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Ryan Lochte Is Tweeting Some 'Weird Tweets'
For some reason, internet public opinion has turned against Ryan Lochte, this year's Michael Phelps. It may have been his poor leg in the relay, or his loss in the 200m freestyle. Or it may have been the grill he sported on the medal podium in the race he did win. But there are a lot of reasons to love Ryan Lochte: the fact that his Twitter avatar appears to be a photo he took of a TV screen showing his face, for example. And this sequence of Tweets, a few hours after his 200m loss:
I'm going to take a ten minute Olympic break. To tweet some weird tweets to u all. Just different
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) July 30, 2012
all my problems would be second and all my worries will be gone
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) July 30, 2012
everyone is selling dreams until u can buy one
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) July 30, 2012
I nee some energy for tomorrow race. All I need is an ice cold Mountain Dew. With some gatorade dink that noenthat will kre p u up and ready
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) July 30, 2012
(He's since deleted that last one.)
In fact, Lochte's Twitter, generally, is a reason to love him:
How do u make your dreams come true? By the mirror on the wall!!
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) July 14, 2012
Can u catch lightening in a bottle and set the water on fire?
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) May 31, 2012
Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) June 17, 2012
Rocks, paper, siccor........
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) July 24, 2012
How can you not root for this guy?


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Light is the Bright IDEA for Transport
GM-backed start-up focuses on weight in bid to make roomy, efficient vans
This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge.
When exploring a European city, one of the many differences an American might notice is how people get around. Look a little closer, and the traveler might notice differences in how things get around, too. While full-sized trucks and vans commonly deliver goods in U.S. cities, a more varied fleet that includes smaller, more efficient vans does the job in Europe, as in most markets outside North America.
A company in Anderson, Indiana, called Bright Automotive, which recently scored the first investment from General Motors' new venture capital arm, aims to help steer commercial fleets toward more efficient options by decoupling size from efficiency. In other words, it lets customers have their cake (sip less fuel) and eat it too (carry more stuff). To accomplish this, Bright is developing a plug-in hybrid van called the IDEA with advanced materials that could shave thousands of pounds off the weight of conventional counterparts.
Staying in the Electric Vehicle Race
Bright vice chairman and founder John Waters caught the electric car bug in the 1990s when he was an engineer working on GM's electric EV1 model—a project that made him realize he could "be part of the solution" for smog-choked cities, he recalled in a recent interview. "That's what made it so crushing," he said, when automakers started pulling out of the electric vehicle game.
Waters, however, stayed in. He eventually joined the Rocky Mountain Institute, or RMI, a Colorado think tank (Editor's Note: Amory Lovins, chair of RMI is an advisor to National Geographic's Great Energy Challenge initiative.)
(Related: Amory Lovins, Efficiency Advocate)
Helping corporations like Alcoa and Johnson Controls craft strategies for alternative fuel vehicles, he became known among some clients for "preaching the gospel of electrification," said colleague Michael Brylawski. Today, that old electrification gospel enjoys a growing congregation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit to Capitol Hill.
According to GM Ventures President Jon Lauckner, GM hopes its $5 million investment and future collaboration with Bright will advance GM's work on plug-in hybrid technology, fuel-efficient propulsion systems, and alternative materials. At this point, said Bright CEO and Chairman Reuben Munger, the two companies have agreed to the idea of sharing parts, but they now have to go through the "engineering and legal exercise" of integrating GM parts into the IDEA design.
Having spun the company out of RMI in January 2008, Bright aims to commercialize the IDEA within a few years—if long-sought loans from the Department of Energy come through. Waters described the IDEA, unveiled in prototype last year, as a "physics-based solution," a vehicle that employs lighter, high-strength materials—including an aluminum body and carbon fiber components—as well as an aerodynamic design and other engineering tweaks to boost efficiency without shrinking cargo room.
Bright ultimately hopes to transform commercial fleets whose trucks and vans chug along U.S. roadways with an average fuel economy of 12-19 miles per gallon. The company claims the IDEA can traverse about 38 miles in its all-electric mode before it switches into a hybrid mode that gets between 36 and 38 miles per gallon.
(Related: Trucks Could Be Next New Electric Power Frontier)
GM Ventures' investment in the 30-person company comes at a time when GM is gearing up for the November launch of its Chevy Volt sedan, its first plug-in vehicle since the EV-1, and a slew of other car makers have plug-in hybrid and all-electric models in the works. At the same time, as automakers face tightening fuel economy standards and limited budgets for in-house technology development, said J.D. Power and Associates power train analyst Kevin Riddell, they are increasingly "open to many avenues," including partnerships with smaller, more nimble players.
According to Bright executives, the start-up's real challenge will be competing not in the niche market for plug-in vehicles, but rather in the broader market for commercial vans and trucks. As Brylawski, Bright's corporate strategy chief, put it, "That's the flip we're trying to pioneer."
Bright's target market is just starting to heat up in North America. Decades of relatively cheap and stable fuel costs in the United States have meant that many fleet managers have stuck with heavy-duty vans and trucks as their mainstay, Riddell explained. Higher fuel prices and taxation (as well as narrow city streets and customer preferences) in European and other global markets have helped nourish demand for more small and mid-size cargo vehicles in the commercial fleet market. These include the Renault Kangoo, Ford Transit Connect, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Citroen Berlingo, Hafei Minibus, and Fiat Fiorino.
In Bright's view, the holy grail in this race is lower cost of ownership. With every one-cent increase in the price of a gallon of gas, said Brylawski, a large fleet operator like the U.S. Postal Service can "feel pain" on the order of an $8 million hit to its bottom line. Bright needs to persuade fleet managers to consider not just the initial purchase price of the vehicle, but the money they spend on fuel over the vehicle's life. Although as a plug-in hybrid the Bright IDEA inevitably will cost more up front than traditional heavy-duty vans, the company believes it can drive down fuel costs substantially.
Not the Parts, but the Whole
Waters says Bright has been able to improve fuel efficiency in part by ignoring the auto industry's old mantra, "Lower your spec." Instead of urging its engineers to lower the cost of particular parts, Bright looks at the vehicle as a whole, with the aim of minimizing weight and drag . Ultimately these design choices could contribute to savings of up to 18 cents per mile and 1,500 gallons of fuel per year for some fleet customers. "There's no 'unobtanium' or magic materials," just a systems approach to engineering, said Brylawski.
For example, Bright has opted for a 13-kilowatt-hour pack, smaller than the battery size most car manufacturers are eyeing for their plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Increasing the size to 16 kilowatt-hours could potentially qualify the IDEA for a higher federal tax credit, Brylawski said, but it "would have a cascading effect," forcing the company to beef up the entire vehicle to handle the increased battery size and weight. The result would be a vehicle that, despite the government subsidy, would cost more to own—due to fuel costs--than the version with a smaller battery pack and more streamlined design.
Plenty of hurdles remain for Bright and its IDEA, however. Amid the current swell of entrepreneurial activity around greener vehicles, "there are going to be a lot of failures," warned Lux Research analyst Jacob Grose,.
Financing has already presented challenges for Bright, which requested $450 million from the Department of Energy in December 2008. When the economic crisis hit, Bright slowed development on the IDEA, shifting gears to selling engineering services. The company also endured a shakeup among its executives, with Munger taking the reins as CEO after Waters stepped down this spring into the role of vice chairman. Said Brylawski, "We've kept the lights on for a year and a half by building and developing hardware."
Bright says it's now getting back on track to where it left off in 2008, and has scaled back its DOE request to a lower sum it declined to disclose. If approved, the funds would help Bright complete a few more iterations of the IDEA design, launch a pilot program and set up manufacturing. According to Brylawski, Bright needs at least three years to bring the IDEA to market after the project is fully funded. "The loan doesn't necessarily make or break Bright Automotive," he explained, "but it's a key ingredient for the IDEA."
At the end of the day, Grose argued, Bright will need to win over a large fleet operator who's looking to make a splash with green marketing claims, or who's willing to seed plug-in hybrid technology on the bet that it will lead to cost savings down the road.
To Waters, Bright's IDEA is a matter of "dollars and sense," and an opportunity to make an impact nationally through small changes for even one customer, if the fleet's large enough. But for Bright, said Grose, "even if they have the best technology around, it's a long road ahead."
(Related: Even Modest Increases in MPG Can Equal Big Gas Savings)

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VS-TrEx Software
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Traffic Exchange
Types of Exchanges
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Multiple Surf Frames
Banner Linking
Way Stations
Payment Processors
Current Site List
Reseller Sites
Surf Systems
Banners and Text Ads
Contests & Rewards
Get em surfing
Get em reading
Read in detail
Get em referring
Get em to log in daily
License Agreement
What is Included
Software Pricing
Hosting Options
Purchase a license
The Market
Potential Earnings
Members Area
Your Info
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Cash Account
Member News
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About Us
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Varisearch LLC
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Major Features List
This page is a simple list of the current features of VS-TrEx 1.3.8c.
A fully integrated system
Non-Click and Manual traffic exchange (can also be set to manual-surf only)
Both surf systems have sellable 'sponsor pages', which show up at the start of each session
Both systems have optional "bookmark this site" link
Manual surf has optional "trivia" system, with questions about the page from the advertiser
Banner Exchange - get more exposure for your customers and yourself
Text Ad Exchange - this helps get customers who don't have good graphics
Mini-Banner Exchange - get your ads showing on blogs, as well
All of these systems are
already integrated
... you don't need to hire a programmer to hook them all together
Automated payment processing
We now support
6 payment processors
Pay Pal, Alert Pay, Storm Pay, and eGold are fully automated.
Money Bookers and SFI Pay require manual processing of the purchase.
Your members can buy upgrades, credits, even downline members, and get instant gratification
We now offer a
cash commission system
built right into the purchase processor
More processors, and more automated processors will be added over the Summer.
Things your members can purchase from you:
We now allow you to add or remove products and membership levels to the system
4 membership levels, which can be priced as you see fit
Membership levels can have different prices for 'subscription' versus 1-month purchase
Give better (faster) surf timers for upgraded members
Give better (more) credits for upgraded members' surfing
Change the monthly surf requirement
If you offer credit-buyback, each membership level can have a different threshold
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We can auto-generate internal users for you every so-many signups
Low maintenance: Internal Users never run out of credits, and promote what YOU want
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6 text segments, and 6 "quote boxes" can say whatever you'd like... make your site unique
Customizable 'edge' can be on left, on right, or hidden from view
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Automatically generated 'live stats' box can be put in edge, to show your members and surfing to new visitors
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Site width can be controlled between 640 and 1024 pixels wide (740-850 recommended)
There's even a "private rotator" to show different images and links in the upper-right corner. If you don't have offers you want up there, some of your members will probably pay to use the space.
Surf options
Non-Click + Manual or Manual only
2-frame standard surfing, or add a third frame on a separate timer for paid ads.
Third frame is now programmable, with a separate timer for up to 10 display items
Timer frame can be on top or bottom: your choice
All colors on the surf frames are under your control
Built-in reporting system keeps complaints in an easy-to-manage database
What you can offer your members
Automatic 'top surfer' bonus can award a percentage of credits to the top-25 surfers each week
Members can email their downline, and the downline members can opt-out if they wish
Surf-bonus available for members who allow email from their upline
Members can send credits to downline members without your intervention
Members can opt out of VS-TEN if they wish... it's build right in
Provide some credits every month on the anniversary of their joining
Keeping the users active
We give you several ways to automatically 'give out' credits (see automated offers, below)
Need more surfing, or more referrals? See the contest section, below
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You can specify a minimum number of pages a member must surf after they join, before getting their signup bonus.
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Automated offers system
Give credits for clicking on a link, to get members to check out something specific
Login reward system can automatically award random (or fixed) credit amounts for logging in once a day
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User even gets a 'my offers' page to see if they've missed any offers that are still available
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4 pages on site are completely database driven... enter your information, and it appears on the appropriate page
In the case of 'news', it drops off the list after 2 weeks, so you don't have to keep after it
Want your members to know something? Put it right on the 'login approved' screen without programming.
You can now add FAQ's to the main FAQ page through this same system.
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You decide how many levels, based on the membership level
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We've seen some people try to take advantage of the text and banner exchange systems
You have the ability to control how often they can show a 'new' ad...
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BONNEMERE, FLORENT, lay brother, Jesuit, apothecary, surgeon; b. 1600 at Bordeaux (France); d. 16 Aug. 1683 at Quebec.
Bonnemere, who arrived at Quebec 14 Aug. 1647, had joined the Jesuits in Paris 23 July 1619. He appears to have been chiefly an apothecary; however, he is known to have taken an interest also in medicine and surgery.
The practice of the apothecary's art, regulated in France from the time of Charles VII, was in the 17th century controlled by a guild just as medicine was. The apothecaries had their own college, and after an apprenticeship of seven years they had to submit a master's thesis and a pharmaceutical "masterpiece." Their principal function was that of preparing medicines as prescribed by doctors; they were obliged to deliver them to the patients at home and to observe their effect. Apothecaries made use of a considerable quantity of medicines compounded from chemical products and medicinal plants and played an important role in the care of the sick. For Louis XIV's needs alone, there were nine apothecaries in ordinary.
Apothecaries were comparatively numerous in New France. The first one was Louis Hébert, the son of an apothecary of Paris. Several of them were religious, particularly Jesuits, which is perhaps attributable to the fact that the apothecary's art was not subject to the same restrictions as medicine and surgery with respect to its practice by members of the clergy. The Sulpician Gabriel Souart, the first parish priest of Montreal, having studied medicine before entering holy orders, had to obtain papal authorization to practise his art after his arrival in the colony.
The Recollet brother, Pacifique Duplessis, was an apothecary. The Jesuits, who were in charge of a sizable store of medicines, included a fair number of apothecaries: Brothers Noël Juchereau [see Jean Juchereau de La Ferté], Gaspard Gouault, Florent Bonnemere, Jean Vitry, Jean Boussat, Jean-François Parisel, Charles and Jean-Jard Boispineau*. It is likely that Bonnemere also practised medicine and surgery. He treated the Ursuline Marie de Saint-Joseph [see Savonnières] for dropsy. According to Bonnemere, this nun appeared to him on two occasions after her death (1652), once in order to warn him of mortal danger when he was crossing the St. Lawrence on the ice.
In a notebook entitled "Miracles arrivez en leglise de Ste-Anne du petit Cap Coste de Beaupré en Canadas," assembled in 1687 by the parish priest Thomas Morel, there is reproduced a document that Bonnemere had signed, adding after his name: "practising medicine at Quebec."
The Journal des Jésuites (September 1659) contains the following two notes: "de F. Bonnemere; moderanda actio chirurgi circa foemineum sexum" (re Brother Bonnemere: he is to desist from surgical activity for the female sex). And, in the margin: "Chirurgus non curet foeminas" (As a surgeon he is not to attend women). From these two notes one has reason to think that Bonnemere was in regular surgical practice.
ASQ, Paroisses diverses, 84, p.11, and Polygraphie, XIII, 2, p.18 (Thomas Morel, "Miracles arrivez en leglise de Ste-Anne du petit Cap Coste de Beaupré en Canadas," 1687). Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation, Lettres (Richaudeau), I, 529–31. JR (Thwaites), XXXVIII, 163–65; XXXIX, 267; XLV, 115; LXXI, 147 et passim. JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain). Maude E. Abbott, History of medicine in the Province of Quebec (Montreal, 1931). Ahern, Notes pour l'histoire de la médecine, 65. Boissonnault, Histoire de la faculté de Médecine de Laval, 45. Paul Delaunay, La médecine et l'Église: contribution à l'histoire de la pratique médicale par les clercs (Paris, 1948). Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales (1ère série, 26v., Paris, 1864–82), V. J. J. Heagerty, Four centuries of medical history in Canada, and a sketch of the medical history of Newfoundland (2v., Toronto, 1928). Gabriel Nadeau, "Le dernier chirurgien du roi à Québec: Antoine Briault (1742–1760)," L'Union médicale du Canada, LXXX (1951), 705–26, 855–61, 981–98, 1106–15. Les Ursulines de Québec, I, 193f.
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Antonio Drolet, "BONNEMERE, FLORENT," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed September 29, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bonnemere_florent_1E.html.
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Installing Flash on Linux, for Newbies
Dear Adobe: Please update your instructions when you update your install packagesI had a circus a few nights ago trying to help my mom get her flash plugin updated. Not because of anything she was doing; because Adobe's out of date instructions were just plain wrong.
It gave me more insight into why people say "Linux is hard to use" ... which has little to do with Linux, and everything to do with outside forces that seem to go out of their way to make things hard for Linux users.
See, Mom's Firefox auto-updated to a new version, which started whining about her flash version being insecure and telling her to update it. It pointed her to Adobe's site, get.adobe.com/flashplayer.
She went there and was presented with a long list of options for different types of download. She's on Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu deb might have worked -- but it might not, since she's running a Firefox from Mozilla.org rather than the one from Ubuntu. (Ubuntu's Firefox on Hardy was notoriously crashy, and she has enough problems with the Mozilla version crashing.)
I told her I usually use the tarball, and install it as myself, not as root. In the past, the flash installer has always been very good about noticing I'm not root and installing to ~/.mozilla/plugins. I didn't expect problems.
So she downloaded the tarball and tried to follow their instructions, which look like this:
- Click the download link to begin installation. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.
- Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.
- Unpackage the file. A directory called install_flash_player_10_linux will be created.
- In terminal, navigate to this directory and type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer. Click Enter. The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).
- Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.
The first problem is "Unpackage the file."
Honestly, how hard is it to give people a hint that "unpackage" means
tar xf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz"?
As long as you're writing instructions anyway, why not tell people
the actual command instead of expecting them to figure it out somehow?
"In terminal, navigate to this directory" -- if you know your user
will be typing shell commands in a terminal, why not tell them to
cd rather than expecting them to figure that out from "navigate"?
(Mom figured that one out -- go Mom! -- but a lot of users wouldn't.)
Except -- OOPS! try following the instructions and you can't cd ... because it turns out the flash 10 "installer" doesn't contain a directory, or indeed an installer, at all. It's a tarball containing one file, libflashplayer.so.
Now, setting aside the question of why anyone would use tar to package a single file -- why not just make the file available for download and tell users where to put it? -- they give you no hint as to where this libflashplayer.so file is supposed to go. If you don't happen to know how Firefox sets up its plugins, you're out of luck.
Fortunately, I happen to know where the file goes.
I told Mom to
mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
and all was well. But ... sheesh! With instructions like this on
something as (unfortunately) widely needed as the Flash plugin,
how can a newbie ever expect to get anywhere?
For newbies reading this, the real instructions for installing Adobe's flash 10 tarball are:
- Download their file, which is named install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
- Open a terminal and cd to wherever you downloaded it, e.g.
cd ~/Desktop
tar xf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
- Restart firefox, make sure flash works, and (once you're sure,
at your option)
rm install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
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Stocks posted slight gains before the bell Tuesday, after four consecutive days of losses amid speculation about when the U.S. will begin to tighten monetary policy.
U.S. stock futures edged slightly higher, although there was little news to shake investors out of their recent downbeat mood.
"No new news, just the same fear," wrote Societe Generale analyst Kit Juckes in a market report.
The release Wednesday of minutes from the Federal Reserve's last monetary policy meeting will be closely watched for clues as to when the central bank will begin tapering its $85 billion a month in bond purchases.
More signals could come from the Kansas City Fed's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., later this week.
Related: Fear & Greed Index ruled by FEAR
U.S. stocks finished slightly lower Monday as bond yields crept higher, with the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 recording their first four-day losing streak of the year. Still, the indexes are both up about 15% for the year, and the Nasdaq has gained 19%.
Quarterly results came out before the opening bell from a host of companies. J.C. Penney (JCP) posted a big loss that was worse than the forecasts. Best Buy (BBY) reported a surged in profit, which the CEO attributed to aggressive cost-cutting. Home Depot (HD)announced a gain in quarterly net profit and raised its guidance for 2013.
Related: SEC bans Phil Falcone from trading for 5 years
European markets were lower in midday trading, with investors tracking losses on Wall Street and paring back risk before the Fed minutes.
Asia markets were also lower across the board on worries that possible changes to the Fed's bond-buying program will suck capital out of regional markets. Japan's Nikkei dropped 2.6%, the Hang Seng lost 2.3% and the Shanghai Composite was off 0.6%.
Shares in China Everbright Securities fell 10% as investors had their first chance to respond to restrictions placed on the broker's activities after trading glitches on Friday and Monday.
Indian stocks fell again as the rupee continued to plumb new lows against the dollar.


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A funny thing happened to Zahra Amanpour after she spent a decade helping small business owners start up and sustain their new ventures.
Their entrepreneurial spirit rubbed off on her.
"I just came to fall in love with their work and the environment entrepreneurs create and surround themselves with," Amanpour said. "There's just a great vibe around them and enthusiasm and courage."
Nearly two years ago, the Jersey City resident gathered the guts to follow their lead.
"I was working for New York City making a really good salary, getting promoted and doing well. I had a career ahead of me," she said of her position with NYC Business Solutions running economic development and educational programs for entrepreneurs.
"It was terrifying, but I decided to take the leap and walk away."
Today, Amanpour is the owner of Indiegrove, a communal workspace in Jersey City, where she continues to assist entrepreneurs while earning a living as one herself.
"I started seeing co-working becoming a wonderful solution for entrepreneurs all over New York City and around the world," she said. "I was thinking, 'We need one of these here.' "
That's because as the self-employed sector has grown, so has the demand for affordable workspace.
An evolution of the previous coffee shop-turned-home-office modus operandi of entrepreneurs, communal workspaces provide all the office essentials — including Wi-Fi, phone lines, fax, scanner and copy machines, overhead projectors and mail service — without all the distractions.
"Somebody opens the door talking loudly or a baby comes in crying or a lady is shouting an order out, and you're on the phone trying to conduct a meeting," Amanpour said of doing business in a cafe. "It has its limitations. That's why co-working has become what it's become."
For a membership fee of $225 to $1,000 per month, small business owners can rent private offices, private desks, meeting rooms or co-workspace in Indiegrove's 6,000-square-foot facility atop 121 Newark Ave., which is just a half block from the Grove Street PATH station.
"You have to invest a little each month," she said, adding that curious first-timers should check out Free Co-Working Fridays.
Indiegrove attracts a diverse body of entrepreneurs, said Amanpour, including writers, media professionals, marketing consultants, fitness consultants, lawyers, therapists and, especially, tech startups. The shared workspace has led to shared ideas and a synergy that Amanpour said benefits all members.
"A tech business needs an attorney or an accountant — well, there is one in the next office. Or you need help with marketing, so why not talk to the person in marketing in your community?" said Amanpour of her client's tendency to tap into the resources surrounding them.
Last June, Indiegrove broke even when its membership reached 50. Today, with 100 members, Amanpour is able to pay herself and consider expanding into additional space in the building.
"There's a buzz in the space every day," she said. "There's momentum. There are people walking in the door every day to find out about our community. It just feels great."
Amanpour's rapid success is a boon for Jersey City, Mayor Steven Fulop said.
"To get real job growth we need to be able to attract the creative class, which likes to work in places like that," Fulop said of Indiegrove. "It's a great story for Jersey City, and it's going to be an even better story once a number of those entrepreneurs get their businesses to the next level and can start hiring more employees."
Amanpour, 34, is working to foster that growth by incorporating her past work with entrepreneurial educational initiatives into her blog posts, networking events and workshops at Indiegrove.
After all, her success, she said, hinges on the long-term success of her clients.
"I always tell them, 'We're all in this together.' "
NAME: Indiegrove
LOCATION: Jersey City
FOUNDER: Zahra Amanpour
EMPLOYEES: One, plus one part-timer
REVENUE: Undisclosed, but Amanpour said she broke even when she got her 50th member. She now has more than 100


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Hwy Q
Heading west from Richland Center on Hwy Q.
On Hwy Q going west. Starting to get hilly already.
Hwy ZZ
On ZZ road, I stopped to catch my breath and look back at the road I had just come on.
Barn on Dayton Ridge
On Dayton Ridge Road
Dayton Ridge Road
Continuing west on Dayton Ridge Road
Dayton Ridge Road makes a turn to the southwest.
Boaz Community Park
Stopped at the park in Boaz for old times' sake. The first time I took a break here was in 1996.
Hwy 171 along Core Hollow Creek
Heading west on Hwy 171 along Core Hollow Creek
Akan Town Hall driveway
The driveway to the Akan Town Hall got busy while I was there. The township has a population of about 400, and a good percentage of the households seemed to have come for the recycling.
Akan Town Hall and Garage
Akan Town Hall and Garage
Town of Clayton
Clayton Town Hall (garage) on US Hwy 61, south of Soldiers Grove.
Picnic shelter at Beauford T. Anderson Park.
In Soldiers Grove I got a long lunch, then an even longer nap on a picnic table bench in Beauford T. Anderson Park. Mrs. Spokesrider was watching my progress on Life360, and wondered what was taking me so long.
River Road
Going south on River Road in the Kickapoo River valley.
Tainter Creek Valley
At the intersection of Johnstown Road and Hwy B in Crawford County. Tainter Creek flows through this valley.
Farm in the Tainter Creek Valley
Headed north on Hwy B in the Tainter Creek Valley
Winneshiek Marker by Dr. C. V. Porter
In the 1930s a Dr. C. V. Porter placed a series of markers about the Black Hawk War in Vernon County. These are in many places displayed side by side with more modern markers.
New Winnoshik Marker
The newer marker accompanying the old one by Dr. C.V. Porter. It's in a roadside turnout overlooking the Mississippi River, north of De Sota.
Historical Marker: Battle of Bad Axe
Battle of Bad Axe marker.


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Timothy Bradley stuns Manny Pacquiao by split decision
In a stunning decision, unbeaten Timothy Bradley (29-0) won a split-decision victory over eight-time world champion Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Two judges scored the WBO welterweight title fight 115-113 for Bradley, who appeared to be trailing all night. The third judge gave Pacquiao a 115-113 edge.
The results were loudly jeered by a near-capacity crowd in the arena, many of whom stood stunned at their seats.
It was Pacquiao's first loss in his last 16 fights, dating to March 2005.
Here is a round-by-round recap of the fight (scoring is unofficial).
Round 1: Referee Robert Byrd completes his final instructions and the fight is underway. At the bell both fighters charge to the center of the ring. Bradley throws the first punch but misses. Pacquiao throws a wild combination then, after Bradley connects, Pacquiao lands a pair of punches. Bradley might be throwing fewer punches but he's landing more. With 15 seconds left, Pacquiao catches Bradley a couple of times but Bradley wins the round, 10-9.
Round 2: Bradley continues as the aggressor but 30 seconds into the round the patient Pacquiao lands a couple of shots. At the minute mark Bradley catches him in the middle of the ring and lands some punches of his own. With 1:12 left Bradley backs Pacquiao against the ropes and gets off three shots. Then after the champ escapes, Bradley chases him down and lands a couple of more. Pacquiao again answers in the final 30 seconds but Pacquiao looks to be fighting defensively. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Fight is even, 19-19.
Round 3: Bradley lands a hard right to the midsection to start the round, then the two fighters clinch. Bradley is probing with the left, keeping the left cocked and loaded. Pacquiao is bobbing and weaving, looking for an opening. With 90 seconds left he finds it and gets off the kind of lightning-fast shot Bradley fears. That one stung the challenger. Now Pacquiao is moving forward. Pacquiao just misses on a wicked right hook but he pins Bradley against the ropes momentarily. Bradley looks stunned in the final seconds. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the fight 29-28.
Round 4: The most action in the fight so far with both men mixing it up in the center of the ring. But again Pacquiao is getting the best of it. Bradley is cautioned for a low blow, then twice clinches, forcing Byrd to step in to separate the fighters. Bradley is in trouble with 40 seconds to go in the round, and Pacquiao chases him around the ring. The challenger is all but defenseless, eventually grabbing the champion to stop the assault. Bradley appears close to going down a couple of times in the final 30 seconds. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the fight 39-37.
Round 5: Bradley has become much less aggressive and now it's Pacquiao who charges forward, slapping his gloves together. Pacquiao's confidence is growing with each passing second, it seems. Bradley fakes a couple of punches, then begins backing up again. Pacquiao is trying to cut the ring off. Bradley lands a couple of lefts but they had little effect. With 35 seconds left Pacquiao gets off a combination, missing the first punch but landing hard with the second and Bradley looks to be in trouble again. Pacquiao is all over him as the bell sounds. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9, Pacquiao leads the fight, 49-46.
Round 6: Bradley lands a soft left but it doesn't hurt Pacquiao, whose speed is overwhelming the challenger. Bradley flinches every time Pacquiao so much as feigns a punch. Pacquiao gets off a good left counterpunch. Then another straight left with 45 seconds left. Bradley is stuck in a corner, holding his gloves in front of his face as Pacquiao pounds at his body. Five, six, seven unanswered blows. This one is getting very one-sided. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the fight, 59-55.
Round 7: It took Pacquiao most of the first two rounds to get a feel for Bradley but the champion is unstoppable now. Even on the rare occasions when Bradley gets off a good punch Pacquiao answers with two of his own. And while Bradley's punches appear to have little effect, Pacquiao's apear to be taking a toll. With 70 seconds left in the round Pacquiao just misses with a devastating left. But even when that landed him against the ropes, he escapes easily. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9., and leads the fight 69-64.
Round 8: Early in the round Pacquiao hops up and down likes he's riding a bike, apparently trying to get Bradley to come after him. A minute in Bradley appears to get caught in the eye by Pacquiao's thumb and Byrd momentarily pauses the fight. Then it resumes and Bradley is once again in trouble. Bradley is just tapping at the champion –- and for good reason because whenever he winds up he leaves himself wide open to Pacquiao's vicious counterattack. Pacquiao again has him backing up at the bell. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the fight, 79-73.
Round 9: Pacquiao again blesses himself before the start of the round but perhaps it's Bradley who should be praying. Pacquiao, patient as always, finds Bradley leaning forward and drives him into the ropes with a couple of shots. Then halfway through the round, Bradley bends at the waist to avoid one punch, Pacquiao nails him with a pair of uppercuts. Bradley gets off a right to the head but he continues to leave himself open. Bradley's punches have too much sweep and not enough power -– a recipe for disaster against someone with Pacquiao's speed. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the fight, 89-82.
Round 10: Bradley's goal now appears to be just to survive. With 12 knockouts in 28 fights, he doesn't have the punching power to kncck out Pacquiao now. And as he backs around the ring he seems almost uninterested in rejoining the fight. Just inside two minutes in, however, he lands a couple of punches. And halfway into the round, while Pacquiao clinches, he gets off a shot to Pacquiao's head. With the score where it is, he needs to be way more aggressive. Bradley wins a close round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the fight, 98-92.
Round 11: Bradley is showing some fight, first slipping a couple of punches and then backing Pacquiao against the ropes. But he doesn't make much of the chance. Pacquiao keeps bouncing on the balls of his feet, as if to show Bradley he's not tired. The crowd, quiet for most of the fight, begins to shout Bradley's name. Pacquiao shuts that down with a flurry of punches that are mostly for show. For one of the few times in the fight Pacquiao appears to be flailing until he gets Bradley against a turnbuckle again. Pacquiao wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao leads the right, 108-101.
Round 12: The fighters touch gloves to start the round. Bradley needs a knockout but he's not showing sufficient urgency. A combination a minute into the round misses on both ends. Pacquiao isn't sitting on his lead, though. Like a true champion he continues to fight moving forward. He has given up on the idea of a knockout, though. Bradley hits him in the jaw early in the final minute, and that appears to wake Pacquiao up. The round ends with both fighters throwing wild punches. Bradley wins the round, 10-9. Pacquiao should win the fight, 117-111. But now it's up to the judges.
Official scoring: In a stunning decision, unbeaten Timothy Bradley won a split-decision victory over eight-time world champion Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Gardens Arena. Two judges scored the fight 115-113 for Bradley, who appeared to be trailing all night. The third judge gave Pacquiao a 115-113 edge. The results were loudly jeered by a near-capacity crowd in the arena, many of whom stood stunned at their seats.
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Amid the turmoil of this year's Arab Spring protests and concerns over Iran's nuclear program, representatives of Israel and some Arab states are in Vienna for talks about a nuclear-weapon-free Middle East.
Hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the two-day meeting on creating a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East has been in the works for years. In opening remarks, the IAEA's director general, Yukiya Amano, said there is broad international support for such a zone -- and he hoped the forum would help promote dialogue.
"But, among countries of the Middle East region and beyond, there are also long-standing differences of view related to the establishment of such a zone and the application of comprehensive agency safeguards to all nuclear activities in the region," Amano said.
The idea has precedence. Nuclear-weapon-free zones have been established in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the South Pacific and parts of Asia. But the Middle East is particularly problematic.
Israel is the only country in the region that has not joined the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- and it has neither confirmed nor denied the widespread belief that it has nuclear weapons. Israel says will join the NPT only when there is a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. And evidence appears to be mounting that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, with a new IAEA report strongly suggesting a military dimension to Tehran's nuclear activities.
But Malcolm Chalmers, research director at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, believes the Vienna meeting serves a purpose. "There is concern that unless there is vigorous arms control pressure, unless Iran is prevented in one way or another - or decides not to acquire nuclear weapons - we could have a situation in 20 years time in which there are many nuclear weapons states in the Middle East," he stated.
Chalmers says just having the various actors around the table is a plus, since some Middle Eastern nations -- like Iran - don't even recognize Israel's right to exist. But Iran said on Friday it would not attend the Vienna meeting. It's not yet clear how many Arab countries are attending.
Still, Chalmers discounts writing off the concept of a nuclear-free Middle East. This year's Arab Spring has uprooted many certainties.
"The Arab Spring - actually precisely because the outcome is so uncertain -- we really don't know where we're going to be in six months time, never mind 10 years - that things which might not have been conceivable three or four years ago, perhaps should be back on the agenda," Chambers stated.
The forum is a precursor to another international meeting in Finland next year, aimed at ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction.


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It's a holiday treat for HBO® Boxing fans. Over five consecutive nights in late December, HBO Boxing will present seven of the year's standout fights, showcasing the biggest names in the sport in riveting performances. Featured are signature wins by Floyd Mayweather, Andre Ward, Sergio Martinez and Juan Manuel Marquez plus breakout victories by rising stars Brandon Rios, Adrien Broner and Robert Guerrero.
Starting Tuesday, Dec. 25, HBO will replay seven major league showdowns from this year over five consecutive nights. Each night the action starts at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. HBO viewers will get to revisit the most memorable, most significant and most compelling bouts that were televised on the HBO service, including a couple of slugfests that are clear favorites for "Fight of the Year" honors.
The "Boxing's Best" lineup includes:
Tuesday, Dec. 25 at 11:00 p.m. — Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto
Wednesday, Dec. 26 at 11:00 p.m. — Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Sergio Martinez
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Friday, Dec. 28 at 11:00 p.m. — Antonio DeMarco vs. Adrien Broner
Friday, Dec. 28 at 11:45 p.m. — Andre Ward vs. Chad Dawson
Saturday, Dec. 29 at 11:00 p.m. — Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado
Saturday, Dec. 29 at 11:40 p.m. — Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez 4
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*Winners names are in italics.
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text: Zimmerman High School. Minnesota. Steve Silverman is a Minneapolis photographer who shoots corporate architecture as well as education architecture. He works for numerous interior designers and architects. He shoots exterior photography and is a well known in the field of interiors photographers and commercial interior photography. His architectural photography has been acclaimed by his many clients.


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An Interview with Jon Butler ... Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?Historians/History
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Mr. Butler, former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Yale University, is the author of "Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People" (Harvard University Press, 1990). This interview was conducted by HNN editor Rick Shenkman for The Learning Channel series, "Myth America," which aired several years ago.
You hear it all the time from the right wing. The United States was founded as a Christian country. What do you make of that?
Well, first of all, it wasn't. The United States wasn't founded as a Christian country. Religion played very little role in the American Revolution and it played very little role in the making of the Constitution. That's largely because the Founding Fathers were on the whole deists who had a very abstract conception of God, whose view of God was not a God who acted in the world today and manipulated events in a way that actually changed the course of human history. Their view of religion was really a view that stressed ethics and morals rather than a direct divine intervention.
And when you use the term deists, define that. What does that mean?
A deist means someone who believes in the existence of God or a God, the God who sets the world into being, lays down moral and ethical principals and then charges men and women with living lives according to those principals but does not intervene in the world on a daily basis.
Let's go through some of them. George Washington?
George Washington was a man for whom if you were to look at his writings, you would be very hard pressed to find any deep, personal involvement with religion. Washington thought religion was important for the culture and he thought religion was important for soldiers largely because he hoped it would instill good discipline, though he was often bitterly disappointed by the discipline that it did or didn't instill.
And he thought that society needed religion. But he was not a pious man himself. That is, he wasn't someone who was given to daily Bible reading. He wasn't someone who was evangelical. He simply was a believer. It's fair, perfectly fair, to describe Washington as a believer but not as someone whose daily behavior, whose political life, whose principals are so deeply infected by religion that you would have felt it if you were talking to him.
Thomas Jefferson?
Well, Jefferson's interesting because recently evangelicals, some evangelicals, have tried to make Jefferson out as an evangelical. Jefferson actually was deeply interested in the question of religion and morals and it's why Jefferson, particularly in his later years, developed a notebook of Jesus' sayings that he found morally and ethically interesting. It's now long since been published and is sometimes called, "The Jefferson Bible." But Jefferson had real trouble with the Divinity of Christ and he had real trouble with the description of various events mentioned in both the New and the Old Testament so that he was an enlightened skeptic who was profoundly interested in the figure of Christ as a human being and as an ethical teacher. But he was not religious in any modern meaning of that word or any eighteenth century meaning of that word. He wasn't a regular church goer and he never affiliated himself with a religious denomination--unlike Washington who actually did. He was an Episcopalian. Jefferson, however, was interested in morals and ethics and thought that morals and ethics were important but that's different than saying religion is important because morals and ethics can come from many sources other than religion and Jefferson knew that and understood that.
Where does he stand on Christ exactly?
Jefferson rejected the divinity of Christ, but he believed that Christ was a deeply interesting and profoundly important moral or ethical teacher and it was in Christ's moral and ethical teachings that Jefferson was particularly interested. And so that's what attracted him to the figure of Christ was the moral and ethical teachings as described in the New Testament. But he was not an evangelical and he was not a deeply pious individual.
Let's move on to Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin was even less religious than Washington and Jefferson. Franklin was an egotist. Franklin was someone who believed far more in himself than he could possibly have believed have believed in the divinity of Christ, which he didn't. He believed in such things as the transmigration of souls. That is that human, that humans came into being in another existence and he may have had occult beliefs. He was a Mason who was deeply interested in Masonic secrets and there are some signs that Franklin believed in the mysteries of Occultism though he never really wrote much about it and never really said much about it. Franklin is another writer whom you can read all you want to read in the many published volumes of Franklin's writings and read very little about religion.
Where did the conservatives come up with this idea that the Founding Fathers were so religious?
Well, when they discuss the Founding Fathers or when individuals who are interested in stressing the role of religion in the period of the American Revolution discuss this subject, they often stress several characteristics. One is that it is absolutely true that many of the second level and third levels in the American Revolution were themselves church members and some of them were deeply involved in religion themselves.
It's also true that most Protestant clergymen at the time of the American Revolution, especially toward the end of the Revolution, very eagerly backed the Revolution. So there's a great deal of formal religious support for the American Revolution and that makes it appear as though this is a Christian nation or that religion had something to do with the coming of the Revolution, the texture of the Revolution, the making of the Revolution.
But I think that many historians will argue and I think quite correctly that the Revolution was a political event. It was centered in an understanding of what politics is and by that we mean secular politics, holding power. Who has authority? Why should they have authority? It wasn't centered in religious events. It wasn't centered in miracles. It wasn't centered in church disputes. There was some difficulty with the Anglican church but it was relatively minor and as an example all one needs to do is look at the Declaration of Independence. Neither in Jefferson's beautifully written opening statement in the Declaration nor in the long list of grievances against George the Third does religion figure in any important way anywhere.And the Declaration of Independence accurately summarizes the motivations of those who were back the American Revolution.
Some of the conservatives will say, well, but it does make a reference to nature's God and isn't that a bow to religion?
It is a bow to religion but it's hardly a bow to evangelicalism. Nature's God was the deist's God. Nature's God, When evangelicals discuss religion they mean to speak of the God of the Old and the New Testament not the God of nature. The God of nature is an almost secular God and in a certain way that actually makes the point that that's a deistical understanding of religion not a specifically Christian understanding of religion. To talk about nature's God is not to talk about the God of Christ.
John Patrick Diggins has advanced the argument that not only were the Founding Fathers not particularly religious but in fact they were deeply suspicious of religion because of the role that they saw religion played in old Europe, where they saw it not as cohesive but as divisive. Do you agree?
The answer is yes and the reason is very simple. The principal Founding Fathers--Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin--were in fact deeply suspicious of a European pattern of governmental involvement in religion. They were deeply concerned about an involvement in religion because they saw government as corrupting religion. Ministers who were paid by the state and paid by the government didn't pay any attention to their parishes. They didn't care about their parishioners. They could have, they sold their parishes. They sold their jobs and brought in a hireling to do it and they wandered off to live somewhere else and they didn't need to pay attention to their parishioners because the parishioners weren't paying them. The state was paying them.
In addition, it corrupts the state. That is, it brings into government elements of politics and elements of religion that are less than desirable. The most important being coercion. When government is involved with religion in a positive way, the history that these men saw was a history of coercion and a history of coercion meant a history of physical coercion and it meant ultimately warfare. Most of the wars from 1300 to 1800 had been religious wars and the wars that these men knew about in particular were the wars of religion that were fought over the Reformation in which Catholics and Protestants slaughtered each other, stuffed Bibles into the slit stomachs of dead soldiers so that they would eat, literally eat, their words, eat the words of an alien Bible and die with those words in their stomachs. This was the world of government involvement with religion that these men knew and a world they wanted to reject.
To create the United States meant to create a new nation free from those old attachments and that's what they created in 1776 and that's what they perfected in 1789 with the coming of the federal government. And thus it's not an accident that the First Amendment deals with religion. It doesn't just deal with Christianity. It deals with religion with a small "r" meaning all things religious.
What about the conservatives' belief that we need to go back to the religion of the Founding Fathers?
If we went back to the religion of the Founding Fathers we would go back to deism. If we picked up modern religion, it's not the religion of the Founding Fathers. Indeed, we are probably more religious than the society that created the American Revolution. There are a number of ways to think about that. Sixty percent of Americans belong to churches today , 20 percent belonged in 1776. And if we count slaves, for example, it probably reduces the figure to 10 percent of the society that belonged to any kind of religious organization.
Modern Americans probably know more about religious doctrine in general, Christianity, Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, than most Americans did in 1776. I would argue that America in the 1990s is a far more deeply religious society, whose politics is more driven by religion, than it was in 1776. So those who want to go back would be going back to a much more profoundly secular society.
What do you make of the politicians who take the opposite point of view. It must make you go crazy.
It doesn't make me go crazy. It makes me feel sad because it's inaccurate. It's not a historically accurate view of American society. It's a very useful view because many modern men and women are driven by a jeremiad, that is jeremiad lamenting the conditions in the wilderness. We tend to feel bad when we hear that we are not as religious as our fathers or our grandfathers or our great grandfathers and that spurs many of us on to greater religious activity. Unfortunately in this case the jeremiad simply isn't true. And I don't think that those who insist it is true would really want to go back to the kind of society that existed on thee eve of the American Revolution.
Americans do become religious in the nineteenth century, don't they? That's what you say in your book.
The American Revolution created the basis for new uses of religion in a new society and that was conveyed in the lesson taught by the First Amendment. If government was no longer going to be supporting religion how was religion going to support itself? It would have to support itself by its own means. Through its own measures. It would have to generate its measures. And this is what every one of the churches began to do. As soon as religion dropped out of the state and the state dropped out of religion, the churches began fending for themselves. And they discovered that in fending for themselves that their contributions were going up, they were producing more newspapers, more tracts, they were beginning to circulate those tracts, they created a national religious economy long before there was a secular economy. You could trade more actively in religious goods than you could in other kinds in the United States in 1805, 1810.
What happened in the United States is that the churches actually benefited from this separation of church and state that was dictated by the First Amendment. In addition to which America became kind of a spiritual hothouse in the nineteenth century. Not only did the quantity off religion go up but so did the proliferation of doctrine. There became new religions--the Mormons, the spiritualists--all created in the United States. New religious groups that no one had ever heard of before, that had never existed anywhere else in western society than in the United States.
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Paul Shepherd - 3/8/2010
First of all, this whole article is chock full of non-factual, liberal agenda propaganda. The first amemdmendment does not say anything about the separation of church and state...The term "Separation of Church and State" is derived from a letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
In the United States the "Separation of Church and State" is generally discussed as a political and legal principle derived from the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . ." The concept of separation is commonly credited to the combination of the two clauses: the establishment clause, generally interpreted as preventing the government from establishing a national religion, providing tax money in support of religion, or otherwise favoring any single religion or religion generally; and the free exercise clause, ensuring that private religious practices are not restricted by the government. The effect of prohibiting direct connections between religious and governmental institutions while protecting private religious freedom and autonomy has been termed the "separation of church and state."
Jennifer Medina - 3/14/2008
The word "apostle" does not just have biblical meaning. It also means: a pioneer of any reform movement. As it is known to us, it appears to be a biblical reference but that is not it's only use.
It is clear, religion was important to the people of early America as it is to people in America today. There is loads of evidence the founding fathers held beliefs in God. However, that does not mean they felt it would be best to converge the two. Thomas Jefferson was pretty clear on his belief of keeping them separate, as you said, to protect religious freedom but also to keep politics from being used as a wepaon for religious persecution.
It seems to me, people get so wrapped up in arguing about whether or not America was founded as a Christian nation the facts get completely ignored.
FACT: the existence of God has yet to be proven. FACT: historians can't even agree on the existence of Jesus. FACT: I am not even digging into history here just using current events: current governments (such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan etc.) that have a constitution or set of laws based strictly on one particular religious belief proves disasterous in every circumstance. People get extremely mistreated in countries such as these and it would be no different if it took place in America. In fact, there is an entire movement (religious right) that are fighting very hard to break down the wall of separation and even worse a group refered to as Christian Reconstructionist that want the constitution to be the Old Testament. Do you think this is a good idea?
You say " 'Separation of Church and State' has become a veil for the real agenda of "Segregation" - segregation of Church people and Christian principles from State policy." I disagree. I see it the other way around. If the American government was to embrace one particular religious view, to run a country with a population over 300 million people, it would be segragating beleivers in that one particular belief (which may or may not be your own) from non-believers resulting in persecution of the latter. It happenes everytime without fail.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." It is a great quote, and from experience I would say very true. I am not saying that Thomas Jefferson was or wasn't Christian but using a quote that originated with Jesus does not make him anymore Christian than it does make me Christian for quoting "Thou shalt not kill". It is just good advice.
James Renwick Manship - 10/18/2007
So many anti-Christian academics (those who consider it "un-scholarly" to acknowledge the predominant role of Christian thought in the founding of this Constitution "in the year of our Lord..." or even "Church AND State" with the words "ordain and establish" or more modern, our One Nation Under God) dismiss the obvious as irrelevant, or meaning other than what is written. Is such "intellectual honesty"?
Let us recall that Franklin attended Christ Church in Philadelphia. Who was Franklin, the independent minded man trying to impress? Christ maybe? Franklin alluded to a Bible passage when he implored the assembled delegates at the Constitutional Convention to begin business each day with prayer as had been done before the Declaration of Independence was written over a decade before.
And at the end of the Constitutional Convention, Franklin answered a woman's question with "A republic, madam, if you can keep it." A republic, not a democracy.
Arguably the clearest example of a democracy in action in the history of man is in Jerusalem, when the government servant abrogated his duty, abandoned the rule of law, and allowed the "demos", the rabble, the mob to rule, and incited by "rabble rousers" the mob ruled to convict an innocent man, and put him to death by crucifixion.
Yes, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is the clearest example of "democracy" in action in the History of Man.
Remember that John Adams labeled "democracy" as a "mob-ocracy".
Also remember that Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, described George Washington as the "World's Apostle of Liberty". Not "champion" of Liberty, but "Apostle of Liberty", clearly a Biblical reference.
A decade ago many modern academics labeled Washington as a "Deist". Go back a century and more and you find most scholars clear in their knowledge of Washington's Christian life.
The past 18 months have seen 6 books written on the Christian faith of George Washington. Most honest academics now acknowledge Washington was a devout Christian. The Novak's excellent book is one of those books. Peter Lillback yet another tour de force.
Jefferson wrote to Benjamin Rush to say in part, "My opinions are very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing ..." and in the same letter wrote, "I am a Christian...".
Many anti-Christians and even denomination-centric Christians have embraced the non-Christian theory of Thomas Jefferson and so assume or presume to deny Jefferson's words or that Jefferson meant what he wrote.
The oft-cited, often maligned, and mostly misunderstood "Jefferson Bible" was in fact a "Bible Study" done IN THE WHITE HOUSE when PRESIDENT -- so much for misrepresented "separation of church and state" position assigned to President Jefferson whose purpose for preparing a Gospel Tract from the "Great White Chief" (president) was to aid Christian Missionaries evangelize Indians to the Christian Faith. He personally funded missionaries, and when President used public funds to fund Christian missionaries to the Indians.
If you would like to see the title page of that "Gospel Tract" prepared by President Thomas Jefferson while in the White House, go to the link:
Unitarian Forrest Church and Beacon Press of Boston present only one of four translations of a later version of a so-called "Jefferson Bible". See the front page of that later version at the same link. Jefferson studied the words of Jesus in four languages so to have a more clear understanding of the fine nuances of faith in Jesus, which is more than most scholars or pastors have done.
The Jefferson Bible is basically a "Red Letter" New Testament -- just the words of Jesus -- in part because Jefferson wrote "If the Gospel had been taught as pure as it came from His lips, the whole civilized world would now be Christian..."
Many say Thomas Jefferson did not like or believe in the Miracles or the Virgin Birth so he cut out all reference to them in his "Jefferson Bible" (which others, not TJ, gave it that title).
The truth is that Jesus NEVER described the Virgin Birth and NEVER described the Miracles. In only one verse in Saint John, Jesus listed the Miracles, and Jefferson included that verse, so Jefferson did not deny or delete the Miracles.
Thomas Jefferson's manservant, Isaac Jefferson was interviewed for a personal recollections biography as a free black blacksmith in Petersburg, Virginia in a.d. 1845 and he said TJ read the words of Jesus every day of his life.
How many Christian preachers, priests, or pastors can make the same claim of daily immersion into the words of Jesus as former slave Isaac Jefferson said of Thomas Jefferson?
The "Separation of Church and State" has become a veil for the real agenda of "Segregation" - segregation of Church people and Christian principles from State policy. In the same way that segregation of blacks out of participation in the civic policy process is illegal, so should be the current process of trying to shame Christians into a "self-segregation" from participation in government policy making processes.
The Jefferson phrase used in a letter to the Danbury Baptists was in reference to the Baptist leader Roger Williams writings about Separation of the Church from intermeddling by the State to protect the "garden of the Church from the wilderness of the world...", not the other way around as in these modern times is interpreted. It is a biological reference, and cell walls are semi-permeable membranes, they allow one way transfer, but block transfer in the other direction so to protect the life inside the cell walls. That is the meaning of Wall of Separation.
Some say Thomas Jefferson may have been a Church Vestryman early in his life, but in later years abandoned his Christian faith. Yet three years before he died, in a.d. 1823, Thomas Jefferson selected the motto for the University of Virginia , one of three accomplishments in his life for which he prayed to be remembered ~~
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." -- the words of Jesus Christ.
Tim Matthewson - 10/10/2007
In the 1790s, President John Adams signed a treaty with the Barbary regime of Tripoli, which had been ratified by the Senate. The treaty itself stated flatly that the "government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." (Quoted in Dershowitz, Blasphemy, p. 57).
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
The confusion or sloppy reading is evidently yours. I did not say "America was founded" (in the 17th or any other century). "America" was of course a name applied by a 15th century mapmaker to what Columbus thought was part of India. The Declaration of Independence of the United States was adopted on July 2, 1776. Maybe this is the ultimate source of the confusion underlying the article as well: America as a geographical label versus America as a conceptual model versus America as a sovereign political entity.
If Sam Adams really was the "last Puritan", that would be great news for high school boys in America, who would probably rather watch a malfunctioning Janet Jackson than read Hawthorn's "Scarlet Letter". Somehow I doubt that any such curriculum change is in the "offing".
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
The Puritan settlers who "founded" colonies in 17th century New England were indeed "deeply religious" in most cases. Confusing them with the framers of the late 18th century U.S. constitution is evidently a frequent mistake curiously unaddressed here.
Dave Livingston - 1/7/2005
Ben is correct on at least two points: that 1)"Many American colonists were rejecting the state religion of England" & that 2) "Europe was hardly a free society in the 1500s."
The first point is illustrated, in addition to the usual examples, by the colonization of Maryland, a Catholic colony,indeed the only one of the 13 established by Catholics.
In response to the baic query, "Was America founded as a Christian nation" in lieu of the dusty tomes most folks here like to dip into, I offer one even dustier, the history of our branch of the Scots Lowland House of Livingston. As mentioned a time or two before in other threads, our branch of the family was established on this of the Pond by a younger son, John George, age 19, who came ashore in 1732 at Martha's Vineyard.
In a matter of less than six months John George, a heck of a lot faster worker than I, had traveled to Penna., met, wooed & married a gal of a family long established over here.
Evidently John George was Protestant of one sort or another, but his oldest son, Adam, the next in the line of our branch over here, then in the colony of Va., to the recalled even today intense chagrin of family & neighbors, converted to Catholicism.
How many, if any generations remained Catholic isn't available in the material accessable to me, but once in Tennessee we evidently sgain became Protestant of one variety or another.
Subsequent to the War Between the States our line found itself in southeastern Kansas, Quaker Valley, Kansas & somewhere along the line, probably beginning with my father's grandmother (whose first husband, Clinton Livingston, was one of four brothers KIA fighting for the South. One more brother too young to serve survived the war), circa 1866, we became Quaker ourselves. Indeed, the Friends Church in which my faternal grandmother's funeral was held yet exists.
The point of the above is that yes, the people of this land, the European colonists, have been Christian from the beginning, from long before the Revolution.
Nathaniel Brian Bates - 12/31/2004
Unfortunately, the Nations of the world reject Divine Law, which is found in the Tanakh ("Old Testament"). America should be different, due to the "Old Testament" nature of her Christianity, but she is not.
bill olbrich - 12/22/2004
Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! What is to become of us?
Mr. Shenkman uses "principal" when he means "principle" three times in his bulletin from the front. How can people of Good Will and Good Intentions successfully battle the Neo-Conservatives/Neo-Confederates ("Neocons/Neocons") if they get slip-shod with their language?
Ben H. Severance - 12/22/2004
Good formulation, Oscar; people are rarely either/or.
Ben H. Severance - 12/22/2004
Good comments, Dave. And forgive my oversight of the Catholic community in Maryland. But then, it isn't surprising that you caught me on that one.
Ben H. Severance - 12/22/2004
On the one hand, the Religious Right would have Americans believe that the Founding Father generation was a time of Bible-thumping. On the other hand, the secular humanists (such as Butler?) would have Americans believe that Christianity was an oddity outside of the mainstream of the political nation in the late 1700s. I think both of these viewpoints reflect current attitudes more than they depict past reality.
Oscar Chamberlain offers an instructive formulation in a separate comment thread.
Oscar Chamberlain - 12/21/2004
Were a large majority of Americans Christian at the time of the Revolution? Yes.
Does that mean that majority wanted to make this a nation that recognized Christianity as The Central Religion? Well, we know one thing, they didn't. Some states did so for a time, but the nation did not.
Did their versions of Christianity resemble modern evangelical Christianity? To a point, but the context was very different. As best as I can tell, few perceived a necessary conflict between faith and the observation and experimentation of the scientific revolution. To go back a generation or two, Cotton Mather could preside at Salem and champion smallpox vaccination.
To what extent were Christianity and Deism mutually exclusive. I suspect for many people, Christian and Deist alike, the answer was no. Just as today, when many evangelistic Christians--including perhaps President Bush--can accord respect to other faiths despite the dogma of their beliefs, so many people in the 1770s could see and appreciate aspects of the Deist perspective even while maintaining themselves to be Christian.
Some ministers perceived a dichotomy; so did a few deists. So do some academics and ministers today. I suspect many folk lived in the gap of the dichotomy quite comfortably.
Ben H. Severance - 12/21/2004
Shenkman might also have asked Butler what he thought about the "First Great Awakening." Historians take for granted the influence of the Enlightenment, but often overlook the religious revivalism of the early and mid-1700s. Many American colonists were rejecting the state religion of England and embracing such Christian denominations as Methodism, Baptism, and Presbyterianism.
As for the Puritans, historians generally scorn their authoritarian style of social order but forget the democratizing effect of Puritan political organization. Decision-making was a collective effort, albeit for the "Saints" only (just as the U.S.A. was for white men only until the 13th and 19th Amendments). Moreover, each Puritan settlement increasingly exercised local autonomy viz. Boston (something akin to states rights).
I also found Butler's comments regarding religious pluralism in American highly misleading. He contends that the political freedom won in the Revolution opened the door to religious expansion (e.g., Mormans, etc...). There is validity in this argument, but a secularized and democratized political environment is not an indispensable factor. Butler forgets, or perhaps omits, to point out that just as many new religions and denominations sprouted in the wake of Luther's 95 Theses; and Europe was hardly a free society in the 1500s.
Finally, don't think very many Americans, Founding Fathers or otherwise, had really internalized Deism as a belief system. Jefferson and Franklin and Paine, yes, but most Americans were either devoted Christians or nominal Christians. I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I do believe in the Triune God. On this point, I think Butler's comments regarding Washington's christianity was closer to mark for most Americans throughout the nation's history.
Don Adams - 12/20/2004
You've managed to confuse yourself here. America was not founded in the 17th century by Puritan settlers. Some of the land which later became America was colonized by 17th century Puritans, but that is a different matter. America itself was founded on -- come on, say it with me -- July 4th, 1776. Its constitution was ratified in 1787. By my calendar, both of those dates took place in the 18th century. As for the Puritans, Sam Adams is sometimes referred to as "the last Puritan," but that's about as far as it goes for them.
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One atom equals one bit: According to this design principle, we would like to construct magnetic data memories in the future. Presently, a compound of several million atoms is needed to stabilize a magnetic bit in a way that hard disk data are secure for several years.
However, researchers from KIT have just made a big step towards a single-atom bit: They fixed a single atom on a surface such that the magnetic spin remained stable for ten minutes. Their report is published in the current issue of the Nature magazine (DOI 10.1038/nature12759).
"Often, a single atom fixed to a substrate is so sensitive that its magnetic orientation is stable for fractions of a microsecond (200 nanoseconds) only," Wulf Wulfhekel from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) explains. Together with colleagues from Halle, he has now succeeded in extending this period by a factor of about a billion to several minutes. "This does not only open up the possibility of designing more compact computer memories, but could also be the basis for the setup of quantum computers," Wulfhekel says. Quantum computers are based on quantum physics properties of atomic systems. In theory at least, their speed might exceed that of classical computers by several factors.
In their experiment, the researchers placed a single holmium atom onto a platinum substrate. At temperatures close to absolute zero, i.e. at about 1 degree Kelvin, they measured the magnetic orientation of the atom using the fine tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. The magnetic spin changed after about 10 minutes only. "Hence, the magnetic spin of the system is stable for a period that is about a billion times longer than that of comparable atomic systems," Wulfhekel emphasizes. For the experiment, a novel scanning tunneling microscope of KIT was applied. Thanks to its special cooling system for the temperature range close to absolute zero, it is nearly vibration-free and allows for long measurement times.
"To stabilize the magnetic moment for longer periods of time, we suppressed the impact of the surroundings on the atom," Arthur Ernst from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics explains. He performed theoretical calculations for the experiment. Normally, the electrons of the substrate and of the atom interact quantum-mechanically and destabilize the spin of the atom within microseconds or even faster. When using holmium and platinum at low temperatures, disturbing interactions are excluded due to the symmetry properties of the quantum system. "In principle, holmium and platinum are invisible to each other as far as spin scattering is concerned," Ernst says. Now, the holmium spin might be adjusted and information might be written by means of external magnetic fields. This would be the prerequisite for the development of compact data memories or quantum computers.


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Machine-learning for immunotherapy
A prestigious EU-grant will advance OncoImmunity's machine-learning approach to develop personalized cancer immunotherapy.
The bioinformatics company OncoImmunity AS is empowering cancer immunotherapy with artificial intelligence. They use innovative software solutions to guide the discovery of neoantigen-based personalized immunotherapies and biomarkers. What does this really mean?
It means that the software they have developed helps to identify neoantigens, also known as immunogenic mutations, in a patient's cancer cells. Cancer cells deceive the immune system by looking like healthy cells. But they still express cancer-specific markers, known as neoantigens. (See facts box for explanation.)
Enables personalized medicine
The interesting part about neoanitgens, is that every patient's tumor expresses a unique combination. This enables truly personalized medicine to be applied, if the correct neoantigens are selected from the thousands of possible candidates in the genome of a tumor. Researchers using this technology can now solve this "needle in the haystack" challenge by analyzing a tumor genome to figure out the right cocktail of neoantigens, for each individual patient, and design a specific vaccine or cell therapy uniquely designed just for them.
Such personalzed immunotherapy can for instance boost the immune system's response by making the immune system better able to recognize and target the patient's unique cancer cells.
Faster bespoke treatment
OncoImmunity's flagship software, the ImmuneProfiler,is a unique machine learning solution that makes it easier to instantaneously see and accurately select which neoantigens will be responsive in each patient.
It thereby helps biotech companies design neoantigen-based personalized cancer vaccines and cell therapies and enables bespoke treatments to be developed faster. Additionally, the technology allows clinical researchers to select which patients will likely respond to the wide range of cancer immunotherapies currently under development in the field.
In that sense, the OncoImmunity-approach to cancer treatment is exactly in line with Oslo Cancer Cluster's main goal: to speed up the development of new cancer treatments for the benefit of cancer patients.
Prestigious EU-grant
Horizon 2020's SME Instrument is a grant that is tailored for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). It targets innovative businesses with international ambitions — such as OncoImmunity.
The SME Instrument has two application phases. Phase one awards the winning company 50 000 Euros based on an innovative project idea. Phase two is the actual implementation of the main project. In this phase, the applicant may receive between 1 and 2,5 million Euros.
Oncoimmunity won the phase one project last year. Then, the founders of the bioinformatics company were happy about the opportunity to refine and optimize their machine-learning framework. Their goal has always been to facilitate personalized cancer vaccine design.
Fantastic funding
Now, they have won a considerably larger grant of 2,2 Million Euros that they are going to use to fund a project titled Machine-learning Engine for the Design of personalized Vaccines in Cancer (MEDIVAC).
The SME Instrument grant provides OncoImmunity the opportunity to further customise their machine-learning framework, called the ImmuneProfiler,for specific vaccine platforms, facilitating the design of safer and more efficacious personalised cancer vaccines.
— We applied for the SME instrument grant as it represents a fantastic funding vehicle for cutting edge, innovative projects with huge commercial potential. The call matched our ambition to position OncoImmunity as the leading supplier of neoantigen identification software in the personalised cancer vaccine market, says Dr. Richard Stratford, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of OncoImmunity.
— This opportunity will also help us establish the requisite quality assurance systems, certifications, and clinical validation with our partners, to get our software approved as a medical device in both the EU and US, says Dr. Trevor Clancy, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder of OncoImmunity.
SMEs can apply
The SME Instrument is looking for high growth- and highly innovative SMEs with global ambitions. They are developing innovative technologies that have the potential to disrupt the established value networks and existing markets.
Companies applying for the SME Instrument must meet the requirements set by the programme. Please see the SME Instrument website for more information in English or the SME Instrument webpage of Innovation Norway for more information in Norwegian.
Curious about which companies have received the SME Instrument so far? Have look at this database with an overview of all the grant receiving companies in Europe.
Want to know which Norwegian companies received grants from The European Unions research programme Horizon2020 in 2018? Read this article from Innovation Norway (in Norwegian).
Oslo Cancer Cluster supports members via the EU Advisor Program in collaboration with Innovayt, making them aware of relevant EU- and H2020 funding opportunities and helping them to identify the right calls for their development phase and goals. Oslo Cancer Cluster also assists with partner searches using national and international networks and provides direct support during the grant writing and submission process.


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Afternoon Delight: Starving Families--The Wiggle that Got Away
Approximately 7 years ago, former NBA all-star headcase Latrell Sprewell uttered one of the dumbest things ever said by an athlete/celebrity. In regards to a contract negotiation with Minnesota where he was getting offered 14.6 million Sprewell said:
"Why would I want to help them win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed. Anything could happen."
Present Day:
Sprewell has blown all of his NBA earnings on Lamborghini's and spinning rims and was spotted at a local job fair with 2 former Celtics, Wally 'Zoolander' Szczerbiak and the one they call Sheed. Also making an appearance was Delonte West, who was recently fired from Home Depot for pulling a Gilbert Arenas (bringing guns to work), and Antoine Walker who is not pictured here.
The Incident:
Toine rushes out of the fair after realizing that Caesar's Palace, Red Rock Resort and Planet Hollywood were all there looking for prospective employees. In effort to get in the good graces of the companies, Sprewell jumps out of the line, dashes after Toine and tackles him from behind. Sprewell begins choking Toine much to the delight of the 3 Las Vegas casinos. Not even Toine's wiggle can escape the death grip of a man trying to feed his family. Sheed in a pit of rage kept yelling 'Toine don't lie! Toine don't lie!' However luckily for Toine, D West started rapping in line, drawing everyone's attention and energy to boo him. The only one not phased by D West's rapping was Sprewell who began clenching even harder around Toine's neck. Then a miracle happened. Wally took off his baller ass shades and gazed over in the direction of the angry, frustrated Sprewell.......
Sprewell was powerless against it and was forced to let go of Toine...as Toine wiggled into the night....and shot up a ridiculously long off-balanced 3...which Sheed later remarked 'GOOD SHOT!'


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Mozilla.org's SeaMonkey Project was my first exposure to Web browsing when I started dabbling in the Linux OS. I have since played around with other browsers, including my workhorse favorite, Firefox, by the Mozilla folks. But I keep coming back to SeaMonkey for its simplicity and charm.
SeaMonkey's latest version, 2.0.14, comes much closer to being a clone of the latest Firefox rendition. It has many of the features that have become synonymous with Web browsing. For example, SeaMonkey offers tabbed browsing, interface customization, user profiles and an amply stocked tools menu.
The SeaMonkey community keeps growing more add-on functionality. Although the collection is not yet nearly as prolific as what Firefox provides, several of my favorite add-ons are exclusive to SeaMonkey. Equally nice is the ability to run some of the Firefox add-ons in SeaMonkey as well.
What I like the most about the SeaMonkey browser — and what keeps me coming back to it — is its cleaner look and feel. In particular, I rarely keep a sidebar open in a Web browser. But SeaMonkey's sidebar has such an efficient flow to it that I actually do not mind having it share some screen real estate with a Web site's page display.
Cloning Around
With all these nice features available in SeaMonkey, why am I willing to settle for a near clone of Firefox? That is a fair question. The answer, however, may not be satisfactory.
For me, using multiple browsers is part of my work style. On all of my computers, I switch among SeaMonkey, Firefox and Google Chrome. But of these three, SeaMonkey is the one browser that requires almost no fussing.
I have Firefox preset to load always-there websites and online email services that consume regular repeat performances throughout my workday. Having a second Web browser open lets me move around the Web without other distractions. I use the same approach with the two automobiles in my driveway — an SUV for hauling and a sporty model for touring.
I tend to keep Firefox loaded with so many add-ons and open tabs that I can feel it slow down. By comparison, SeaMonkey seems to load much faster and zips in and out of websites with a lot less effort.
Under the Hood
SeaMonkey now uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4, according to Mozilla.org. This makes SeaMonkey's user profiles, add-ons and user interface elements almost like its kindred brother.
The framework is so similar that importing legacy profiles and Thunderbird profiles — the e-mail companion — is an automatic action. SeaMonkey's functionality makes its new Add-on Manager tool a snap to use for installing, updating, disabling and removing extensions, themes and plugins.
Another clue to SeaMonkey's clone appeal to Firefox is the addition of a Session Restore feature. With this new crash recovery tool built in, all browser windows and tabs are automatically restored. That includes data you entered in online forms that you did not yet file or save on the web site.
More Good Stuff
With SeaMonkey I can restore previous browser windows and tabs from their last open session. I can also restore closed tabs (aka "Undo Close Window") when starting SeaMonkey. These two features were not available in previous versions of SeaMonkey. Being able to do these things now removes one of the barriers I felt in the past to continuing to use this Web browser.
As I said earlier, I keep finding reasons to come back to SeaMonkey. This latest version is a drastic retooling. Even though its innards are revved up with the Firefox engines, SeaMonkey still has its own personality and is not the Firefox browser.
For example, Password Manager is new and improved. So searching is easier. Its notification bars replace modal dialogs to make remembering logins more efficient. Similarly, Download Manager has a makeover. Part of that fix-up is the ability to resume interrupted downloads.
SeaMonkey Security
I tend to be anal when it comes to privacy options. The Preferences panel makes looking over my shoulder when I surf the Web so much easier. For instance, I can set conditions for how much and how long to remember browsing history. Ditto for Location Bar History and the Form and Search History caches.
Two easily accessible buttons let me clear the history and clear location bar records. The Privacy and Security options are even more enticing. On that Preferences tab I can instantly clear private data while still in a browsing session. Plus, a checkable option will always clear my private data when I close SeaMonkey.
I can further sharpen my security paranoia by selecting/deselecting a list of data areas for clearing. This list includes download history, saved forms, the browser's cache, cookies, offline website data, saved passwords and authenticated sessions.
Better Cookies and Rendering
SeaMonkey makes it very easy to see which websites are watching me watching them. For example, the redesigned Cookie Manager makes it simple to search for cookies by website and cookie name.
The rendering features round out with better performance for HTML5 and audio/video elements, downloadable fonts and JIT-compiled JavaScript. This is a mirror listing of improvements found in Firefox since version 3.5.
Bottom Line
SeaMonkey is a good browser choice and solid alternative to the more popular and traditional Linux-based Web browsers. It will seem like home if you come to it from Firefox.
If you are an enamored add-on user, the more limited extensions inventory may disappoint you. But its configurability can make up for this. All in all, SeaMonkey is a full-featured Web browser with options not available with most other choices.