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Last week's unoffical report that Apple is looking to buy Beats Music for $3.2 billion was significant far beyond its industry-shaking business ramifications--it also offered a rare peek into Cupertino's usually secretive acquisitions process.
While critics have long charged that Apple is too slow to acquire outside companies and new technologies, there has been recent evidence that is changing. CEO Tim Cook, for example, said during an October earnings call that the company made 15 "strategic acquisitions" in 2013--thought to be a busy year for the company. Last month, Cook updated the number to 24 in the past 18 months and said that the company would not be shy about making worthwhile acquisitions, even if they involved spending a lot of money.
Whether or not such acquisitions are actually increasing of late is hard to pin down: As in all of its processes, acquisition strategy included, Apple puts a premium on secrecy. The company itself rarely offers more than a boilerplate statement--"Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans"--when it does buy other firms. Unsurprisingly, it also declined to comment for this story. Several industry analysts said that tracking Apple's movements is particularly difficult.
"We don't get any information from them," said J. Gerry Purdy, chief mobile analyst for Compass Intelligence.
"They're not very visible about those things," added Charles Golvin, an independent analyst, "so it's difficult to ascertain whether they've picked up the pace or if it's become more visible."
One of the best sources of information about Apple's movements is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Wikipedia, which has a documented list of mergers and acquisitions by Apple throughout the company's history. Each item names the acquired company, its specialty, how much Apple paid, and how that company's work came to fruition in Apple projects, starting with the purchase of a software company Network Innovations, in 1988. The list contains 57 entries--including 13 in 2013 and not including the yet-to-be-finalized Beats deal--which would prove to be a relatively busy year for the company.
In pure dollar terms, though, the purchase of Beats would likely on its own surpass all the acquisitions in any single year of the company's history.
Contributing factors
According to analysts, Apple looks for three things when making a deal to buy a company.
Synergy of brand and culture. "[Apple's] very good at music," said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, pointing to the company's history with the iPod and iTunes Music Store. "Beats is a similar brand--a perception of quality, marketed well."
"There has to be a cultural fit as well," said analyst Ben Bajarin. "So Apple is not just looking at the tech but also if the culture of the company will fit with Apple. It is all interrelated."
Innovation. "I do believe [Apple has] picked up the pace (of acquisitions) but that is due to the nature of how fast innovation is happening around the industry," Bajarin said. "Many companies are getting funded, creating unique innovations, and more, so Apple is looking stay ahead of the market and competition."
Bajarin offered several examples: The 2008 purchase of P.A. Semi, a semiconductor design group, lead to the creation of Apple's A5 processor, which Bajarin described as "one of the most innovative SoC designs in the market today." Similarly, the 2012 purchase of AuthenTec led to the iPhone 5s's Touch ID. "Both those underlying companies are critical to the company's long term strategy," Bajarin said.
Shore up weaknesses. A number of Apple's 2013 purchases were of digital mapping companies--an attempt to shore up a clear weakness after the company ditched Google in favor of its own, much-unloved maps app for iOS.
Similarly, the acquisition of Beats is seen as a way to make progress in the streaming music area: The relatively young and comparatively underdeveloped iTunes Radio isn't seen as having made enough headway against services like Pandora and Spotify; Beats Music offers both ready-made technology, an enthusiastic audience, credibility to Apple in an area where it's still seeking a foothold.
"You don't know anybody who actually uses it," Pachter said of iTunes Radio. "You don't know anybody who says it's great."
One final element enabling the speeded-up pace/size of acquisitions: A gigantic hoard of cash--around $150 billion as of the most recent quarter--that Apple's investors expect to be put to good use.
"I think one contributor is their gigantic cash hoard and the judgement by the financial community that it ought to do something more productive than sit in an offshore account," Purdy said. "I think they've got an attitude under Tim Cook that they're going to be more productive with it, instead of saving it for a rainy day."


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Biology Chart Style
In the same vein as schoolhouse and vintage library trends, the biology lab is making its way into home decor with a vengeance. We'll skip the brain-in-vat portion, thank you, but as for the bio charts, well, let's discuss...
We don't normally think of the human gastronomical system as being a sight especially fit for dining and living room decor. However, the old charts are oddly appealing, and I suppose that it's no surprise. Often, their oversize images are akin to the quirky graphic patterns we've come to love in modernist textiles. Their quirkiness is lovable because it is so unexpected and out of place. Or maybe it's the sense of nostalgia itself that we will always love about vintage finds.
Whatever the case, biology charts and other science lab inspired decor continue to be on the rise. Are you digging it?
We've some neat ones on etsy from seller's Lucky Little Dot, HelloVictory, and Finding Fabulous, however be prepared to fork over a pretty little penny.
(Images: 1: Better Homes and Gardens, 2: Country Living, 3: Apartment Therapy: SF Patrick's Curiosity Filled Studio, 4: Apartment Therapy: DC Valorie's Southern Colors, 5: House and Home, 6: Design Public, 7: Elle Decor, 8: Decor8)

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If tables or charts are reproduced exactly as they appear in a source then the name of the author, year and page number must be given. If the chart was found on page 10, your in text citation should look like:
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Brooks House deal closes
BRATTLEBORO -- The Brooks House is now under new ownership and construction crews will be on site before the end of this month to begin work on the historic downtown property.
Mesabi LLC, the team of five local investors who are undertaking the project, completed the deal for the Main Street building Monday afternoon.
The group needed to raise about $24 million for the purchase of the building, and for all costs associated with the design and rehabilitation.
The Brooks House has been vacant since April 17, 2011, when a five-alarm fire ripped through the 1871 building, badly damaging the four-story structure.
Mesabi purchased the building from Jonathan Chase, the former owner who announced a year after the fire that he would not be able to rehabilitate the property.
"It's hard to believe we're really there," said Bob Stevens, a member of Mesabi LLC. "We had to pinch ourselves yesterday when we closed. Everyone is really happy."
Mesabi LLC is made up Stevens, along with Craig Miskovich, Drew Richards, Peter Richards and Ben Taggard.
The group is planning a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, July 17 at 1 p.m. at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden on Main Street.
Stevens, of Stevens and Associates, a local architecture, civil engineering and landscape architecture firm, has been involved with the project from the first day following the fire when Stevens and members of his staff toured the building to assess the damage.
In the following months he drew up plans to help stabilize the building and protect it from the elements.
Early in 2012, Stevens said, Chase decided that he would not be able to come up with the money to rehabilitate the Brooks House. Stevens and Miskovich, who was also working with Chase as an attorney, decided they would try to come up with local capital, along with loans, tax credits and grants, to make sure the Brooks House remained a cornerstone of downtown Brattleboro.
"This was a community project right from the start," Stevens said. "This project makes no economic sense and we knew it would only happen if local people got involved. We knew there was no way we could let the Brooks House sit there. Brattleboro needs this and it only came together because so many people helped."
"This is great news for downtown Brattleboro and great news for all of Windham County," said Gov. Peter Shumlin, who will be at the groundbreaking ceremony next week. "I am really grateful to the Mesabi group. They worked tenaciously to raise the money and make this happen."
Brattleboro Selectboard Chairman David Gartenstein said Tuesday's announcement on the closing marked an important step in the building's rehabilitation.
"The town of Brattleboro is very pleased to hear about the closing," Gartenstein said. "The Brooks House is an important part of the vitality of downtown Brattleboro."
The board has approved $150,000 in loans to the developers to help complete the purchase and development.
"We look forward to continuing to work with the developers to see that part of town brought back to useful life," Gartenstein said. "We will work with them, and with the construction company to best maintain public access throughout construction."
Shumlin helped advance the project forward when he announced during his 2012 budget address that the state wanted to open a new downtown campus for Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College.
The Legislature approved $2 million for the new campus and ultimately the Brooks House was chosen as the location for the new college campus.
"Having the students and staff of CCV and VTech right downtown will be a huge shot in the arm for Brattleboro," Shumlin said. "Downtown Brattleboro has really suffered from the fire and then from the flooding caused by Irene. This is a huge victory for Brattleboro and we should all be celebrating."
Brattleboro resident Martha O'Connor is on the Vermont State College Board of Trustees, and was chosen by Shumlin to lead a search committee for a location for the new downtown campus.
O'Connor says college trustees supported the idea of a downtown campus from the start but she said they were less sure about how the state college would be able to pay for it.
When the Legislature included the $2 million in the capital budget, O'Connor said the project seemed that much closer to becoming a reality.
"I can't say I didn't have any doubts, but in the bottom of my heart I knew we would get there, and we did," O'Connor said. "I am thrilled everybody worked so hard to make this happen. It's wonderful for the town and for the colleges."
"This project has been in the works for a while and now that the developers have purchased the property we are excited about moving forward and beginning construction," Community College of Vermont President Joyce Judy said Tuesday. "We hope to take occupancy in one year from now. This is very exciting for us."
Programming and staffing will remain stable at first at CCV, Judy said, but the new classrooms will have updated science labs and she said the college will respond to a potential increase in class offerings the enhanced visibility might cause.
"We really are looking forward to building on our current foundation and being able to have a greater presence in the Brattleboro area," she said. "We have a capacity to grow. We are going to be able to serve the Brattleboro area in a way we can't do at our present facility."
And Vermont Technical College President Phillip Conroy said the move downtown will help the business and technical college develop stronger relationships with Brattleboro businesses, and for the nursing program to be closer to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
"This gives us a base of operation that is a lot to closer to the action," Conroy said. "The opportunity to move downtown makes good sense for us."
People renting apartments lost their homes and possessions, businesses closed and street level storefronts on Brattleboro's Main Street have been shuttered.
Developers hoped to start construction in early 2012, and then set a date for the spring.
Stevens said the very complex financing, which has the group using federal tax credits in ways that are not typical for this type of project, took time for lawyers, accountants and bankers to figure out.
The extra time, though, gave developers time to work on designs and permits and Stevens says everyone is now ready to move the project forward.
"It is very hard to redevelop old buildings like this and so many people here stepped up to make sure it happened," Stevens said. "It took a little longer than we had planned, but you have to have faith. We know people are really excited about this, and we're excited to get going too."
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To demonstrate and the SyncLog, where a change was made in the Ancestry Member Tree (AMT). Followed a Shaky Leaf in the AMT and merged that data into the AMT.
This is the screen at the conclusion of the merge in the AMT.
On the next TreeSync™, the SyncLog will look like this.
This tells me WHO made the change in the right column, and what was added or changed is to the right.
As I have my standards, I now know what I need to update. For example, there was a Census Record. I want that free form citation, put into the Census Template. This becomes my worklist to update my FTM2012 file, which will upload the next time I SyncNow.
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text: Thanks for the responses. My school ended up posting a huge listing of good callback questions, so that was really helpful. One thing that I've heard on here that I should point out is potentially wrong though. At one of my callbacks (1 of 2) I had multiple interviewers encourage me to ask the same questions of each interviewer. I saw someone saying that this was the best way to get dinged. This may be true of some firms, but clearly not all.


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The Geezer book club
The club began in 1997 when seven men, after 40 years of friendship, realized their conversations had fallen into a rut. Now, when everyone is vertical, ambulatory and in town, there are 11 of us with an average age of 80.
Our discussion takes place over lunch at the Ridgeview Grill in Wilmette. Our routine is to order lunch and then start the discussion, which lasts 60 to 90 minutes.
When we read the Quran we invited an imam from a local madrassa to join us, and the conversation went on for two hours.
We've read 117 books, one every six weeks for the past 13 years. Our list has included many Chicago-themed books such as Alex Kotlowitz's "Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago," Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and Nelson Algren's "Chicago: City on the Make," to name a few.
Some of the books we loved Daniel J. Boorstin's "The Discoverers," Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" and Garry Wills' "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America."
We did not like Richard John Neuhaus' "The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America." Neuhaus' sentences failed the clarity test.


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A daily roundup on terrorism and security issues.
Peace talks in Geneva on the conflict in Syria today are turning to the most contentious issue in the three-year civil war: the reign of President Bashar al-Assad.
After several days of discussion of humanitarian issues, including safe passage for women and children out of the besieged city of Homs, Syrian government officials and opposition leaders are to discuss a power transfer in Damascus, a topic where the sides remain miles apart.
Rebels, echoed by the United States, have long argued that Mr. Assad must step down under any serious peace accord. But Syrian officials are equally adamant that the possibility of such a transition is zero. UN mediator Lahkdar Brahimi, who has been overseeing the so-called Geneva 2 talks and is the only point of contact between government and rebel camps, must try to bridge this yawning gap between the two sides, which refuse to talk directly.
Mr. Brahimi indicated some modest progress on humanitarian issues Sunday, when he announced that the Assad regime had agreed to let women and children leave the city of Homs, which has been under siege for months and is running low on daily essentials, reports Deutsche Welle.
"What we have been told by the government side is that women and children in this besieged area of the city are welcome to leave immediately," Brahimi told reporters. "Hopefully starting [on Monday], women and children will be able to leave the Old City in Homs."
But the task of finding middle ground on Assad's future looks Herculean, based on public statements from the two sides. Al Jazeera reports that Syrian officials openly dismiss any consideration of Assad's departure, instead focusing solely on the Al-Qaeda-affiliated factions among the rebel forces.
"Let Syrians decide what is best for Syria," said Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Assad. "This war is not about President Assad, it is about Syria."
"They [the Geneva 2 conference] have tried to give themselves credibility by talking about humanitarian aid, but that has nothing to do with them. Let us stop the fighting, put a stop to terrorism and let us start a political process in Syria," she said.
Opposition spokesman Louay Safi told Agence France-Presse that the time had come "to start talking about transition from dictatorship to democracy."
On Monday, he said, "we start to see if the regime is willing to go to a political solution or stick to a military one."
Russian focus on containing militancy
The US and Russia, who organized the Geneva conference and are key backers of the rebels and the Assad regime respectively, remain equally far apart over Syria's future government.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said last week that Assad "will not be part of [a] transitional government" and must leave. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has asserted that the Geneva talks are not about Assad's future, but about containing the growing Islamic militant threat within Syria. The talks' goal, he says is to find "political accord between the Syrian government and reasonable, secular and patriotic opposition as quickly as possible and along with political settlement help them to unite for fight against these terrorists."
Vladimir Sazhin, senior researcher of the official Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, told The Christian Science Monitor that the Islamic extremists are "a headache for everybody."
"The extremist groups are at war both with the governmental troops, and with Free Syrian Army and Kurdish formations in Kurd-populated regions," he says. "Free Syrian Army and governmental forces should struggle against Islamic extremists, if not in the same ranks then at least in some coordinated way, probably under the UN Security Council's aegis."
Vladimir Sotnikov, a Middle East expert at the Institute of Oriental Studies, says that "it will be difficult to convince Americans," however. "The only strong argument might be atrocities committed by the Islamic radical groups and the conflicts inside the opposition itself, between the moderate and radical parts of it."
But Mr. Sotnikov says that some sort of rebel-government alliance against the extremists is something that both US and Russia could get behind. "No force that takes part in these negotiations is interested in seeing the radical Islamists ... coming to power and bringing chaos to Syria and the region," he says. "Nobody is interested in substituting an unacceptable regime for uncontrollable Islamists."
Fred Weir in Moscow contributed to this report.


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Third Annual SMPTE NY Editing Showcase June 6, 2006
SMPTE's New York Section will once again produce its well-attended Editing Showcase on June 6th in New York City. This year, the Showcase moves to a new venue, the capacious Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), which is also a co-sponsor of the Showcase, and located in the heart of trendy Tribeca. The event is free, but registration is required at www.smpteny.org.
The day features editing system manufacturers and well-known industry not-for-profit association exhibits in BMCC's Richard Harris Terrace, which is easily located near the main entrance of the school and has an unobstructed view of the Hudson River. The college is located at Chambers Street and the West Side Highway, just north of the World Financial Center. There's plenty of transportation at the door, and parking nearby.
Exhibiting manufacturers include Apple, Avid, Adobe, Boris, Grass Valley Group/Thomson, Harris/Leitch, Media 100, Panasonic, Quantel, Sony, B & H, Digidesign, NHT Pro, Guitar Center, Discreet, FNNY, Focusrite, Future Enhancements, Leader Instruments, MPE, Pinnacle Systems, NNY, Tekserve, and Universal Audio.
Doors open to the public at 11:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. There's also a "Meet and Greet" in the exhibit area at 5:00 p.m., giving attendees the opportunity to network with other attendees and exhibitors. At 6:30 p.m., following the Meet and Greet, those interested are invited to the BMCC's 4th floor, 150-seat, amphitheater for HD-quality presentations, and discussions featuring several of the industry's leading editors and experts; a live web-cast of the presentations is also being planned. The Exhibit Hall is open until 8:00 p.m. for those who may not be able to get out of their offices during the day.
If the past two years are any indication, over 800 attendees will converge from the broadcasting, cable, production/post, and institutional facilities; not to mention the Tri-State's local freelance community. The next generation of professionals, namely students in film and TV like those at BMCC, are also invited.
For more information on the Editing Showcase, visit the SMPTE New York Section website at www.smpteny.org.


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Selling 4 x tickets for the Flying Lotus 'UTQC' party at the Troxy next Friday
8pm at the Troxy on November 16th, last entry is at 00.30am.
Really want to go but am now unavailable that night. Face value was £27.50, will accept £20 just because I'm trying to offload them swiftly, more bothered about them going to someone who'll have a great time. PM me if you're interested.
price is per ticket
just to clarify.
People should go to this
Because the twin projection screen thing is bloody amazing looking. And Thundercat is supporting.littlebirds this'd this
I thought navajo meant *next* Friday, and was going to snap them up
but, alas, I can't do this weekend either. :(
until the bump comes
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WCSU Undergraduate Commencement Speech
Ms. Patricia Llodra
Commencement, May 12, 2013
Western Connecticut State University
Good morning graduates. Congratulations to you for having reached this milestone in life's journey. And congratulations also to the moms and dads out there who are so proud of your accomplishment and who so wish you happiness and success as you venture forth. I have had the pleasure of sitting in the audience for the graduations of my own children and soon for my grandchildren. Those events always fill me with satisfaction that I, too, had accomplished one of life's most important goals – the successful shepherding and parenting of those for whom I have boundless love and for whom I am filled with great hopes and expectations for their years to come.
I describe myself these days as an accidental politician. I never intended to have this role, never thought of myself in an elected position. I spent more than 30 years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant with the bureau of education and at the Connecticut Association of Schools. For the last eight years, though, I have been involved in local government, and now for four years as the first selectman in the town of Newtown – where I have lived with my family for more than 42 years. A town that I care for a great deal – a town that I believe is special in many ways. A town that loves children and families and is especially proud of its schools. On December 14, 2012, a horrible tragedy came to this town. We lost 20 children and 6 adults to a terrible, violent crime – the worst school shooting in history.
That violence perpetrated upon us by an angry, confused young man left us fragile beyond words. Our sense of self, our confidence and our surety that we are safe was destroyed in a five-minute hail of bullets. But that heinous act also set into motion a resolve that we would prevail, that this one event would not define us, that this community of Newtown would be known for its courage, for acts of love and kindness; that we would not fall into that emotional abyss and we will not let the violence rob us further – that the loss of 26 innocent lives is more than we ever would want to sacrifice to hate and that we will allow the killer no more.
There is magnificence in that sense of resolve. It lifts the spirit and provides strength needed to go on in the face of unspeakable hurt. I think it is a tool for self-preservation. It was the anchor and the lifeline used by many, including me, to get through those first weeks after the event. The positive spirit was almost palpable in gatherings as we grieved together, set aside differences that we knew mattered little in the face of this new challenge. Pledges of perseverance were communicated over and over again – unbidden, spontaneous. I hear that same resolve in the voices of Boston and even still in those I talk with from Aurora, Tucson, Columbine and Blacksburg. I marvel every day at the conviction expressed by so many in Newtown that we will make something good come from that evil act. Still today, 130 days after the event, the commitment to do good continues unabated. That those 'initiatives for good' differ in scope, scale, content and focus matters not. In fact, I am pleased and proud to witness the great diversity of efforts – even if some of those efforts appear to diverge from the norm. The importance for me and our community is that everyone find their voice and use their talent – whatever it is – to improve the lot for the common good.
Newtown is a special place, yes, but I think, too, that we humans are basically good and kind. Given the choice, I believe that each of us individually and collectively would more often than not choose the good act over the evil act. I believe that we don't like it at all when the balance between good and evil is tipped away from us. Our personal security is threatened and is at stake when evil gains too much ground and threatens to overtake the power of goodness. And when that evil happens in a place like Sandy Hook Elementary School it brings fear to all of us – if a school known to do all the right things to ensure student and staff safety, and which was known to be a loving and inclusive place, could be the site of a mass killing, then none of us are safe.
I sensed right away on December 14 that the world would be watching us – that what we said and did would make a difference in how our community would be perceived. That mattered a great deal to me and still does. I care that Newtown and Sandy Hook are not synonymous with a horrible, tragic event. The future viability of our town depends on how we are perceived by those who would become our new residents, schoolchildren, families, businessmen, shopkeepers. We are and always have been a good place – we deserve to be seen for that goodness. But how to go forward? How am I to lead this town out of the chaos, the confusion, the overwhelming sadness and sense of violation? And how to do it in such a way that the others watching us would recognize the steely resolve to persevere mixed with a strong dose of compassion and acts of kindness. As I read and hear comments about my town, I think we have done fairly well in this regard. There is no handbook to guide us in this event so we have had to rely on our instincts about what is right and good, balanced by what is possible – I recognized pretty quickly that I was to lead with my heart, not just my head.
My role as the town's leader was and is to model the calm and confidence that we will recover, that our community will be known for its courage, dignity, resolve and compassion. That we will move past tragedy to hope and vision. That we will put our arms around each other in love and support for as long as it takes to restore our balance. It helped us in Newtown to know that the world was not only watching but that they cared, too. The outpouring of love, hope and prayers was overwhelming. All quarters of the world were represented in that outpouring … every country in every continent, every major government and most minor states; messages in more than 20 languages – from schools, churches, families, individuals and organizations. We learned through our experience that we are one people the world over.
Let me leave you with just a few messages from my experience:
- Find time in your life, in your busy schedules, to perform a service to others. That service is itself one of the greatest rewards you will experience in your adult life. Service to others is restorative to the human spirit;
- Embrace every leadership opportunity – and make sure that your heart is the most active ingredient in that leadership function, and BE the change you see needed in the world – practice those ways of being which are helpful to mankind;
- Engage at a personal level in social dynamics, make yourself part of a group – a community of like-minded or diverse individuals – look for that communal resolve, with others make communities that care for its members – our future as a society will depend on these communities.
Finally, let me congratulate you again on this occasion. I wish you well in your endeavors – and most of all I wish for you to embrace and care for our mother earth and all its peoples. I believe that your generation possesses the answers to the problems we face today. I look forward to the future you create for my grandchildren and their children.


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EPA Region 7 Urges Heartland Residents to Guard Against Skin Cancer by Observing 'Don't Fry Day' on Friday, May 27
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(Kansas City, Kan., May 26, 2011) - Every hour, one American dies from skin cancer – the number one cancer in the U.S. To help people learn easy ways to combat the disease, the U.S. EPA SunWise Program has partnered with the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention to designate the Friday before Memorial Day (May 27) as "Don't Fry Day." EPA Region 7 encourages residents to learn about and practice sun-safe behaviors this Don't Fry Day to reduce overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation – the main cause of skin cancer.
"Ultraviolet radiation is a serious threat to our health that we face every day," EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks said. "The long and hot summer days of the Heartland only increase the threat we all face. I encourage everyone to remember sun safety this summer as we enjoy the opportunities that this season brings us."
Each Memorial Day weekend, millions of Americans kick off the summer season and begin enjoying the great outdoors. Though skin cancer risks exist all year long, the dangers are even greater during the summer months, when the days are longer, and more people are outside for longer periods of time.
For "Don't Fry Day," Region 7 encourages residents to practice the Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap safety tips, which include:
- Slip on a shirt, preferably with sleeves
- Slop on SPF 15+ sunscreen generously
- Slap on a hat
- Wrap on sunglasses
In the U.S., skin cancer affects more than two million people each year, outnumbering the cases of breast, prostate, lung and colon cancers combined. One in five Americans will develop the disease in their lifetime. Meanwhile, melanoma – the most serious form of skin cancer – is on the rise. It is the most common cancer among young adults ages 25 to 29.
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The Lipscomb Bisons completed their first series sweep of the year on Sunday, March 5. After taking both games from Florida A&M in Saturday's double-header, the Bisons broke a 4-4 tie in the top of the ninth on Sunday to take the game 5-4.
Right hander Matt Schnelly got the start for the Bisons. In Schnelly's last start he pitched a three hit complete game shutout against Pittsburgh. The start was enough to make Schnelly Co-A-Sun Pitcher of the Week.
The Rattlers got on the board first in the bottom of the third, using three hits and two walks to plate three runs.
The Rattlers starter, Chad Smith held the Bisons scoreless until the top of the sixth. Zac Miller led off the inning with a walk. Two outs later, Miller advanced to third on an error by the Rattlers second basemen. Patrick O'Rourke followed with a double to center scoring Miller to bring the score to 3-1.
The Rattlers got the run back in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Peter Guastella.
However, the Bisons used a three run seventh to knot the game at four. Allen Bolden led off the inning with a double to center and advanced to third on a single by Tadd Brewer. Ryan Mitchell followed with a single, scoring Bolden. The next batter, Nathan Sensing singled to load the bases. Miller hit a sacrifice fly to score Brewer, and bring the score to 4-3. Caleb Joseph followed with a fielder's choice to tie the score at four.
For the second time this weekend, the Bisons used a ninth inning rally to earn the win. An RBI single by Miller in the ninth was all the Bisons needed to take the lead and the ball game.
Schnelly earned the win to bring his record to 2-0. In 8.2 innings, he allowed four runs, three earned, on six hits and two walks. He struck out 13.
Brandon McClurg recorded the final out to earn his first save.
The Bisons record now stands at 5-6 while the Rattler fall to 1-13.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A look at the 2013 Ohio State Buckeyes from AA to Z:
AA_is for Aaron Mawhirter, a walk-on freshman linebacker from Sandusky, Ohio, first in alphabetic order by first name but probably will have difficulty getting into a game.
A_is for "The Big A," aka as Adolphus Washington. A quarterback-eating (in a manner of speaking) defensive lineman from Cincinnati's Taft High, he was a big get for coach Urban Meyer in his first recruiting class. Now Washington is destined to make Adolphus a household name as he starts up front on the rebuilt line.
B_is for Bedford, Ohio, home of current Buckeye Tyvis Powell and former Mr. Football and ex-Ohio Stater Bam Childress. Childress never really found his niche at Ohio State after a spectacular career at Chanel High. Powell is penciled in as the Buckeyes' "Star" which is a hybrid position, melding a safety with a linebacker to provide extra coverage in passing situations.
C_is for California, the third opponent on the 2013 Ohio State schedule. The Bears open a new era under first-year coach Sonny Dykes, who comes from Louisiana Tech to replace 11-year coach Jeff Tedford. The Bears were just 3-9 a year ago, but welcome back seven starters on offense, six on defense and three on special teams.
D_is for Defense, of course. The Buckeyes have plenty of new names filling out the starting slots, since they lost seven first-team players from a year ago (including the entire line) and also will be without cornerback Bradley Roby for the first game due to a suspension.
E_is for Earle, as in Bruce. The 82-year-old was 81-26-1 in nine seasons from 1979 through 1987 as head coach of the Buckeyes. He now is a radio analyst in Columbus.
F_is for FAMU, or Florida A&M University if you prefer. The Rattlers aren't in the same class with the Buckeyes -- literally. They're a Football Championship Subdivision member, meaning they don't play in bowl games but rather can participate in a playoff at the end of the year. FAMU comes to Ohio Stadium for the first time on Sept. 21, the Buckeyes' final tuneup before beginning Big Ten play the following week at home against Wisconsin.
G_is for Geelong. That's the hometown of 21-year-old freshman punter Cameron Johnston, a former Australia Rules Football player down under. He sent a video of his punting prowess to several schools, including Ohio State, and has impressed the coaching staff enough to win the job in camp. One can only imagine what the folks back in Geelong must think of their native son as a Buckeye, named for the spiky nut of a native tree.
H_is for Heisman, and also Jeff Heuerman. The Ohio State tight end was asked during camp what he expected out of improving quarterback Braxton Miller this season. Rather than explain, he stepped back, struck a pose as if he were running and feigned a straight arm -- creating a 6-foot-6 representation of the Heisman Trophy. Then he laughed. Miller is considered one of a handful of favorites for the Heisman heading into the season, although last year's winner, Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel wasn't considered a frontrunner at this time last year. And he's back to try to win another.
I_is for the I's have it. Ohio State plays Illinois and Indiana back to back on Nov. 16 and 23rd.
J_is for J.T., times two. If Meyer ever shouts, "J.T., come here!" during practice he could get stampeded. The Buckeyes have both freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett and junior defensive lineman J.T. Moore.
K_is for Kickoff Luncheon. At the Big Ten's annual media get-together in late July, the Buckeyes were voted the team to beat not only in their division but in the conference title game (see next item).
L_is for Leaders Division. Ohio State, at 6-7, wasn't good enough two years ago to play for the fancy-named division title in the Big Ten, then last year won it but was banned from playing in the conference championship game. This will be the first time, in the third year of the conference's divisional setup, that the Buckeyes can play in the Big Ten title game, set for Dec. 1 in Indianapolis.
M_is for Miller. Make that Millers. There's two of them on the Buckeyes' roster. One, of course, is starting quarterback Braxton Miller. There's also Steve Miller, a junior defensive lineman out of Canton McKinley High. No word if some people refer to him, per a song by his namesake, as "the gangster of love."
N_is for Nine, as in nine Big Ten games. After years of playing eight conference opponents, the Big Ten shifts to a nine-game conference schedule in 2016.
O_is for Ojikutu. Brandon Ojikutu is a junior wide receiver out of Cleveland John Marshall High.
P_is for Pryor, former QB Terrelle Pryor. He is still in the midst of a 5-year exile from Ohio State, banished by the NCAA during the probe two years ago for allegedly being the guy who handed out money to players who attended a charity event. He is getting a shot to play a lot for the Oakland Raiders this season.
Q_is for the Q in Tyquan Lewis, a freshman D-lineman out of Tarboro, N.C., who had a solid camp.
R_is for Rock, as in Chris Rock. No, not the popular comedian and actor. This one is a sophomore defensive lineman who prepped at Columbus DeSales High. If this Chris Rock makes a joke, you'd better laugh -- he's 6-foot-5 and 270 pounds.
S_is for Simon, John Simon. The co-captain a year ago has moved on to the NFL and is trying to earn a spot on the roster at linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens. His absence leaves a leadership void for the Buckeyes.
T_is for Touchdowns. A year ago, running back Carlos Hyde scored 17 of them -- most on the team -- while topping the team in points with 102. This year, Hyde must sit out the first three games after he was listed as a person of interest in an alleged assault against a female at a downtown Columbus bar in July. Video from the incident appeared to show Hyde making a striking motion at the woman, who had also slapped at him. That was enough for Meyer to sit him out the first three games since the team has a strict rule regarding respecting women.
U_is for, of course, Urban. Now associated, at least in Ohio, with the football coach of the same first name, it was a moniker once associated primarily with heads of the Roman Catholic church. Pope Urban I was pope from 222 to 230. His reign is the first that can definitely be dated. There was also an Urban II, who was in charge from 1088 to 1099. He set up the first Crusade.
V_is for victory. Ohio State has 837 of them in 123 years of football to go along with 316 losses and 53 ties.
W_is for Wisconsin, a team sporting a different look this fall. The Badgers come to Ohio Stadium for the Big Ten opener on Sept. 28 and new coach Gary Andersen will likely have a few cards up his sleeve. His predecessor, Bret Bielema, shocked many by leaving Madison, Wis., for the rigors of the Southeastern Conference at Arkansas. Andersen's Badgers don't have Montee Ball (graduation) but the three-time defending conference champion does have 14 starters back, eight on offense and six on the other side, along with both kickers, the punter and long snapper.
X_is for the middle letter of Texas. After decades of only getting an occasional player out of the Lone Star State, now all of a sudden the Buckeyes are ripe with guys from the heart of Longhorn territory. Running back Dontre Wilson, the freshman flame who was the talk of fall camp, is from DeSoto. Cornerback Eli Apple hails from Houston. The aforementioned QB, J.T. Barrett, is a native of Wichita Falls, Texas. And Mike Mitchell, in the mix at linebacker, is a proud son of Plano.
Y_is for Youngstown, starting center Corey Linsley's hometown.
Z_is for zip, as in zero. That's how many losses the Buckeyes had a year ago while going 12-0. Ranked No. 2 in the Associated Press media poll this year, a lot of people think they may just put up another zero in the loss column in 2013.
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EASTON, Mass. - On the final day of competition at the New England Outdoor Championships at Stonehill College, the MIT women's outdoor track and field team came in 13th place with 20.5 points. The Engineers finished just ahead of Amherst College, who had 20 points, and right behind Sacred Heart and Quinnipiac, who tied for 11th place, with 23 points.
First up for MIT were sophomore Cindy Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and junior Alexandra Taylor (Harbor Springs, Mich.) in the 800m. Huang crossed the line in 13th place with a time of 2:17.23, while Taylor was 19th in 2:18.92. Senior Brooke Johnson (Shoreham, N.Y.) came in third place in the 1500m with a 4:30.75, earning six points towards MIT's final score, and junior Louise van den Heuvel (Nashua, N.H.) was 26th in 4:43.54.
In the 3000m Steeplechase, junior Martina de Geus (Los Altos, Calif.) came in third place with her time of 10:38.58, cutting off almost 15 seconds from her second place-finishing performance at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championship last month. Sophomore Preethi Vaidyanathan (South Windsor, Conn.) four-way tied for 13th in the High Jump with a jump of 5-01.00.
Senior Lauren Kuntz (Pittsburgh, Pa.) led the way for the Engineers in the Pole Vault with her third place finish when she cleared the bar in 12-05.50. Freshman Cimran Virdi (Walnut Creek, Calif.) tied for sixth with a vault of 11-05.75, while sophomore Joanna Chen (Richland, Wash.) five-way tied for ninth in 10-11.75. Sophomore Michelle Johnson (Glendora, Calif.) finished in tenth place in the Triple Jump with a jump of 37-01.75.
In the Shot Put, freshman Isabella Stuopis (Amherst N.H.) came ninth with her throw of 42-10.75, improving on her personal record and her freshman record, and, in the Discus Throw, junior Christine Labaza (Rochester, Mich.) was 12th with a throw of 120-02. Sophomore Ashley Wheeler (Milford, N.H.) came 15th in the Hammer Throw with a 146-05 and, to end the meet, classmate Tilly Taylor (South Deerfield, Mass.) came 14th in the Javelin Throw with a 115-10.
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Siemens PLM Software announced Solid Edge software with Synchronous Technology 2. This release is the second version of Solid Edge to incorporate Siemens PLM Software's breakthrough synchronous technology, the first history-free, feature-based modeling capability that serves as a fundamental tool in helping customers react to the market faster.
"We were looking for something very flexible, but also something with the full power of 3D feature modeling for modifying machine components," said Ben Fune, process engineering manager, American Renolit Corp. "We found the best of both worlds in Solid Edge with synchronous technology."
Solid Edge is a core component of the Velocity Series portfolio and combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with the precise control of dimension-driven design. The latest release extends synchronous technology deeper in the product with improved part and assembly modeling as well as a new sheet metal application. With this release, Siemens PLM Software also announces a new built-in FEA tool and PDM integration leveraging the latest Microsoft SharePoint platforms.
"The Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 release showcases the expansion of Siemens PLM Software's groundbreaking synchronous technology into additional part and assembly modeling areas, including intelligent sheet metal design," said Dr. Ken Versprille, PLM Research Director, CPDA. "In our in-depth review done last year, we positioned synchronous technology as a major advance in solids modeling and predicted its positive impact on the industry. This latest release proves us correct based on the strength and robustness it demonstrates as a modeling approach. End user interviews attest to the benefits they have achieved in reducing their design cycle times. The modeling advancements found in Solid Edge, matched with the introduction of a new mid-range FEA application, Solid Edge Simulation, and continued implementation of Solid Edge's Insight data management tool atop the latest in Microsoft's SharePoint, offers a win-win scenario for both Solid Edge and its users."
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Solid Edge now applies synchronous technology to sheet metal design, creating a feature-based, history-free 3D design application for modeling straight brake sheet metal parts.
Sheet metal is the second application to leverage the power of synchronous technology (CAM Express leveraging synchronous technology was first announced last December) and further validates its extensibility. Synchronous technology brings new levels of productivity to the sheet metal environment so users can create models with less pre-planning, make changes with unbounded flexibility, and reuse and edit supplier data more effectively.
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Solid Edge Simulation is a new optional analysis tool embedded into the CAD system that allows design validation of parts and assemblies earlier in the product development process for quicker time to market and reduced physical prototyping costs. It is based on proven Femap software finite element modeling and NX Nastran solver technology built into the Solid Edge user interface. It is easy for designers and engineers to use and promotes increased use of simulation within Solid Edge, fostering design innovation. Solid Edge Simulation also leverages synchronous technology to ease simulation model preparation and speed design refinements.
"These economic times force engineers to do more by themselves than ever before," said Bill McClure, vice president of product development for Velocity Series, Siemens PLM Software. "By embedding FEA into Solid Edge, more designs can be simulated in less time with minimal need to outsource analysis. This allows companies to respond to their customers faster with improved quality and lower costs."
Solid Edge now provides key enhancements to improve the embedded Insight design data management application, a key element of the Velocity Series strategy for scalable PDM, which also includes the Teamcenter Express platform.
"Solid Edge Insight running on SharePoint Server adds design data management to enterprise collaboration for small and mid-sized businesses," said Don Richardson, director, Global Innovation and PLM Industry Strategy, Microsoft. "Siemens PLM Software, a long-time valued partner of Microsoft, has been utilizing SharePoint services since 2001, and continues to leverage the latest Microsoft technologies in its PLM applications to meet the business needs of customers."
Solid Edge with Insight leverages the latest Microsoft SharePoint platform for improved collaboration, faster release workflows and enhanced security capabilities offered by Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Solid Edge with Insight using the first version of SharePoint was introduced to the market in 2001 and today has more than 1000 customers. Moving Insight to the latest platform helps users reduce PDM deployment and ongoing support costs. Microsoft SharePoint is especially popular with small to medium size businesses (SMBs) and now totals over 100 million seats worldwide.
Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2 is scheduled to ship this summer.
Commentary By Jeffrey Rowe, Editor
One of the most controversial and written-about mechanical CAD software developments last year arguably was Synchronous Technology that found its way into both Solid Edge and its big brother, NX. Given that it was a "Version 1" of the technology, it was stable, but was not implemented through all design environments within the Solid Edge product. That deficiency, however, has been addressed this time around, and will continue to be addressed and further implemented in future releases.
I was given a briefing a couple of weeks ago on Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2, and I'll discuss some of the areas that most impressed me – namely sheet metal, simulation, and product data management.
Synchronous Technology – The Next Phase
A little over a year ago Siemens PLM Software announced a new CAD methodology that it claimed to be the biggest MCAD breakthrough in a decade called Synchronous Technology. That was a pretty big claim, because of what it lacked in terms of real details that wouldn't be disclosed until a month later, although the possibilities and implications were pretty intriguing.
Using NX and Solid Edge as vehicles, Siemens PLM Software became the latest MCAD company to jump on the bandwagon espousing the advantages of non-history-based design methods. Synchronous Technology actually had a predecessor; Direct Modeling (really, direct model editing) technology.
While most parametric modelers, such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Inventor rely on feature history, an increasing number do not. Notable non-history-based modeling packages include those from CoCreate, SpaceClaim, IronCAD, and Kubotek. Parametric, history-based MCAD has dominated the market since the late 1980s. However, several vendors in the past couple of years have gotten made non-history-based claims.
Simply put, Synchronous Technology combines the speed and flexibility of explicit modeling with the precise control of parameterized design. Theoretically, models can be developed faster because designs no longer require preplanning. Changes are more flexible since you can apply 3D driving dimensions to completed models. The capability in Solid Edge called Live Rules is what makes all this possible because it maintains model integrity throughout design iterations. For example, during a design change, models are not regenerated so performance is enhanced.
Even though it does have its own inherent limitations, probably one of the biggest advantages of a non-history based approach is that it lets you make changes late in the design process, so they are not bound by the constraints and complications that a history tree can impose. Also, a non-history-based system can make data import easier, since you don't have to worry about the overhead of dealing with a history tree from a different system. Therein lies another one of the biggest advantages for a non-history-based approach -- 3D model data can be imported from just about any source for editing without the need for a translator/converter.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has officially announced the seeds and site selections for the 2013 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round. Each of the nine locations will feature a five-team double-elimination tournament May 9 – 13.
Opening Round champions will join host Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) at the 57th annual Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series at Harris Field in Lewiston, Idaho, May 24 – 31.
Twenty-nine teams earned automatic berths to the Opening Round field by placing first or second at their respective conference/independent/unaffiliated group tournaments or by winning a regular-season championship. An additional 16 at-large selections – determined by the final NAIA Baseball Coaches' Top 25 Poll released May 5 – round out the field.
Ten programs within the field are making their first-ever appearance at the Opening Round, while seven squads have appeared in every event since the format began in 2009. Embry-Riddle (Fla.), Lee (Tenn.) and Oklahoma City highlight the group with four Opening Round championships, while Lubbock Christian (Texas) and Tennessee Wesleyan own three each.
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|Claremore Bracket
|1. Lubbock Christian (Texas)
|Hosted by Rogers State University - Claremore, Okla.
|2. Bellevue (Neb.)
|3. Lyon (Ark.)
|4. Rogers State (Okla.)
|5. Midland (Neb.)
|Cleveland Bracket
|1. Lee (Tenn.)
|Hosted by Lee University- Cleveland, Tenn.
|2. Madonna (Mich.)
|3. LSU Shreveport (La.)
|4. Avila (Mo.)
|5. Grand View (Iowa)
|Daytona Beach Bracket
|1. Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
|Hosted by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, Fla.
|2. Concordia (Calif.)
|3. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
|4. Ave Maria (Fla.)
|5. Martin Methodist (Tenn.)
|Hattiesburg Bracket
|1. Northwood (Texas)
|Hosted by William Carey University - Hattiesburg, Miss.
|2. Oklahoma Baptist
|3. William Carey (Miss.)
|4. Central Methodist (Mo.)
|5. South Carolina Beaufort
|Joliet Bracket
|1. York (Neb.)
|Hosted by the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Joliet, Ill.
|2. Cumberland (Tenn.)
|3. Judson (Ill.)
|4. Mayville State (N.D.)
|5. Trinity Christian (Ill.)
|Kingsport Bracket
|1. Tennessee Wesleyan
|Hosted by Appalachian Athletic Conference - Kingsport, Tenn.
|2. Point Park (Pa.)
|3. Missouri Baptist
|4. Taylor (Ind.)
|5. Benedictine-Springfield (Ill.)
|Montgomery Bracket
|1. Faulkner (Ala.)
|Hosted by Faulkner University - Montgomery, Ala.
|2. Texas Wesleyan
|3. Georgetown (Ky.)
|4. Indiana Tech
|5. Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio)
|Oklahoma City Bracket
|1. Oklahoma City
|Hosted by Oklahoma City University - Oklahoma City, Okla.
|2. Sterling (Kan.)
|3. Science & Arts (Okla.)
|4. Northwestern (Iowa)
|5. Jamestown (N.D.)
|Santa Clarita Bracket
|1. The Master's (Calif.)
|Hosted by The Master's College, Santa Clarita, Calif.
|2. Cal State San Marcos
|3. San Diego Christian (Calif.)
|4. Tabor (Kan.)
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg
*** Another big week: As the country returns from its long Thanksgiving weekend, as everyone obsesses over those White House party crashers, and as the strange Tiger Woods story dominates the water-cooler talk, President Obama embarks on yet another important week in his young presidency. In fact, it very well could rank right up there as his most important week so far, given that it involves the two issues that could make or break him: war and jobs. Today, he meets with Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to discuss (among other things) Afghanistan and climate change. Then, tomorrow night at West Point, Obama delivers his long-awaited announcement on Afghanistan. On Thursday comes the president's jobs summit, and on Friday, he talks jobs in Allentown, PA as the new unemployment numbers are released. And just to add to the agenda, the Senate this week begins debating its health-care bill. "Is this a historic week? Yes," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said yesterday, per the Wall Street Journal. "It's a historic week within a historic year."
*** Previewing tomorrow night's speech: As for Obama's Tuesday night speech on Afghanistan, the New York Times front-pages that in addition to announcing sending some extra 30,000 troops there, the president will lay out a time frame for winding down the war. "It's accurate to say that he will be more explicit about both goals and time frame than has been the case before and than has been part of the public discussion," a senior official tells the paper. "He wants to give a clear sense of both the time frame for action and how the war will eventually wind down." Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that the U.S. is offering Pakistan a strategic partnership that includes additional military and economic assistance. "'We can't succeed [in Afghanistan] without Pakistan," a senior administration official involved in the White House review said. 'You have to differentiate between public statements and reality. There is nobody who is under any illusions about this.'" The president, it seems, has so many audiences he'll be speaking to in tomorrow's speech. From the domestic folks (like many in his own party who don't want a troop escalation) to the leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as NATO allies, he's got to simultaneously reassure folks in America he's got a plan to get out while letting the world know we're not going anywhere anytime soon. Is that even plausible, let alone possible?
*** Reaching the (jobs) summit: As for Thursday's job summit, the White House yesterday released a partial list of the approximately 130 folks who will attend. The list includes Google's Eric Schmidt, AT&T's Randall Stevenson, Qwest's Surya Mohapatra, Fed Ex's Fred Smith, Comcast's Brian Roberts, Disney's Bob Iger, Boeing's James McNerney, Dow's Andrew Livens, economists Paul Krugman (who today offers what he'd like to see to create jobs) and Joe Stiglitz, and union leaders Anna Burger and Leo Gerard. "The Obama administration and U.S. business leaders will meet at the White House this week to ponder ways to boost employment. Their ideas, though, don't overlap much," the Wall Street Journal says. "Businesses of all sizes are brimming with proposals they say would spur economic growth. The most commonly voiced are tax cuts and boosting access to credit… But many of the nostrums floated by business would increase spending or reduce tax receipts, unpalatable moves for the White House as the nation's huge deficit becomes a political liability." The challenge for the White House on this event: to make sure it isn't simply a well-named photo-op. Can something concrete come out of this summit in a timely fashion?
*** Shame, shame, shame: And just in case you thought today -- as well as this week -- wasn't busy enough, here is this story: "The Obama administration on Monday plans to announce a campaign to pressure mortgage companies to reduce payments for many more troubled homeowners, as evidence mounts that a $75 billion taxpayer-financed effort aimed at stemming foreclosures is foundering. 'The banks are not doing a good enough job,' Michael S. Barr, Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions, said in an interview Friday. 'Some of the firms ought to be embarrassed, and they will be.' Even as lenders have in recent months accelerated the pace at which they are reducing mortgage payments for borrowers, a vast majority of loans modified through the program remain in a trial stage lasting up to five months, and only a tiny fraction have been made permanent."
*** Guns a-blazing: In fact, it seems the White House has used the day after the holiday weekend to come out guns a-blazing on all the big issues. This morning, it has released a video on health care that features Vice President Biden asking whom do you trust -- the defenders of the status quo or the nurses and doctors who are backing reform? Speaking of the vice president, the New York Times magazine yesterday ran a lengthy profile of Biden, which called him the second-most powerful VP ever behind Cheney. (And before Cheney, didn't folks argue that VP Gore was the most influential VP in some time?)
*** Forget about Huck in 2012? This news can't help Mike Huckabee's 2012 chances, if he's thinking about another White House run. The suspect in yesterday's slaying of four Washington state police officers "was paroled in 2000 after then-Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his 95-year prison sentence," the Washington Post says. Huckabee has released this statement: "Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State. He was recommended for and received a commutation of his original sentence from 1990. This commutation making him parole eligible and was paroled by the parole board once they determined he met the conditions at that time. He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held him. It appears that he has continued to have a string of criminal and psychotic behavior but was not kept incarcerated by either state. This is a horrible and tragic event and if found and convicted the offender should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
*** Remember Wayne Dumond? NBC's Chris Donovan reminds us of another controversial commutation that hurt Huckabee during last year's presidential contest. "Wayne Dumond, a rapist who was convicted, sentenced in Arkansas, the parole board voted not to parole him in September of--in August of '96. You announced that you were going to commute his sentence, and then the parole board reversed course and agreed to parole him, and you supported their decision to parole. He was, was freed, left the state, killed and raped someone else in Missouri. Do you regret supporting that parole?" the late Tim Russert asked Huckabee on "Meet the Press" in 2007. Huckabee answered, "You know, looking back, certainly I wish that I had known more than I knew, but here's what I knew: I never commuted his sentence; his sentence was commuted by my predecessor. When he was parole eligible, he had not yet made parole. And I supported that he was parole-eligible. Later, the parole board did, in fact, give him their parole, supervised." Remember, Huckabee never truly received front-runner scrutiny in 2008; his candidacy flamed out just as news organizations were preparing more detailed looks at his pardons and other controversies -- including the petty cash-like expenses he seemed to regularly charge the state when he was governor.
*** Gone in 15 minutes? A final word on Tiger Woods, the party crashers, and Balloon Boy: It was more than 40 years ago when Andy Warhol helped coin his "15 minutes of fame" phrase. Forty years! And the phrase gets truer by the minute. Every time we think we've dug deeper into the abyss of tabloid nuttiness, we as a society somehow go one step lower. Let's start with those party crashers: The fact is they did it to get on TV (!!!) -- not just for interviews, but to get a show. While many are rightfully outraged about the security breech in the White House, realize that the folks assigned to protect the president deal with far more unknown members of the public when, say, the president works a ropeline. At least the party crashers went through a magnetometer, something many town hall attendees do NOT. But what really has so many folks in the intelligentsia so up-in-arms about this episode is that they may get rewarded for this behavior which, in turn, will only inspire the NEXT person to do something even crazier to get a reality TV series. It's truly bizarre stuff. And it's in that same vein we bring up Tiger Woods. Why did Tiger send out such a detailed pushback? Because of all the reporting by TMZ, an entity that pays sources, one of whom may ACTUALLY have been an EMT who came to Tiger's care at the scene of the accident. So whether it's for fame or fortune, everybody wants their 15 minutes of something. Wherever the bar was, it seemed to get lowered just a tad over the weekend.
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Presidents typically have a short window of opportunity in their second terms to ink major accomplishments, and the next few weeks will offer President Barack Obama a key test of his ability to do just that.
Congress returns from its recess Monday to begin work on central components of Obama's second-term agenda. Their work over the next two months could begin to cement, just four months into Obama's second term, the president's political legacy.
A grand fiscal deal, immigration reform and tougher gun laws topped Obama's second term agenda when he outlined them during a Dec. 30 appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
All three of those priorities have, so far, eluded Obama over the past few months; whether the president can manage a victory on any of these issues could be decided in coming weeks.
Obama will release his own budget on Wednesday, following on the heels of divergent House GOP and Senate Democratic budgets that the respective chambers passed before last month's holiday recess. The broad outlines of the president's budget were parceled out by the White House on Friday, detailing proposals to make some cuts in entitlement benefits as well as calls for additional taxes on the wealthy. The president's budget essentially maintained the "grand bargain" framework he offered to House Republicans last year.
Read more: Obama to offer compromise budget to Republicans
And as lawmakers face a mid-May deadline to extend the government's borrowing authority, or risk default on the national debt, they'll look to the new proposal for any sign of breaking the fiscal logjam that's characterized much of the president's first term.
Republicans were quick to dismiss the president's call for new taxes, something they have said is off the table in the wake of the fiscal cliff deal at the end of the year which included the expiration of many of the Bush-era tax cuts. "At some point we need to solve our spending problem, and what the president has offered would leave us with a budget that never balances," House Speaker John Boehner said on Friday. The GOP's stiff resistance amid the coming debt ceiling deadline would make for a tense series of wrangling between the White House and Capitol Hill on its own.
Fiscal battles over tax hikes and automatic "sequester" spending cuts have taken their toll on Obama's popularity; U.S. adults narrowly voiced a favorable opinion of Obama, 49 percent to 45 percent, in a Quinnipiac University poll last week.
But two other cornerstones of the president's second-term domestic agenda – gun legislation and immigration reform – could sink or swim as early as this month.
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President Barack Obama walks to his car as he arrives at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Calif., on April 3, 2013.
A bipartisan group of senators has been working over the holiday recess to put the finishing touches on comprehensive immigration reform legislation that would give undocumented immigrants a pathway to U.S. citizenship. After having secured support for a guest worker component of the plan from both business and labor groups over the recess, formal legislation could come as soon as this week.
But Obama himself seemed to acknowledge during a fundraiser last week in California that immigration could face much smoother sailing in Congress than his other initiative, stricter gun laws.
"I am very optimistic that we get immigration reform done in the next few months," he said. "It's going to be tougher to get better gun legislation to reduce gun violence through the Senate and the House that so many of us I think want to see, particularly after the tragedy in Newtown. But I still think it can get done if people are activated and involved."
To that end, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said before the holiday recess that he planned to introduce new gun legislation this month. But the base legislation would not include a measure to reinstate the assault weapons ban; it would, however, look to require background sales for all gun purchases.
That proposal isn't even guaranteed to survive in the Senate. A group of conservative senators have vowed to require Democrats to produce the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, meaning the legislation would need some degree of Republican support – which is very much an open question.
Moreover, victory in the Senate could mean very little given the gauntlet any of these three initiatives would face in the House. Speaker John Boehner, the top House Republican, has offered little more than assurances that the House would "consider' any legislation on guns or immigration sent its way by the president.
And, following the legislating this spring and summer, the window for further Obama accomplishments will begin to close as the rhythms of the 2014 and 2016 elections subsume a lame-duck presidency. Even as he spoke at a fundraiser on Wednesday for those 2014 elections, the president asserted his commitment to trying to achieve as much as possible before the campaign season takes over.
"My intention here is to try to get as much done with the Republican Party over the next two years as I can, because we can't have perpetual campaigns," Obama said. "And so I mean what I say: I am looking to find areas of common ground with Republicans every single day."
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With budgets on the table, Washington divide remains as wide as ever
Graham sees immigration deal as prelude to budget 'grand bargain'
Progress on guns? Fresh talks with GOP ahead of Senate action


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Allan Isfan and Rick O'Connor are hosting another Founders & Funders – Ottawa on December 3, 2009. This is a great event for the Ottawa community. The goal continues to be connecting the people who start companies with the people that fund them. It's a very simple piece of the social fabric in the emerging technology ecosystem. And it's fantastic to see the Ottawa crew being significantly more active.
The event is "invitation only" and is limited in terms of availability. That is there are a limited number of available spaces, and Allan and Rick are currating the guest list like any good dinner party. If you are a startup in Ottawa, or you are a funder drop them a note.
Just a sidebar on "funder", this means active funders, not necessarily just high net worth individuals. The event is best for individuals that are active, i.e., have deployed capital in the past 18 months. And if you haven't deployed capital, you have a very good reason (waiting for previous investments to mature; trying to hit an earn out, etc.).
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