healthy eating on the go is made easier with the Health & Fitness ID Pack. Apps include Fast Food Calorie Counter; Cardio Trainer (training partner for running, cycling, hiking, and other fitness activities); Yoga Trainer Lite; and iTriage (find closest health care providers and more).
- Home Base: A great solution for those running a modern household. Apps include Big Oven (featuring 170,000+ recipes); E! Online (get celebrity gossip fix); Pandora (listen to your favorite tunes wherever you are); Grocery Smart (create shopping lists); and Springpad (save notes, tasks or lists).
- Lo2yo Latino: Lo2Yo Latino ID brings users the best of their Latino world from news and entertainment to sports, soap operas and much more, all in Spanish.
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Sebastian Vettel goes Hollywood in Web seriesFri, 11 May 2012
Red Bull-Infiniti driver Sebastian Vettel made his small-screen debut on Friday in a new series from Infiniti
named Kung Fu Vettel: Drive of the Dragon. Vettel stars alongside actress Celina Jade in the short-action commercial/film.
This is the first in the series that eventually will include Red Bull teammate Mark Webber.
The video starts on what looks to be a date between Vettel and Jade. They drive to the old part of the Chinese city before falling into some drama involving a meek-looking local resident. Of course the Infiniti FX50 S is involved. At one point the local jumps in for safety, and later, Vettel uses the seatbelts to restrain one of the attackers, complete with a one liner about being safe.
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Tempe, AZ – The Arizona Cardinals agreed to terms with free agent defensive end Frostee Rucker on a one-year contract, the team announced on Thursday.
Rucker was released by the Cleveland Browns in February after one season in which the seven-year veteran started all 16 games and recorded 48 tackles and four sacks. He had signed a five-year contract with Cleveland last March after spending his first six NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals.
The former third-round draft choice has totaled 195 tackles, 11 sacks and one interception over 69 career games with the Bengals and Browns.


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IDOT Defends $1.3B Illiana Expressway Before Vote
Illinois' transportation secretary is defending the proposed $1.3 billion Illiana Expressway against criticism that it's a risky investment.
Ann Schneider told the The Associated Press on Tuesday that over the course of the proposed 35-year partnership with a private investor, the tollway could generate up to $500 million in profit for Illinois. She said that would be reinvested in other projects.
Besides an estimated 9,000 construction jobs, Schneider says the link between Indiana and Illinois could attract intermodal shipping facilities to the area south of Chicago in rural Will County.
A vote on Thursday by the region's planning agency will determine if the project moves ahead.
Illinois has already spent $40 million studying the project. Schneider said upfront costs could reach $300 million and it could take 18 years to break even.


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Breweries' agenda: Keep cap on laws
What does beer have to do with public policy? More than you think.
Washington, D.C. hosted the annual Craft Brewers Conference this week and brewers Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head Brewery) and Bill Covaleski (Victory Brewing Company) talked to POLITICO about Capitol Hill's role in their industry.
"We're in a highly regulated business to begin with because it involves alcohol," Covaleski said. "So I think we're all comfortable with the level of regulation. We'd like to always work on keeping a lid on it, reducing the regulatory oversight rather than growing it."
Also high on their agenda is a reduction in the federal excise tax on beer from small producers, which craft brewers says is a job-killer.
"We can add more co-workers and keep more manufacturing jobs in America," Calagione said.
The Craft Brewers Association sent 243 of its members to Capitol Hill this week to lobby against the tax.
In a previous visit, Calagione says he had a chance to try out the White House's own in-house brewery and says that "it was good," although "one step behind" his own products.
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They came on a mission of mercy, but now they're in a fight for their lives.
High schooler Will Peterson and three friends journeyed to Central America to help rebuild a school. In a poor, secluded mountain village, they won the hearts of the local people with their energy and kindness.
But in one sudden moment, everything went horribly wrong. A revolution swept the country. Now, guns and terror are everywhere--and Americans are being targeted as the first to die.
Will and his friends have got to get out fast. But streets full of killers . . .hills patrolled by armies . . . and a jungle rife with danger stand between them and the border. Their one hope of escape lies with a veteran warrior who has lost his faith and may betray them at any moment. Their one dream is to reach freedom and safety and home.
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Heart attacks occur when blood flow to a portion of the heart is severely reduced or cut off. The result is death of heart muscle cells (called an infarct).
Hardening and narrowing (atherosclerosis) of the coronary arteries that feed the heart is usually the underlying problem. In some cases, a blood clot blocks blood flow; other times, the narrowing is caused by atherosclerosis alone. Spasm of the coronary arteries may also cause a heart attack.
Elevated cholesterol, triglycerides, or homocysteine; angina pectoris; and diabetes are each associated with an increased risk of heart attack. Congestive heart failure can occur in some people from severe damage to the heart resulting from a heart attack.
The first symptom of a heart attack is usually deep aching or pressure-like chest pain that may radiate to the back, jaw, or left arm. Discomfort may be mild or severe. About 20% of heart attacks are silent (i.e., they cause no symptoms and may therefore be missed). Older people may experience shortness of breath. Nausea and vomiting may also occur. Restlessness, apprehension, pallor, and sweating are common.
Two very large studies have confirmed that smoking increases the risk of a first heart attack by more than 100% in some people.1, 2 Women were found to be at greater risk than men; "inhalers" were almost twice as susceptible as non-inhalers. Quitting smoking is critical for reversing this risk. According to one study, female ex-smokers who had not smoked for three or more years were "virtually indistinguishable" from women who had never smoked in terms of heart attack risk.3 Exposure to secondhand smoke, which increases infarct size in animals4 and impairs heart function and exercise tolerance in heart attack survivors,5 should also be avoided. For people who have already had a heart attack, quitting smoking is associated with a significant decrease in mortality.6
Routine, moderate exercise is preferred over excessive exertion for people at risk for heart attacks. Research indicates that heart attack risk rises six-fold for one hour immediately following heavy physical activity (compared to moderate or no activity), particularly among people who are sedentary.7 This risk is more than five times less in people who exercise four or more times per week.8 Most studies show that regular, moderate exercise reduces overall heart attack risk. Therefore, researchers and doctors recommend that susceptible individuals engage in an exercise program.9 Exercise recommendations for people who are at risk or who have a history of heart attack need to be custom tailored to the individual. Therefore, anyone with a heart condition or anyone over the age of 40 should consult a healthcare professional before beginning an exercise plan.
Although sexual activity can trigger a heart attack, the risk is very low and10 is no greater for people with a history of angina or heart disease. Doctors recommend regular, moderate exercise to further reduce this risk.
Obesity is associated with an increased risk for heart attack, particularly among younger people.11 One study found this relationship increased in women who also had a history of diabetes or high cholesterol.12 Doctors encourage overweight people who are at risk for heart attack to lose the extra weight.
Type A behavior is typically defined by time-conscious, impatient, and aggressive feelings and the behavior that arises from those feelings. Type A behavior has been linked to increased heart attack risk in some,13 but not all, studies.14 The link between personality and heart attack remains unclear.15 In the study with the most hopeful outcome, psychological intervention aimed at modifying type A behavior was reported to successfully change not only emotional state but also to significantly lower the risk of subsequent heart attacks.16 Some healthcare professionals recommend that people at high risk for heart attacks who also have frequent feelings of impatience, lack of time, and hostility, seek counseling as a way to feel better and potentially reduce their risk of heart disease.
Researchers suggest that negative emotional states, such as hostility, distrust, anger,17 worry,18 and stress,19 promote heart attacks. Results from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Heart Study showed that hostility was significantly associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack (in women) and increased odds of having heart surgery (in men), when a family history of heart disease was also present.20, 21 According to another study, women with a history of heart disease who report stressful relationships with their husbands or partners have almost triple the risk of suffering a heart attack, dying from heart disease, or requiring bypass surgery or angioplasty, compared with women in positive relationships.22
Following a heart attack, bed rest is often recommended. However, a review of trials concluded that bed rest may actually worsen recovery from a heart attack.23
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