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FCC's Julius Genachowski challenges service providers and local communities to build such networks, saying communities would turn themselves into innovation hubs that would create valuable jobs.
The Federal Communications Commission's chairman, Julius Genachowski, wants to see gigabit speed broadband services in all 50 states by 2015.
At a meeting of U.S. mayors in Washington, D.C., today, Genachowski called on municipal leaders and service providers to deploy gigabit speed broadband in at least one community in each of the 50 states in the next two to three years. Genachowski said that by participating in the "Gigabit City Challenge" communities would turn themselves into innovation hubs that would create valuable jobs for its citizens.
Genachowski has been a big proponent of faster broadband speeds for a long time. In the National Broadband Plan the FCC presented to Congress in 2010, he set a goal of getting 100Mbps broadband to 100 million households by 2020. Now the chairman has upped the ante with his challenge to get speeds to 1 gigabit per second.
Delivering broadband at 1Gbps is nothing to sneeze at. That's 100 times faster than today's average Internet connection. And building such networks can be expensive since they require investments in infrastructure. But Genachowski said that those investments will be well worth the expense.
"American economic history teaches a clear lesson about infrastructure," he said in a statement. "If we build it, innovation will come. The U.S. needs a critical mass of gigabit communities nationwide so that innovators can develop next-generation applications and services that will drive economic growth and global competitiveness."
Only 42 communities across 14 states already have ultra-high-speed broadband, according to a report the FCC cited. Google is one company that has been pushing the idea of gigabit networks. Last year it launched a gigabit broadband network in parts of Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kansas. And the city is already seeing strong demand for the service, the FCC said.
In some communities the push for gigabit broadband services has come from local municipalities and utilities that have installed fiber directly to people's homes. Cities such as Lafayette, La., and Chattanooga, Tenn., have been at the forefront of the municipal fiber movement.
The FCC says that the fiber network deployed to 170,000 homes in Chattanooga helped lure big companies like Volkswagen and Amazon to the community, which has created more than 3,700 new jobs over the past three years in Chattanooga.
A private/public partnership program called The Gig.U was started a couple of years ago to help bring communities with universities together with broadband service providers to create high-speed networks in those communities. The project has already helped bring $200 million in private investment to build ultra-high-speed hubs in communities of many leading research universities. One such project currently being developed is a joint venture between the University of Washington and a private Internet service provider to deliver gigabit service to a dozen area neighborhoods in Seattle.
The FCC hopes the Gigabit City Challenge will further these types of efforts. The FCC hasn't committed any funds to the "Gigabit Challenge," but the agency said it will help communities create an online clearinghouse of best practices to help educate local officials and local service providers on the most cost-effective ways to increase broadband deployments.
The agency will also hold workshops on gigabit communities to educate the public about the benefits of these networks and to bring community leaders together to evaluate barriers, increase incentives, and lower the costs of speeding gigabit network deployment.
Mayors such as San Francisco's Edwin Lee said he fully supports the FCC's efforts. And he hopes the support from the federal government will help bring faster speed broadband to his city.
"Expanding high-speed, broadband Internet is a goal that directly supports San Francisco's economic development strategy," he said in a statement. "The innovation economy of the 21st century that thrives in our City depends on creating a connected country, and the FCC's efforts will help provide needed technological advancement that will create jobs and benefit the residents of San Francisco."


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In front of a packed house Thursday night, December 9, the Pilgrim Bible Academy volleyball team won three close sets over Lighthouse 25-22, 26-24, and 25-16. The team was led by juniors Erin Brecken and Makayla Ogden. Their record now stands at 7-2.
The Pilgrim Bible basketball team also won over Lighthouse in a blowout 61-29. The team was led by junior Josh Cole with 25 points, and freshman James Raisch, with his first double double of the year—14 points and 10 rebounds.
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The Los Angeles Lakers star complained he was fouled when he landed on the foot of the Hawks' Dahntay Jones with seconds left in the Lakers' 96-92 loss Wednesday night. He crumpled to the ground and clutched his ankle and the Lakers said he would be out "indefinitely."
The league posted a statement on its web site Thursday that said "video replay confirmed that referees missed a foul call on Jones as he challenged Bryant's shot and did not give him the opportunity to land cleanly back on the floor. Bryant should have been granted two free throws."
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That not only represents about a 2,400 percent increase in flight duration, but the system also doesn't require another aircraft to deliver the fuel boost. Instead, ground-based lasers—from a mobile vehicle or stable delivery platform—simply target the craft's solar cells while it circles overhead. The initial tests on the Stalker were conducted in a controlled wind tunnel, and at its conclusion the drone's batteries actually had a greater charge than when the test was started. And theoretically, it means the only reason a reconnaissance drone would ever have to land would be for physical maintenance, or if it gets shot down. [Lockheed Martin via Gizmag]


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (March 27, 2011) - Pacing a field of several ETSU athletes at Saturday's Weems Baskin Invitational at the University of South Carolina, Ben Ronoh (Sotik, Kenya) turned in a second-place finish in the 5,000-meter run, while Sean Duffy (Jonesborough, Tenn.) took up the Kenyan's cloth as the runner-up in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Despite a slightly faster seeded time, Ronoh couldn't catch Savannah College's Ignacio Fernandez in the 5,000, clocking in at 15:03.95. Ronoh also broke into the top 20 in the 1,500-meter run, running a 4:11.60.
Meanwhile, Duffy followed the example Ronoh set in Charlotte, turning in ETSU's second straight top-two finish in the steeplechase. No one in the field could catch up to Benedict's Dickson Toroitich, the only athlete to finish in less than 10 minutes, but Duffy outpaced South Carolina State's Charles Kurgatt by almost six seconds with a time of 10:22.64.
Among several other top-ten finishes on the men's side, Landon Milhorn (The Woodlands, Texas) collected two solid distance finishes, coming in third behind teammate Ronoh in the 5,000-meter run at 15:28.68, and fifth to pace the Bucs in the 1,500-meter run with a 4:04.47 mark. Milhorn's time in the 5,000 put him comfortably ahead of the nearest competitor, Vince DePiano of host South Carolina.
Two other Bucs rounded out the top-ten cluster in the 1,500, as Desmond Pierce (Morristown, Tenn.) and Christian Brewer (Knoxville) finished within a second of one another. Pierce was seventh at 4:06.18, while Brewer's 4:06.46 time landed him in eighth. Rounding out the distance complement, Pierce added a fifth-place 1:56.87 in the 800-meter run, just ahead of Ryan Jones (Apopka, Fla.), running a 1:57.70 sixth.
Leading the way in sprints, Mike James (Palm Bay, Fla.) went for third in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.36. Over in the 400-meter dash, Tim O'Dell (Palm Coast, Fla.) clocked in with a fifth-place 49.24. Robert Purcell (Raeford, N.C.) and Ifrish Alberg (Paramaribo, Suriname) finished respectably in their events, as Purcell hurdled 400 meters in 56.34 and Alberg hung onto a top-10 finish in the 200-meter dash in 22.15.
ETSU got on the map in the field events as well, led by Cornell Sneed (Miami, Fla.) and Matt Baum (Middletown, Md.), both finishing eighth as Sneed hurled the discus 149-08.00 (45.62m) and Baum spiked the javelin into the turf at 177-02.00 (54.00m). Michael Lockhart's (Dandridge, Tenn.) 22-03.25 (6.79m) mark in the long jump got him into 10th at the end.
On the women's side, two top-threes highlighted the festivities, one in distance and one in relay. Chelsea Clark (Fairmont, W. Va.) transitioned from last week's 3,000-meter run to this week's steeplechase, where her 11:46.54 finish put her in third. In the 4x100-meter relay, the quad squad of Emma Bowers (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Hannah Bowers (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Jasmine Ingram (Frederick, Md.) and Palmetto State native Emani Harrison (Columbia, S.C.) put together a 45.98 third-place effort. Running in the familiar surrounds of her hometown, Harrison added a seventh in the 100-meter dash, running the C-note in 11.98.
Three more Bucs scored in the women's field events, as Lexie Burley (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Kelly Monteleone (Verona, Pa.) went back-to-back in the long jump standings. Burley's 17-04.25 (5.29m) mark was eighth, while Monteleone broke the sand at a ninth-place 16-10.75 (5.15m). Lili Allison (Oxford, Ala.) tossed in another solid finish in the hammer throw, chalking up a heave of 159-06.50 (48.63m).
Assistant Coach Eli Sunquist said he had hoped for a better all-around performance, which he hopes to see in the next two weeks leading into the Atlantic Sun Championships in Jacksonville, Fla.
"Like the weather this weekend, our performance at this meet was mostly cold, cloudy, and had just a few bright spots," said Sunquist. "We are hoping to have a much better showing at Liberty next weekend when we bring a fuller team."
ETSU goes to two more events before the conference meet April 15 and 16. They begin April next Friday and Saturday at the Liberty Invitational in Lynchburg, Va., before taking on the Sea Ray Relays April 6 to 9 in Knoxville. "With the Outdoor conference meet quickly approaching," Sunquist added, "we are focused in on not only producing good results over the next few weeks, but also trying to get as many athletes as we can to the NCAA regional meet."
For more on the Liberty Invitational, check the track and field page at libertyflames.com. For more on ETSU Track & Field, visit ETSUBucs.com.


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Washington (CNN) The Secret Service said Tuesday it is taking "appropriate action" after one of its agents suggested on Facebook that she would not defend President Donald Trump should someone try to shoot him.
Kerry O'Grady, a senior agent in the Denver field office, made a series of now-deleted postings on Facebook during the campaign saying that she supported Democrat Hillary Clinton and that she would not honor a federal law that prevents agents like her from airing their political beliefs publicly. O'Grady deleted the posts shortly after The Washington Examiner reported them on Tuesday.
"As a public servant for nearly 23 years, I struggle not to violate the Hatch Act. So I keep quiet and skirt the median," she wrote in one Facebook post, as reported by the Examiner. "To do otherwise can be a criminal offense for those in my position. Despite the fact that I am expected to take a bullet for both sides."
"But this world has changed and I have changed. And I would take jail time over a bullet or an endorsement for what I believe to be disaster to this country and the strong and amazing women and minorities who reside here. Hatch Act be damned. I am with Her," she wrote.
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"All Secret Service agents and employees are held to the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct," the agency said in a statement. "Any allegations of misconduct are taken seriously and swiftly investigated."
The postings were on O'Grady's personal account, noted a person familiar with the matter, but said the agency is trying to determine if she posted the information while she was working.
Reached on the phone, O'Grady on Tuesday declined to comment to CNN on the postings.
The person familiar with the matter told CNN that Secret Service officials are extremely disappointed with what the agent did, especially because the agency did a lot of good work with the campaign and inauguration.
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With no deal in sight, the U.S. federal government will undergo a partial government shutdown until political leaders can reach an agreement to fund the government. On Tuesday morning, all non-essential government employees will be ordered to leave work until further notice. This is the first time the government is shutting down in 17 years.
The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed three continuing resolutions to temporarily fund the government. The Democratic-led Senate has countered with three of its own continuing resolutions. Yet the two sides have failed to reach an agreement. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, says that he will not offer any concessions to Republicans to finalize a deal.
As of Tuesday, some 800,000 federal workers who are considered non-essential will be furloughed.
The Republican's first offer would have defunded the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." Their second offer was to delay implementation of the ACA for one year. Their third offer, passed Monday afternoon and quickly rejected by the Senate, would have delayed the individual mandate to purchase health insurance for one year, repealed the medical device tax, and revoked the premium supports for congressional staffers (Republicans say this is repealing an exemption from the law for Congress, but this is a myth.)
Each Republican bill got consecutively more Democratic votes in the House, from two to nine, and fewer Republican votes.
In a Monday interview on NPR, Obama said he will not make any counteroffers to Republicans.
"I shouldn't have to offer anything," he said. "They're not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. That's part of their basic function of government; that's not doing me a favor. That's doing what the American people sent them here to do, carrying out their responsibilities."
Even though Republicans passed three funding bills, each consecutively more in the direction of the president's position, and Obama refuses to compromise with them, he complained that Republicans will only negotiate if they can get 100 percent of what they want.
"I have said consistently that I'm always happy to talk to Republicans and Democrats about how we shape a budget that is investing in things like early childhood education, rebuilding our roads and bridges and putting people back to work, growing our economy, making sure that we have the research and development to stay at the cutting edge and that deals with some of our long-term debt issues. But we're not going to accomplish those things if one party to this conversation says that the only way that they come to the table is if they get 100 percent of what they want and if they don't, they threaten to burn down the house," he said.
The House and Senate did pass a bill that would make sure that active duty military would continue to be paid in the event of a government shutdown. Obama said he would sign that bill.
All essential government personnel will remain at work. This means that all federal law enforcement, federal courts, border patrol, air traffic control and the U.S. Postal Service will not be effected. Also, those that receive Social Security, SNAP, or "food stamps," Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and school lunches will continue to receive their benefits. The ACA's health care exchanges will also go into effect, as planned, on Tuesday.
All national parks and museums will be closed. Other federal agencies will reduce many of its functions but maintain others. The IRS, for instance, will continue to collect taxes, but any audits will be suspended until the shutdown is over.
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Before I acquired this web domain, it apparently was operated by the Diocese of Joliet, whose newspaper is (or was) also called "Catholic Explorer". I want to make it perfectly clear that there is no association between they and I (other than the obvious Catholic connection, which should certainly not be taken to imply any more than a shared religion!).
Nevertheless, I have preserved some of the information from the 'old' Catholic Explorer, as a service to those who may have navigated here with older links or bookmarks. Please keep in mind that I am NOT the original author of the material pertaining to the Diocese of Joliet, and cannot verify that the information is still accurate or current.
As I am commuting back and forth from Las Vegas until I have a place, I'm aware of some very interesting phenomena regarding the church and Las Vegas. I learned that all holy water in this town is actually from spring water. And that these springs are sacred to the local tribes. So the bottled water you drink in LV may have duel spiritual significance – once for the church, once for the ancient ones.
As largely a personal endeavor, I wish to stress that my statements and opinions are not meant to establish any sort of dogmatic stance, or be a definitive resource for anyone researching the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, I urge you to refer to the 'official' websites of the Roman Catholic Church, either the Vatican site or the extremely informative Catholic News as a starting point fro your investigations.
I caution you that some of the language herein represents nothing more than a stage of belief or a philosophical argument, for the purpose of determining the ultimate elements of value.
However, despite the personal intent, students of Catholicism or comparative religion in general may find something of worth upon this site. Please take care to maintain a proper level of objectivity and criticism — the last thing that I want is to be interpreted as sounding overly dogmatic or instructional!
And, of course, this is very much a work in progress. Please don't hold it against me that some of the passages seem unfinished or nonsensical; I often write off-the-cuff or stream-of-consciousness style, and leave the editing for later (if ever!).
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Sigh. I always loved to draw in sand.
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Maybe the title should have been "Music that moves you?"
To do what though?
Inspiration, allows a "creative flow" to manifest and move from within, while translating outward, in the movement of art work that you see.
Not to detract from the art work, but this makes me think deeply about dance, "colour of emotions[colour of gravity]," a music hall.
So some basic understanding about "this medium" taken to another level. May be, the understanding that sound has a vibration aspect that can move the "granular" to positions liquidly.
The Chladni plate.
A Chladni plate consist of a flat sheet of metal, usually circular or square, mounted on a central stalk to a sturdy base. When the plate is oscillating in a particular mode of vibration, the nodes and antinodes set up form a complex but symmetrical pattern over its surface. The positions of these nodes and antinodes can be seen by sprinkling sand upon the plates;
Yes on it's own her artwork is unique.
Wayne Hu uses sound vibration with regards to the Chladni plate as an example of our universe. But what is the direct connection of the movement and music?
Dr. Jenny's cymatic images are truly awe-inspiring, not only for their visual beauty in portraying the inherent res-ponsiveness of matter to sound (vibration) but because they inspire a deep re-cognition that we, too, are part and parcel of this same complex and intricate vibrational matrix -- the music of the spheres! These pages illumine the very principles which inspired the ancient Greek philosophers Heraclitus, Pythagoras and Plato, and cosmologists Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler.
It's not hard to think of E8(sorry:) and the complexity of the design. To wonder about all those "rotational values" embedded in, as a result.
Why I mentioned Mendeleev in Garrett Lisi model.
Mr. JOHN A. R. NEWLANDS read a paper entitled "The Law of Octaves, and the Causes of Numerical Relations among the Atomic Weights."[41] The author claims the discovery of a law according to which the elements analogous in their properties exhibit peculiar relationships, similar to those subsisting in music between a note and its octave. Starting from the atomic weights on Cannizzarro's [sic] system, the author arranges the known elements in order of succession, beginning with the lowest atomic weight (hydrogen) and ending with thorium (=231.5); placing, however, nickel and cobalt, platinum and iridium, cerium and lanthanum, &c., in positions of absolute equality or in the same line. The fifty-six elements[42] so arranged are said to form the compass of eight octaves, and the author finds that chlorine, bromine, iodine, and fluorine are thus brought into the same line, or occupy corresponding places in his scale. Nitrogen and phosphorus, oxygen and sulphur, &c., are also considered as forming true octaves. The author's supposition will be exemplified in Table II., shown to the meeting, and here subjoined:--
One may like to see my post titled "Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev: The Law of Octaves" but I am wary seeing Carl being reminded of any links to his site.
Maybe in relation to the art this is okay?
Hi Michael,
Yes, it uses the medium very well. I actually like this one better than the one I embedded, because it tells a little story - I just don't like the cuts. But the roses are great.
Hi Plato,
Symmetry is extremely appealing isn't it? It's easy to fall for its beauty. Best,
Broken symmetry is aesthetically prettier than symmetry - MC Escher, the Mandelbrot set, Beethoven, architecture. Tension arises from near misses and deep structure. Good drama is shaped like a "W". Big beginning, big ending, complex resolutions and a little bloodletting in-between.
The Weak Interaction proclaims the universe is not universally interchangeable. Pretty!
Wow. That's beautiful. (And amazing.) Thanks, Bee.ReplyDelete
That's ultra gay music. Her technique, however, is wicked.ReplyDelete
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io9 has already featured 'making of' posts for my Eddard Stark and Bran Stark artworks for the 2012 George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar. This week, I'm sharing how I created my artwork for Sansa Stark and the Hound.
One of the many great things about this job was George and Bantam let me make the first call on what images and characters I wanted to illustrate. So I made a 'wish list', and whittled it down to a final twelve. When I was done, George signed off on most of them, but he offered three or four images of his own that weren't on my list. He offered these for me to consider and I thought they were all terrific. So I nuked a few of mine and replaced them with his because it made for a more balanced set.
One of George's suggestions was Sansa Stark and the Hound (AKA Sandor Clegane).
George thought it would be fun to consider the scene where the Hound encounters Sansa in her darkened chamber while the Battle of the Blackwater rages outside. When I think about Sansa and the Hound, I think about Beauty and the Beast. I don't mean any specific incarnation of that storyline, but just a perverse version of it. However, if there was one version that did come to mind, it was Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête.
Another set of images that came to mind were the famous Arrow Dress Shirt ads illustrated by the great J.C. Leyendecker. Here are two examples. I was interested in a completely different emotional temperature than the Leyendecker art though.
I did a sketch heavily influenced by the Leyendeckers, fully knowing that I'd work out better versions of the characters if we chose this direction.
I don't even think that I finished this drawing before a completely different idea popped in my head. This one had a more simplified and iconic, close-up composition. I scribbled the new idea down. The composition almost leaned toward abstraction, which I liked because very few ASoIaF-related artworks straddle the line between realism and abstraction. They usually dwell almost exclusively in more literal, scene-driven territory.
Still — I figured, because of the relatively odd composition, it was a longshot that George would go for this. I submitted my sketches and ideas. He selected this one almost immediately.
I had a pretty decent idea of how to handle Sansa from the beginning, but the Hound's scars were gonna require more study. I asked a friend to model for me and I tried out some latex makeup on his face. I also looked at photography of spaghetti and meatsauce. The latex was a nice help, but as you can see in the pencils below, a lot of the scarring was discovered in the drawing. There's a wave-like, pseudo-"Starry Night" quality to Sansa's hair that wasn't planned at all when I was drawing. I really liked it when it happened, and tried my best not to overdraw and ruin it.
When it came time to figure out the overall colour scheme, the answer was super-simple, and I knew it even when I was doing the greyscale sketches.
What are the colours of the wildfyre as described in the passages of the Battle of the Blackwater? Sickly green and orange. That battle is raging outside Sansa's window when this encounter occurs. And what better than the month of Halloween for a face like the Hound? It was a no-brainer that this artwork would be October's. I look forward to seeing lots of scary, scarred Hounds roaming the streets on Halloween this fall.
John Picacio is a 2012 Hugo Award finalist for Best Professional Artist. Check out his work at www.johnpicacio.com and follow him on Twitter at @JohnPicacio. He's appearing in mid-June at DeepSouthCon 50 in Huntsville, AL, and will have some cool surprise art goodies for George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire fans in attendance.


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On June 5, 1981, the virus that would become known as HIV was mentioned for the first time in a medical publication. As we approach that anniversary, CNNHealth takes a look at 30 years of the epidemic that changed the world, through the eyes of people who've lived it.
(CNN) -- In 1985, Edmund White had five or six published books behind him, a Swiss lover with him and the outcome of an HIV test ahead of him. When the results came in, White told his partner:
"I'm a good enough novelist to know how this is going to work out. I'm going to be positive, you're going to be negative, you're going to be very nice about it, but you're going to break up with me within a year."
By many accounts, White is a good novelist -- a great one, actually, having written numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction.
Unfortunately, his storytelling sensibility foretold how the HIV tests would turn out and how he would lose his lover because of the dire prognosis: only two or three years left to live.
Like so many gay men in the 1980s, White struggled with an illness that seemed like a death sentence and isolated him from those who feared contagion. But he didn't let himself be defined by his illness, nor did he try to hide it.
Through his activism, writing and public appearances, White gave a voice to so many of his peers who were afraid to announce their status and a memory for the hundred-some friends he has lost to AIDS over the past 30 years.
30 years of AIDS moments to remember
The price of free love
For many, HIV marked the end of what has been called the "Golden Age of Promiscuity." After the Stonewall riots of 1969, when gays fought back against a police raid at a bar in New York's Greenwich Village, gay activism exploded across the country, and social life became more open. And with birth control pills available, abortion legalized and antibiotics developed for many sexually transmitted diseases, the risks of all forms of sex seemed more minimal than ever before.
If you've read White's books, you know he's not shy about how much sex he had with a gamut of men in those days.
"New York seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation. To us, however, it represented the only free port on the entire continent. Only in New York could we walk hand in hand with a member of the same sex," White wrote of the 1970s in his memoir "City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 70s."
That relative bliss came under attack in 1981, when writer Larry Kramer invited White and dozens of other gay men to his apartment near Washington Square Park. Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien, a dermatologist and virologist at NYU's Langone Medical Center, spoke to them about a mysterious illness that seemed to target gays.
Friedman-Kien had been finding Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor normally seen only in older men of Eastern European or Mediterranean origin, in young gay men. Cases of that "gay cancer" were also cropping up in San Francisco.
"People asked me what they should do, and I said, 'well, really, we think there might be something about gay sexual activity related to the tumor and the other diseases that are occurring.' And the group was kind of outraged," Friedman-Kien remembers. "They weren't about to give up free sex and their open new lifestyle."
"Everybody looked at everybody like, is this guy crazy?" White recalls.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Dr. Michael Gottlieb had started seeing clusters of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among gays, leading to a June 5, 1981, report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention that's considered the first scientific publication regarding HIV.
In July, the CDC published a followup about the Kaposi's sarcoma cases that Friedman-Kien and other doctors had observed. Both the pneumonia and cancer symptoms indicated that a never-before-seen infectious disease was destroying the immune systems of many gay men.
A new "crisis"
As more people in their community came down with this illness, White, Kramer and four other men formed the Gay Men's Health Crisis. The name emphasized the target population of gay men and the seemingly temporary nature of the disease. White became the first president.
The organization, which met in people's living rooms, had ambitious goals that were hard to achieve in the early '80s. The men wanted to urge prevention, but no one knew exactly what was causing the disease or how to control it; they wanted to back research but didn't have enough funds; they wanted to sustain people who had the disease, even though there weren't effective treatments at the time. Also, they believed that society at large didn't care.
But the group was in the dark about how to best help the cause. "We were so benighted and so cut off from the mainstream and so low in self-esteem that all we could think to do was to have a disco party," he said.
Unfortunately, these parties didn't generate enough money to finance research or spread information, and researchers had trouble getting enough funding. Friedman-Kien and colleagues had to rely on handouts and private foundations for research money because they couldn't get the attention of the government, including the New York Public Health System.
"The attitude was, these (diseases) are only in gays and IV drug users, underdogs, people who didn't deserve any special attention," Friedman-Kien said. "It wasn't until the hemophiliacs developed PCP pneumonia and other opportunistic infections that the government suddenly felt they were victims."
Compared with other illnesses, though, the trajectory of HIV research and treatment development moved faster than almost anything else in medicine, said Dr. John Bartlett, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who has led the school's efforts to combat and prevent AIDS since the early '80s.
"The people that had it had the feeling that their needs were being ignored. I think that plays out with any really lethal disease. You just don't think scientists or medicine is doing enough. Some of it is not necessarily reality," Bartlett said.
After a few months, White was happy to hand over leadership of Gay Men's Health Crisis to Paul Popham, whom White remembers as a successful businessman. But Popham and Kramer fought, leading to Kramer's departure from the group. Kramer later wrote the play "The Normal Heart" about those early days of Gay Men's Health Crisis, now recognized as the world's first provider of HIV/AIDS prevention. Kramer went on to found ACT UP, an activist group instrumental in demanding better health care and research for HIV. Popham died in 1987, of AIDS.
No refuge in Europe
When White moved to France in 1983 through a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for writing, he thought he was escaping this new disease, at least for a while. He liked Paris so much that he stayed there -- "with its drizzle, as cool, grey and luxurious as chinchilla," he writes in the autobiographical novel "The Farewell Symphony" -- beyond the year that he had planned.
But HIV began hitting the country in a big way. One of its early victims was French philosopher Michel Foucault, also gay, who invited White over for dinner a few times for rich meals without vegetables. When White brought up AIDS, Foucault laughed and accused him of being puritanical, calling it an "invented" disease "aimed just at gays to punish them for having unnatural sex." The esteemed thinker died of the disease in the summer of 1984.
"In Paris AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic, depressed but determined to keep the party going," White writes in "The Farewell Symphony."
Since he'd had so many sexual encounters with different men, White had generally assumed that he was HIV-positive. But the reality of blood test results hit him hard: His own life party seemed to have stopped.
He was too dejected to write and had no support system to help him through that tough time. None of the American-style support groups existed in Paris. He had joined a group called AIDES, founded by Foucault's surviving partner, but the focus was more on political campaigning than on personal experiences with the illness.
"People didn't talk about things like that. If somebody became ill in Paris, they would go back to their village and die behind closed shutters," he said.
AIDS gave its victims what Bartlett calls "the three D's" that no one wants to have: dementia, diarrhea and disgrace.
"It was an awful way to live. They got emaciated. They died a lingering death," Bartlett said. "If you asked me, 'How would you least want to die?' I'd say, 'The way an AIDS patient died in 1990.' "
And back when people thought HIV could be transmitted through saliva or tears, they would limit their casual contact, White said. Bartlett remembers the same fears; people even wondered whether mosquitoes could transmit the virus.
"Mothers didn't want me picking up their babies. People didn't want to kiss you on the cheek. People certainly didn't want to have sex with you, especially other gay people. It was very isolating and demeaning," White said. "That was a long battle."
But within a year or two, educated people got the word that HIV doesn't spread through non-sexual gestures. The death of actor Rock Hudson in October 1985 played a big part in that, White remembers; there was so much publicity around Hudson's death that it had the effect of bringing AIDS out of the closet.
And back in the U.S., President Reagan also took the issue seriously. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop wrote a brochure about AIDS that was sent to all 107 million American households in 1988. Bartlett also gives a lot of credit to basketball star Magic Johnson for revealing his HIV-positive status in 1991, destigmatizing it broadly.
Still, it was harder to get a date (and still is). White said that once he reveals his status, he'll often be rejected instantly "unless people are very educated and scientific in their orientation."
White isn't a religious or "New Age-y" person and considers himself an atheist. But about a year after the diagnosis, he had a moment of reflection that kept him moving forward.
He sat in his Paris apartment cross-legged on his little couch-bed, in a yoga position he barely knew how to do, and meditated. It was a way of coping with his positive status, since statistically it seemed inevitable that he would die soon.
"I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said no," he said. "I sort of paid attention to that."
Superficially, he considers it a "totally superstitious, ridiculous moment."
But he listened to it, even when the reporters started showing up in Paris to interview him as a great writer who would be dead within a year. PBS's Peter Jennings and the BBC's "Face to Face" featured him in 1990.
White spoke to reporters about being HIV-positive when virtually no other prominent people were open about it. At that time, the only people seen talking about AIDS in the press were doctors, he said.
"I took it as being something like the original struggle to come out as a gay person. And I said, 'OK, well, now we have to come out as being positive.' But nobody else was that imprudent, because they really felt that it would lead to discrimination," he said.
Among his works from that period, he co-wrote a book of short stories with Adam Mars-Jones called "The Darker Proof," published in 1988, which was the first creative statement by gays about what living with the disease was like for ordinary people. The short story "Palace Days" fictionalizes the moment when he told his Swiss lover how he thought he'd be positive and his partner would be negative.
White devoted himself to researching the life of gay novelist Jean Genet, a project that took seven years before the highly acclaimed 1993 biography appeared. And in 1997, he published "The Farewell Symphony," the third of his autobiographical novels. Having recently lost his lover to AIDS, the narrator looks back on his sex-filled experiences in New York and Paris but confronts the disease head-on only in the last chapter, when he finds out his own status and loses many good friends to the illness.
"And now, as I numbered my dead, I felt that I'd spent my whole life social climbing and someone had sawed the ladder out from under me," he writes in "The Farewell Symphony."
The medication question
White didn't take any drugs in the early days. He was raised a Christian Scientist, and even though he didn't subscribe to that religion, he still kept the old habits of avoiding doctors for the most part.
In 1986, the year after White's diagnosis, AZT got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, marking a breakthrough for AIDS treatment. Pharmaceutical companies had shied away from drug development because they thought it was impossible to treat a retrovirus, a disease like HIV that's incorporated into the genome of the infected person. Importantly, AZT quickly brought down the rate of babies infected with HIV, Bartlett said.
But everyone White knew who took AZT in the '80s seemed to die faster than those who didn't take it.
"We just knew that it worked, but we knew it didn't last long," Bartlett said. It seems, retrospectively, that AZT lengthened life by about four to six months at that time.
Since his T-cell counts were still relatively high, White didn't try AZT. The drug had to be taken every four hours, even during the night, and came with nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and other side effects.
"It made people sick, sick as a dog, because we gave huge doses," Bartlett said.
A more robust therapy came in 1996 with the "triple cocktail" of three kinds of drugs that help the body fight HIV and boost the immune system's defenses. That marked a game-changer, with the ability to lower people's virus load to undetectable levels. Still, the regimen was demanding at first: People needed to take their medications several times a day and had bad side effects, Bartlett said.
Since then, the drugs have gotten a lot easier to manage. There's even treatment that's a single pill, combining the three kinds of drugs, that can be taken once a day, and more like that are in the pipeline, Bartlett said. And with available treatments, many people are living with HIV as a chronic illness instead of dying and don't have specific symptoms. Patients on appropriate meds may have "near-normal" longevity, Bartlett said, though more research is needed to determine the illness' exact effect.
"The medicine that we have today restores health," Bartlett said. "It's a whole lot different than it used to be, and they look terrific."
No longer a death sentence
White eventually learned that he's in a small category of people with HIV called slow progressors, people whose disease does not develop as rapidly as in most patients. Since 2004, he has been on a simplified triple-therapy regimen.
Now 71 years old, White has been a beloved professor of creative writing at Princeton University since 1999, a position in which his knowledge, charisma and passion for prose often transform students' thinking about storytelling.
Gay Men's Health Crisis has also transformed from the small gathering of White and five other men in 1981; it now has 200 staffers, 900 volunteers and a corporate structure. The organization offers many services such as rapid testing, support groups and a hot line, and it advocates for more government funds for HIV/AIDS.
"We certainly stand on the shoulders on those six very brave and courageous men who challenged the larger society, challenged the gay community, challenged government to really take account of what was happening, even before it was officially named and even before people understood it," said Marjorie Hill, the current CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis. "They said, 'We need to take care of each other.' "
As the endurance of that group suggests, the crisis is not over. The most recent data from the CDC suggest that there were about 56,000 new HIV infections in 2006, and 15,600 AIDS-related deaths per year, in the United States alone. And although fewer people are dying than in the 1980s, there's still a lot of work to be done, particularly with regard to prevention and education, Hill said.
"The continued service as well as advocacy we do is really a continuation and in honor of the courageous move that they made, what's for some people a lifetime ago," she said.
White writes, on average, a book every year. Teaching and writing take up most of his time. He has lived with his partner Michael Carroll, with whom he has an open relationship, since 1995.
"Now, I think there's every reason to be hopeful. It really is more like a disease like diabetes," White said. "There are a lot of inconveniences, but you can go on living. And I would say AIDS is about like that now."


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Mariners name Tom Allison director of pro scouting
SEATTLE, Wash. – Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations Jack Zduriencik announced today that Tom Allison has joined the organization as the Director of Professional Scouting.
Allison comes to the Mariners with over 18 years of scouting experience. He most recently served as the Midwest Regional Crosschecker in the Amateur Scouting Department of the Boston Red Sox in 2011-12. Prior to that he spent four years as Director of Scouting for the Arizona Diamondbacks (2007-10), where he oversaw several top draft classes, including the 2009 draft that was tabbed by Baseball America and ESPN.com as the No. 1 draft in MLB.
"We are excited about the addition of Tom Allison to our organization as Director of Pro Scouting," said Zduriencik. "He brings a level of experience with his background as a crosschecker, scouting director, minor league player and as a front office executive. He is a well-rounded individual and his contributions will be an asset to the Seattle Mariners."
His extensive scouting background also includes seven seasons as a Scouting Crosschecker for the Milwaukee Brewers (2000-06), and 10 years in the New York Mets organization as an Area Scouting Supervisor (1996-99) and Assistant Scouting Director (1995-96). Allison played as an infielder and coached in the Mets minor league system from 1990-94.
Allison, 45, is a graduate of Chapman University in Orange, Calif., where he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies. He also played collegiately at Loyola Marymount University, and was a member of the Lions squad that advanced to the 1986 College World Series. A Northwest native, Allison grew up in the Vancouver (WA) area. He currently resides with his family in Phoenix, Ariz.


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I DJed, playing oldies for over 30 years. One of my fans gave me this watch in appreciation for the memories I brought back to him through the music I played. It is now my treasured memory of him and the days I spun those stax of wax.


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Yoko Ono, born 18 February 1933 in Tokyo, is a Japanese artist most widely known for her relationship with John Lennon of The Beatles. When Yoko first met Lennon, she was an artist exhibiting in the UK. Working with art group Fluxus throughout the 1960s, Ono was a pioneer in the burgeoning conceptual art movement which included work in sculpture, performance, filmmaking and music. Few women in the history of rock & roll have stirred as much controversy as Yoko Ono.
Few women in the history of rock & roll have stirred as much controversy as Yoko Ono. Although her romance with Lennon was hardly the only factor straining the relationships between the Beatles, she became a convenient scapegoat for the group's breakup and was repeatedly raked over the coals in the media for her influence over Lennon, both in his life and his music. Ono's own work as an artist and musician didn't mitigate the public's enmity toward her; to the average man on the street, her avant-garde conceptual art seemed bizarre and ridiculous, and her highly experimental rock & roll (which often spotlighted her primal vocals) was simply too abrasive to tolerate. That view wasn't necessarily universal, and in fact the merits of her work are still hotly debated.
Regardless of individual opinion, Ono has left a lasting legacy; she was an undeniably seminal figure in the history of performance art, and elements of her music prefigured the arty sides of punk and new wave (whether she was a direct influence is still debated, although The B-52's did admit to drawing from her early records). Moreover, between Lennon's assassination and the myriad drubbings she's taken in the press and public opinion, an alternate portrait of Ono as a strong, uncompromising survivor has emerged in more recent years.
Yoko was born into a wealthy family in Tokyo. Her childhood was somewhat lonely and isolated; her father, a banker and onetime classical pianist, was transferred to San Francisco a few weeks before she was born, and her socialite mother was often busy throwing elaborate parties. Yoko didn't meet her father until age two, when the whole family moved to San Francisco. However, they returned to Tokyo three years later to avoid the anti-Japanese backlash that was beginning in the United States in response to Japan's growing military expansionism. Ono was educated at the Gakushuin School, the most exclusive private school in Japan (the Emperor's sons were her classmates). She began classical piano lessons at a very young age, and later received vocal training in opera. In 1945, her mother took the family to the countryside in time to survive the massive Allied bombing of Tokyo. However, rich city dwellers were unwelcome, and the Ono children were often forced to beg for food.
After the war, Ono's father transferred to New York, and she moved to the U.S. in 1952, where she studied music at Sarah Lawrence College. During this time, she became enamored of classical avant-gardists like Schoenberg, Webern and especially Cage. She also began dating Juilliard student Toshi Ichiyanagi, who shared her interests and became her husband (over her family's objections) in 1956. The couple moved to Manhattan, and Ono made ends meet by teaching Japanese art and music in the public school system, among other sporadic jobs (she'd rejected her parents' wealth and the attendant lifestyle). The couple's Chambers Street loft soon became a hot spot in the nascent downtown art scene; Ono frequently staged "happenings" (sometimes in partnership with minimalist composer LaMonte Young) that featured music, poetry and other performance, and John Cage used the loft space to teach classes in experimental composition. During this period, Ono's art was largely conceptual, sometimes existing only in theory or imagination; she created a series of instructional pieces suggesting nonsensical activities, later published in book form as Grapefruit in 1964. Her first solo show was at George Maciunas' gallery in mid-1961; the same year, Ichiyanagi and Ono separated, with the former returning to Japan.
That November, Ono performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall (not the main hall), an event that featured a miked-up toilet flushing at various points throughout the show. It received negative reviews, however. With her parents' encouragement, Ono returned to Japan in March 1962, seeking a resolution to her marriage.
Once in Japan, Ono became lonely and depressed; not only was her marriage effectively over, but she received more negative reviews for her performances in conjunction with Cage. After an overdose of pills, she was committed to a mental institution and kept under extremely heavy sedation. Fortunately, she was rescued by Anthony Cox, a jazz musician, film producer and friend of Young who had traveled to Japan hoping to study calligraphy with her. Cox threatened to publicize the callous treatment Ono had received at the institution (her sedative dosage was abnormally high) and secured her release; the two became romantically involved, and when Ono became pregnant, she made her divorce from Ichiyanagi official and married Cox. Their daughter Kyoko was born in 1963, but Cox's sometime volatility put a strain on the relationship, and they separated in 1964. Cox returned to New York, and Ono followed a few months later, after which the couple reconciled.
Ono resumed her art career to considerable attention from the New York avant-garde community; by this time, George Maciunas had become the leader of an art movement dubbed Fluxus, whose philosophies were compatible with (and even influenced by) Ono's, prizing abstraction and audience interaction. Ono performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall for a second time in early 1965, and debuted her seminal "Cut Piece," in which audience members were invited to cut off pieces of her clothing with scissors. In September 1966, she traveled to England for an art symposium, and "Cut Piece" helped make her a sensation in the London art world. In November, she got her own exhibition at the famed Indica Gallery, which was ardently patronized by John Lennon. Lennon was impressed by her work, particularly a piece where the viewer was required to climb a ladder and hold up a magnifying glass to read a small inscription on the ceiling that said "Yes!" The two read each other's writings, and Lennon financed an exhibition in which Ono painted various everyday objects white and cut them in half. In the meantime, Ono and Cox had begun making experimental films, usually centered on the repetition of simple movements; their fourth effort, Bottoms, consisted of 365 close-ups of nude buttocks (the idea was to fill the screen with motion when the subjects walked). British film censors were scandalized, and Ono became an even more notorious public figure with "Wrapping Event," in which she wrapped the lion statues beneath Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square with white cloth and tied herself to one. She also sang in concert with pioneering free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman at the Royal Albert Hall. The avant-garde was becoming increasingly suspicious of her visibility, which only intensified when Ono and Lennon began having an affair that spring.
Fans of Lennon couldn't understand what he saw in Ono, but Lennon was an art student prior to falling in love with rock & roll and had long harbored an interest in avant-garde art. The difficulty with understanding Ono's art was that its impact came largely from her ideas; from putting new contextual frames around everyday objects, or asking her audience to complete an experience with their own imaginations. For example, most of Ono's pieces were white, so that the audience could imagine their own colors; even her so-called "Blue Room" was all-white (viewers were supposed to stay in the room until it turned blue). Her first musical composition, 1955's "Secret Piece," existed only in her mind (she was unable to transcribe the notes of a bird song effectively), and, in 1968, she announced a 13-day dance festival that would take place entirely in the imaginations of anyone who participated. In 1971, she took things a step further by presenting an imaginary art exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and filmed the spectators as the real works of art. As an artist, Ono dealt in concepts, not craft (i.e., practiced, developed technique and training in a specific medium). Her work wasn't what most people recognized as art, which was why many Beatles fans dismissed her as a talentless charlatan. Lennon, on the other hand, saw someone who could help him find a new direction.
Lennon and Ono's first musical collaboration was on the highly experimental Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins, which was recorded around the beginning of their affair and released toward the end of 1968. None of Lennon's fans knew what to make of any aspect of the album; not the odd snippets of noise, faint dialogue and sounds from the immediate environment, and not the fully nude photographs of the couple on the record jacket, taken from the front and rear. They were further dismayed with Lennon's participation in Ono's bizarre public events, such as appearing together in black plastic bags as a statement about judging by appearances. (Ono herself long suspected that fans' hostility was due to their discomfort seeing Lennon with a woman who was not only strong-willed, but of a different race.) After Ono's divorce from Cox, the couple married in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, and took advantage of the publicity surrounding their honeymoon to hold "Bed-Ins for Peace" in Amsterdam and Montreal (the latter of which produced the single "Give Peace a Chance"). Cox was later able to gain custody of Kyoko, pointing to Lennon and Ono's drug intake, and disappeared with the child, whom Ono would not see again for 25 years.
The second Lennon/Ono album, Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life With The Lions, was released not long after their wedding; it spotlighted Ono's cathartic, wailing vocal improvisations, as well as addressing her first of several miscarriages. It was quickly followed by The Wedding Album, one side of which featured more Ono improv, the other of which consisted of nothing but the couple calling each other's names. Over the next few years, Lennon and Ono continued their peace activism and entered primal-scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov, which began to inform both of their individual careers. In 1970, they each recorded an album backed by the Plastic Ono Band; predictably, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was the less structured, more avant-garde of the two. Ono followed it in 1971 with the double-LP Fly, which featured more conventionally structured songs as well as her typical experimentalism. In 1972 the Lennon/Ono protest-song album Sometime in New York City was released, and was roasted for the simplicity of its sentiments.
Ono returned in 1973 with two of her strongest solo statements, the brutally intense, explicitly feminist Feeling the Space and the more varied Approximately Infinite Universe, both of which featured less musical involvement from Lennon. Perhaps that was symptomatic of the problems the couple had been having; they split up for a year and a half toward the end of 1973, exhausted from their constant time together and their battles with U.S. immigration over Lennon's threatened deportation. Ono recorded a more accessible album, A Story, in 1974, but it was shelved and remained unavailable until 1997.
The couple got back together in early 1975, and Ono was finally able to bear a child, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, who was born on John's birthday, October 9. Lennon dropped out of show business for several years to raise his son and effectively become a househusband, while Ono took charge of his business affairs. Although she contributed some of her most accessible songs to his 1980 comeback album, Double Fantasy, she did not return to solo recording until after Lennon's assassination on December 8, 1980. The harrowing, grief-stricken Season of Glass was released the following year to highly complimentary reviews. Ono followed it in 1982 with the more hopeful, pop-oriented It's Alright (I See Rainbows), and had a minor success with the single "Never Say Goodbye." Released in 1985, Starpeace continued that optimistic trend, and teamed Ono with producer Bill Laswell and other downtown New York scenesters, but failed to connect as her previous two efforts had.
Ono gradually returned to visual art, creating installations and also exploring photography. Interest in her previous work led to several retrospectives over the course of the '90s, and in 1992 Rykodisc reissued her complete back catalog on CD, as well as the six-CD box set retrospective Onobox. In 1995, she recorded a new album for Capitol called Rising, which featured son Sean Lennon and recalled the harsh experimentalism of her early recordings. The same year, her musical play New York Rock debuted off-Broadway. In 2001 another new album, Blueprint For A Sunrise, arrived, updating the feminist tone of Feeling the Space while being somewhat more accessible. V2 reissued several of her albums once again in early 2007. Also during this year, she issued Yes, I'm A Witch. For this album, she assembled a number of previously released tracks and collaborated with artists such as Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, DJ Spooky, Jason Pierce, and many others. In 2009, Ono re-formed the Plastic Ono Band with Sean and added collaborators such as Yuka Honda from Cibo Matto and members of Cornelius; she released the album Between My Head and the Sky on Sean's Chimera imprint.


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This isn't very interesting compared to a lot of other VICE documentaries.
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The CC Club is a popular punk hangout where everyone feels comfortable. The crowd is usually pretty tattooed, pierced, and plays the best rock and indie rock out of the jukebox. They pour a pretty stiff drink here, but stick to beer if it's not on special (cocktails cost $5 and are pretty small, even if they are strong). The daytime crowd is older while the night time crowd is below 30. They always have rotating specials and offer a decent selection of beers. Old school design and red pleather booths seat a chill crowd (but sometimes tough) drinking at cheap prices. The CC Club has a large following of regulars because of this.
The food here is actually really good for bar food, great nachos, huge portions, and excellent burgers (buy 1, get 1 1/2 off during the week) with their breads coming from French Meadow next door. Highly recommended when on a budget.
The CC Club used to be the smokiest venue in the city, but now they are more noted as having one of the nicest smokers' patios. Great outdoor balcony with heated and protected tables good all year round!
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Sometime new technology suffers from a chicken and egg problem. For example, if no websites start using WAI-ARIA there will be few incentives for manufacturers of assistive technology or browsers to include support in their products.
At the European Accessibility Forum in Frankfurt (eminently organised by Namics) I met Steve Faulkner who has done a lot of research on WAI-ARIA (see Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles). Although the specification isn't finalized yet there are many advantages to WAI-ARIA and browser support is increasing.
With the help of Steve, I submitted a minor patch for the default WordPress theme that adds ARIA landmark roles. I believe that a simple thing like this would make the web a better place for a lot of people as well as making web development easier.
How to add WAI-ARIA landmark roles
For an overview of methods to work with landmark roles in existing HTML see Patterns for WAI-ARIA landmark roles in existing HTML.
How to check WAI-ARIA landmark roles
If you want to start working on implementing landmark roles in a theme, check out Juicy Studio's Web Accessibility Toolbar Extension for Firefox or the YAML debug tool bookmarklet. These will aid you in checking that the markup you add is correct.
Adopt your favorite CMS
What other content management systems would you like to see support WAI-ARIA landmark roles? If more people could help to create patches adoption would increase rapidly.
Add your suggestions below (or better, create a patch and send to the developers).
Content management systems
- WordPress (patch accepted for WordPress 2.8)
- Typo3
- Joomla (patch accepted for Joomla 1.6)
- Drupal (patch submitted by Mike Gifford)
- Dotclear (patch submitted in ticket 728)
- Textpattern
- Plone (ticket 9298 submitted by Christophe Strobbe)
Wiki tools
- MediaWiki (patch submitted)
- twiki
- Dokuwiki (patch submitted)
- Dekiwiki (may need some accessibility love in other areas too)
- PmWiki (patch submitted)
Forum applications
Layout generators
Hosted services
Web frameworks
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text: As Netflix commits its future to streaming movies to customers, it relies almost exclusively on cloud services for its infrastructure, raising security concerns that require a new way of thinking, the company's cloud security architect says.Netflix develops software and pushes it into production via the cloud, which doesn't tolerate many of the characteristics of traditional data centers, says Jason Chan, whose presentation "Practical Cloud Security" was streamed live from United Security Summit in San Francisco. "There's just different ways of doing things in the cloud," Chan says.For instance, traditionally, applications are long-lived and static. Configuration and code changes are pushed to running systems. In the cloud, new versions are written and they replace the old versions entirely with new instances. There are no patches or configuration pushes.MORE CLOUD: 7 hot cloud companies to watch In traditional data centers, different teams may have their own ways of deploying applications and updating them. Standard versions of applications may disappear as groups tweak them for individual use, creating slightly different versions that are impossible to sync. Cloud does not support these practices, he says.Instead, cloud deployments have what he calls ephemeral nodes - instances that could disappear at any moment because as a customer of cloud services, Netflix has no control over the underlying network. "You have to build your architecture so you have survivability if an instance dies," he says.Hardware is abstracted. It's no longer measured in servers but in numbers of CPUs and megabytes of RAM.Viewing security changes as well. If applications are pushed and remain unchanged until they are replaced, there should be no file integrity problems. Any changes will stand out because there should be none, he says.Activity monitoring goes way down because there are virtually no reasons for administrators to log in and out to patch, for example. Again, any such activity will stand out.In traditional data centers, security staff needs to add user accounts, inventory systems, change firewall configurations and take snapshots of drives for analysis. This all takes multiple scripts to accomplish.In the cloud, gleaning similar data is done via a single API, he says, allowing businesses to perform them all centrally.Rather than traditional firewalls deployed at network chokepoints to filter traffic with rules based on IP addresses, in the cloud services are dropped into security groups and must follow the rules of that group that restrict what can connect with them and what they can connect with. So a rule might read let group A talk to group B via Port 80. The rules are policy driven, he says, and agnostic about the network itself. "A network diagram is irrelevant," he says.Instead, security diagrams show what sources are allowed to hit what targets and what other destinations that target can talk to.While cloud providers have offered some ways to address security concerns, some problems remain, Chan says. With hundreds of new nodes being created containing new codes and hundreds of others being taken down as they are replaced, administrators can no longer monitor IP addresses, he says.Providers should offer an abstraction layer that shows the health of services overall and not attempt to show the health of every node, he says.Netflix as a business started off mailing DVDs to customers. The main customer-facing infrastructure was Web servers taking customer movie orders and passing them along to a logistics machine that took care of delivery.Chan says that as Netflix headed toward the streaming movies rather than mailing DVDs, it needed more and more infrastructure so rapidly that cloud services were the only option. "We really couldn't build data centers fast enough," says Chan. "We want to be able to use the cloud not invent the cloud."Now traffic is more spikey as demand fluctuates. The introduction of a new Netflix application for iPhones can send traffic through the roof - temporarily. "That's what cloud is really intended for," he says. "Netflix.com is nearly 100% in the cloud."