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Using desktop computers, ORNL is preparing to establish a scientific "bookkeeping operation for bioenergy". Ed Uberbacher, who leads the Genome Analysis and Systems Modeling Group of ORNL's Biosciences Division, says that Oak Ridge researchers have the experience to keep track of data, experimental equipment and chemicals by using Nautilus™ a software system produced by Thermo Electron Corp. for managing, sharing and protecting laboratory information. "We developed database technologies for DOE's Shewanella Foundation to allow researchers investigating Shewanella oneidensis bacteria to share data and compare the sequences of genomes of bacteria that respond differently to toxic metals in their environment," Uberbacher says. In this way, researchers might be able to identify networks of genes and proteins that destroy contaminants. To build a bioinformatics infrastructure for bioenergy research, Uberbacher's GASM group is working with Igor Jouline of the University of Tennessee and former ORNL researcher Ying Xu and Bob Scott, both of the University of Georgia. The researchers have broad expertise in developing models of microbial gene regulatory systems. The research is structured to enable partner investigators to work together on experiments and share and compare data they generate using different instruments and reagents at different sites. The experiments to advance bioenergy will use a variety of tools, such as electron microscopes, fluorescent microscopes, microarrays, mass spectrometers and computers. Each information system must track biochemical assays, image data sets, expression microarrays and mass spectra. Researchers in the GASM Group and ORNL's Computer Science and Mathematics Division established a Laboratory Information Management System for DOE's Genomics: GTL Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems involving researchers at ORNL and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The system helps researchers identify and characterize proteins in Rhodopseudomonas palustris, a bacterium that can produce hydrogen depending upon how it is grown. Researchers are growing R. pal microbes in different ways with special tags, extracting their protein complexes, identifying and characterizing the protein complexes using mass spectrometers and imaging tools, and sending mass spectra and other data to computational biologists for interpretation. The researchers, who decode the interactions of 16 target proteins per week, are trying to determine which protein complexes in R. pal produce hydrogen or carry out some other function of interest to DOE. The center promises to characterize these protein groups for other microbes of interest to DOE and outside collaborators. ORNL has provided internal funding to develop data exchanges and networks for ethanologens, microbes that ferment sugar to alcohol. "The Laboratory Information Management System provides a model on how to undertake a huge bookkeeping job for a host of partners, somewhat like what Wal-Mart does to keep track of inventory at all its stores," Uberbacher says. "The job is not glamorous, but it is essential to the accuracy of every project's research results to keep track of each piece of the avalanche of data associated with all the experiments." —Carolyn Krause |
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Philip Agee
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Born | July 19, 1935 Tacoma, Florida |
Died | January 7, 2008 (aged 72) Cuba |
Education | University of Notre Dame University of Florida |
Occupation | Central Intelligence Agency |
Spouse(s) | Giselle Roberge Agee |
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (July 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008)[1] was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary,[2] detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices.[3][4][5] A co-founder of CovertAction Quarterly, he died in Cuba in January 2008.[6]
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Early years [edit]
Agee was born in Tacoma, Florida.[7] He graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1956, and attended the University of Florida College of Law.[7]
Leaving CIA [edit]
Agee stated that his Roman Catholic social conscience had made him increasingly uncomfortable with his work by the late 1960s leading to his disillusionment with the CIA and its support for authoritarian governments across Latin America. In the book Agee condemned the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City and wrote that this was the immediate event precipitating his leaving the agency.[citation needed]
While Agee claimed that the CIA was "very pleased with his work",[2] offered him "another promotion"[2] and his superior "was startled"[2] when Agee told him about his plans to resign, the anti-communist journalist John Barron claims that Agee's resignation was forced "for a variety of reasons, including his irresponsible drinking, continuous and vulgar propositioning of embassy wives, and inability to manage his finances".[8]
Agee was accused by U.S. President George H. W. Bush of being responsible for the death of Richard Welch, a Harvard-educated classicist who was murdered by the Revolutionary Organization 17 November while heading the CIA Station in Athens. Bush had directed the CIA from 1976 to 1977.[9]
KGB/Cuban intelligence involvement [edit]
Oleg Kalugin, former head of the KGB's Counterintelligence Directorate, states that in 1973 Agee approached the KGB's resident in Mexico City and offered a "treasure trove of information". The KGB was too suspicious to accept his offer.[10]
Kalugin states that:
" | Agee then went to the Cubans, who welcomed him with open arms...The Cubans shared Agee's information with us. But as I sat in my office in Moscow reading reports about the growing revelations coming from Agee, I cursed our officers for turning away such a prize.[10] | " |
For his part, Agee claimed in his later work On the Run that he had no intention of ever working for the KGB, which he still considered the enemy, and that he worked with the Cubans to assist left-wing and labor organizations in Latin America against fascism and CIA meddling in political affairs.[citation needed]
While Agee was writing Inside the Company: CIA Diary, the KGB kept in contact with him through Edgar Anatolyevich Cheporov, a London correspondent of the Novosti News Agency.[11]
Agee was accused of receiving up to $1 million in payments from the Cuban intelligence service. He denied the accusations, which were first made by a high-ranking Cuban intelligence officer and defector in a 1992 Los Angeles Times report.[12]
A later Los Angeles Times article stated that Agee posed as a CIA Inspector General in order to target a member of the CIA's Mexico City station on behalf of Cuban intelligence. According to the article, Agee was identified during a meeting by a CIA case officer.[13]
Book published [edit]
Because of legal problems in the United States, Inside the Company was first published in 1975 in Britain, while Agee was living in London.[11] Playboy Magazine (August 1975) published excerpts from his book in the article titled "What You Still Don't Know About The CIA! Ex-Company Man Philip Agee Tells All".
Agee acknowledged that "Representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba also gave important encouragement at a time when I doubted that I would be able to find the additional information I needed."[2]
The London Evening News called Inside the Company: CIA Diary "a frightening picture of corruption, pressure, assassination and conspiracy". The Economist called the book "inescapable reading". Miles Copeland, Jr., a former CIA station chief in Cairo, said the book was "as complete an account of spy work as is likely to be published anywhere"[14] and it is "an authentic account of how an ordinary American or British 'case officer' operates...All of it...is presented with deadly accuracy."[15]
The book was delayed for six months before being published in the United States; it became an immediate best seller.[11]
Inside the Company [edit]
Inside the Company identified 250 alleged CIA officers and agents.[3] The officers and agents, all personally known to Agee, are listed in an appendix to the book.[16] While written as a diary, it is actually a reconstruction of events based on Agee's memory and his subsequent research.[17]
Agee writes that his first overseas assignment was in 1960 to Ecuador where his primary mission was to force a diplomatic break between Ecuador and Cuba, no matter what the cost to Ecuador's shaky stability, using bribery, intimidation, bugging, and forgery. Agee spent four years in Ecuador penetrating Ecuadorian politics. He states that his actions subverted and destroyed the political fabric of Ecuador.[5]
Agee helped bug the United Arab Republic code room in Montevideo, Uruguay, with two contact microphones placed on the ceiling of the room below.[5]
On December 12, 1965 Agee explains how he visited senior Uruguayan military and police officers at a Montevideo police headquarters. He realized that the screaming he heard from a nearby cell was the torturing of a Uruguayan, whose name he had given to the police as someone to watch. The Uruguayan senior officers simply turned up a radio report of a soccer game to drown out the screams.[5]
Agee also ran CIA operations within the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games and he witnessed the events of the Tlatelolco massacre.[citation needed]
Agee stated that President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970–1976) of Mexico and President Alfonso López Michelsen (1974–1978) of Colombia were CIA collaborators or agents.[18]
Following this he details how he resigned from the CIA and began writing the book, conducting research in Cuba, London and Paris. During this time he alleges he was being spied on by the CIA.[5][18][19]
Expulsion [edit]
Agee became something of a minor celebrity in the United Kingdom after the publication of Inside the Company. Agee revealed the identities of dozens of CIA agents in their London station.[11] After numerous requests from the American government as well as an MI6 report that blamed Agee's work for the execution of two MI6 agents in Poland, a request was put in to deport Agee from the UK.[citation needed] Although Agee fought this and was supported by dozens of left wing MPs, journalists, and private citizens, he eventually departed from the UK on June 3, 1977, and traveled to the Netherlands.[20] Agee was also eventually expelled from the Netherlands, France, West Germany and Italy.
On January 12, 1975, Agee testified before the second Bertrand Russell Tribunal in Brussels that in 1960 he had conducted personal name checks of Venezuelan employees for a Venezuelan subsidiary of what is now Exxon. Exxon was "letting the CIA assist in employment decisions, and my guess is that those name checks...are continuing to this day." Agee stated that the CIA customarily performed this service for subsidiaries of large U.S. corporations throughout Latin America. An Exxon spokesman denied Agee's accusations.[15]
In 1978, Agee and a small group of his supporters began publishing the Covert Action Information Bulletin, which promoted "a worldwide campaign to destabilize the CIA through exposure of its operations and personnel." Mitrokhin states that the bulletin had help from both the KGB and the Cuban DGI.[20] The January 1979 issue of Agee's Bulletin published the infamous FM 30-31B,[21] which the US government claims is a forgery.[citation needed]
In 1978 and 1979, Agee published the two volumes of Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe and Dirty Work: The CIA in Africa which contained information of 2000 CIA personnel.[20]
Agee told Swiss journalist Peter Studer that "The CIA is plainly on the wrong side, that is, the capitalistic side. I approve KGB activities, communist activities in general. Between the overdone activities that the CIA initiates and the more modest activities of the KGB, there is absolutely no comparison."[22][23]
Agee's US passport was revoked in 1979.[24][25] In 1980, Maurice Bishop's government conferred citizenship of Grenada on Agee, and he took up residence in that island. The collapse of the Grenada Revolution removed that safe haven, and Agee then was given a passport by the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. After a change of government there, this passport was revoked in 1990, and he was given a German passport, the nationality of his wife, ballet dancer Giselle Roberge. They later lived in Germany and Cuba. Agee was later readmitted to both the U.S. and United Kingdom.[26] Agee's own description of his odyssey was published in his autobiography, On the Run, in 1987.
Intelligence Identities Protection Act [edit]
In 1982, the United States Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA), legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works. The law would later figure in the investigation into the Valerie Plame scandal into whether Bush administration officials leaked a case officer's name to the media as an act of retaliation against her husband.[citation needed]
Late activities [edit]
Until his death, Agee ran a website in Havana, Cubalinda.com[27][28] which uses loopholes in American law to arrange holidays to Cuba for American citizens, who are generally prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy Act statute of US law from spending money in Cuba. In the 1980s NameBase founder Daniel Brandt had taught Agee how to use computers and computer databases for his research.[29] According to an author's biography attached to an essay by Agee in March 2007 in the Alexander Cockburn-edited magazine Counterpunch, Agee "has lived since 1978 with his wife in Hamburg, Germany. He travels frequently to Cuba and South America for solidarity and business activities." The Cubalinda travel service was begun in 2000.
On December 16, 2007, Agee was admitted to a hospital in Havana, and surgery was performed on him due to perforated ulcers. His wife said on January 9, 2008 that he had died in Cuba on January 7 and had been cremated.[1]
Bibliography [edit]
- Agee, Philip (1975). Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-004007-2.
- Agee, Philip; Louis Wolf (Editor) (1978). Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe. Lyle Stuart. ISBN 0-88029-132-X. ASIN B000I8NARO.
- Agee, Philip; Louis Wolf (Editor) (January 1979). Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa. Lyle Stuart. ISBN 0-8184-0294-6.
- Agee, Philip (June 1987). On the Run. L. Stuart. ISBN 0-8184-0419-1.
- Agee, Philip (1982). White Paper Whitewash. Deep Cover Books. ISBN 0-940380-00-5.
See also [edit]
- Frank Snepp
- John Stockwell
- Ralph McGehee
- Lindsay Moran
- Victor Marchetti
- L. Fletcher Prouty
- Peter Wright
References [edit]
- ^ a b Will Weissert, "Ex-CIA Agent Philip Agee Dead in Cuba", Associated Press (sfgate.com), January 9, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e p. 551
- ^ a b Andrew, Christopher; Vasili Mitrokhin (2000). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00312-5. p. 230
- ^ Agee, Philip (1975). Inside The Company: CIA Diary. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-004007-2.
- ^ a b c d e Kapstein, Jonathan (July 28 1975). "Philip Agee: The spy who came in and told; Inside the Company: CIA Diary". Business Week: 12.
- ^ "Former CIA agent Agee dies in Cuba at age 72". msnbc.com. 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ^ a b Joe Holley (10 January 2008). "Philip Agee, 72; Agent Who Turned Against CIA". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 November 2010. "Mr. Agee was born in Tacoma, Fla., attended Jesuit schools and graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1956. He told the New York Times in 1974 that the CIA attempted to recruit him while he was at Notre Dame, offering a package plan that included Air Force duty. He said no but reconsidered while studying law at the University of Florida."
- ^ Barron, John (1983). KGB Today: The Hidden Hand. Readers Digest Assn. pp. 227–230. ISBN 0-88349-164-8.
- ^ Holley, Joe (2008-01-09). "Philip Agee, 72; Agent Who Turned Against CIA". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ a b Andrew p. 230, referencing Kalugin, Oleg (1995). Spymaster: The Highest-ranking KGB Officer Ever to Break His Silence. Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85685-101-X. p. 191-192 Andrew states: "The KGB files noted by Mitrokhin describe Agee as an agent of the Cuban DGI and give details of his collaboration with the KGB, but do not formally list him as a KGB or DGI agent. vol. 6, ch. 14, parts 1,2,3; vol. 6, app. 1, part 22."
- ^ a b c d Andrew, p. 231
- ^ "Former CIA agent attempts to draw U.S. tourists to Cuba over Internet". CNN.com. 2000-06-25. Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ "Once Again, Ex-Agent Philip Agee Eludes CIA's Grasp", Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1997
- ^ Andrew, p. 231 referencing Agee, Philip (June 1987). On the Run. L. Stuart. ISBN 0-8184-0419-1. p. 111-112, 120-121.
- ^ a b "Book details CIA activities". Facts on File World News Digest: 37 B3. January 25 1975.
- ^ Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Allen Lane, 1975, pp 599-624.
- ^ Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Allen Lane, 1975, p 9.
- ^ a b "Secret agent; Inside the Company: CIA Diary. By Philip Agee. Penguin. 640 pages. 95p". The Economist: 87. January 11 1975.
- ^ Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Allen Lane, 1975, pp 573-583
- ^ a b c Andrew, p. 232-233.
- ^ CovertAction, Number 3, January 1979.
- ^ Horowitz, David (December 1991). "The Politics of Public Television" (– Scholar search). Commentary Magazine 92 (6).[dead link]
- ^ William E. Simon (December 1980). "You can't trust the news". The Saturday Evening Post.
- ^ Andrew and Mitrokhin, Sword and Shield, p. 231, incorrectly states Agee's passport was revoked in 1981.
- ^ "U.S. Revokes Agee Passport". Facts on File World News Digest: 991 C2. December 31 1979.
- ^ Duncan Campbell (2007-01-10). "The spy who stayed out in the cold". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
- ^ "Cuba Travel Agency". cubalinda.com. Retrieved 2006-07-30.
- ^ "Spy's Tourist Agency". cvni.net. Retrieved 2006-07-30.
- ^ Hand, Mark (January 3, 2003). "Searching for Daniel Brandt". CounterPunch
Further reading [edit]
- Andrew, Christopher; Mitrokhin, Vasili. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. Basic Books (2005)
- 1935 births
- 2008 deaths
- University of Florida alumni
- American memoirists
- American foreign policy writers
- American political writers
- American expatriates in Cuba
- American spies
- American whistleblowers
- Deaths from ulcers
- Espionage writers
- Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency
- People of the Central Intelligence Agency
- University of Notre Dame alumni

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This installment of "Meet the Project Founder" features Apache Bigtop founder and PMC Chair/VP Roman Shaposhnik.
What led you to your project idea(s)?
Conceptually, Apache Bigtop can actually be traced as far back as me working at Sun Microsystems in 2007-2008. I was assisting the team responsible for coming up with a 100% community-driven, open source Solaris distribution that could also be used as a basis for an enterprise-grade commercial product offering (which eventually became OpenSolaris). I then joined Yahoo! Inc. as a manager of a small team of extremely talented engineers tasked with integration efforts around Yahoo's internal cloud offering based on Hadoop. Our project was called HIT (Hadoop Integration Testing) and we were known as "HIT-men".
How-to: Configure Eclipse for Hadoop Contributions
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Contributing to Apache Hadoop or writing custom pluggable modules requires modifying Hadoop's source code. While it is perfectly fine to use a text editor to modify Java source, modern IDEs simplify navigation and debugging of large Java projects like Hadoop significantly. Eclipse is a popular choice thanks to its broad user base and multitude of available plugins.
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Fresh and Hot: HBaseCon 2013 Schedule Finalized!
The schedule/agenda grid for HBaseCon 2013 (rapidly approaching: June 13 in San Francisco) is a thing of beauty.
If you lacked motivation to register up until this point, we think that this session line-up will convince you otherwise. We repeat: whether you're an HBase committer or just getting started (or at any level in between), HBaseCon is simply an event that you can't afford to miss – and with an entry fee of just $350, it's also one you can easily afford.
Top 5 Reasons to Attend HBaseCon 2013
HBaseCon 2013 is approaching fast – June 13 in San Francisco. If you're on the fence about attending – or perhaps your manager is on the fence about approving your participation – here are a few things that you/they need to know (in no particular order):
- HBaseCon is the annual rallying point for the HBase community. If you've ever had a desire to learn how to get involved in the community as a contributor, or just want to ask a committer or PMC member why things are done (or not done) a certain way, this is your opportunity – because this is where those people are. Participating in a mailing list thread is never quite the same once you've met the people behind it.
- HBaseCon is a one-stop shop for learning about the HBase roadmap, as well as other projects across the ecosystem. Current HBase users should be particularly interested in learning about which JIRAs will have the most impact on the user experience – and once again, most of the committers working on those JIRAs will either be leading sessions or otherwise present. Plus, you can learn about how new complementary projects like Impala, Kiji, Phoenix, and Honeycomb are transforming the use cases for HBase and helping to expand its footprint across the enterprise.
- HBaseCon is a feast of real-world experiences and use cases. Sure, maybe you've read about the HBase-backed applications used by companies like Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Pinterest, and Yahoo!. But wouldn't it be helpful to hear technical details and best practices directly from the people who built and run them? I'll bet it would. And you really can't do that anywhere else — in the whole world. (Plus, you can take advantage of formal training right before the conference, at a discount.)
- HBaseCon is a pageant of engineer rock-stars. If your company is an HBase user and hungry for talent, there's no better place to find it: HBaseCon is literally the world's biggest gathering of HBase experts under one roof.
- HBaseCon is a heck of a blast. Come for the deep-dives and advice, stay for the after-event party. The libations will be extensive!
If you have any interest in HBase whatsoever, whether as a user or prospective user, missing HBaseCon is almost unthinkable.
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At Cloudera, there is a long and proud tradition of employees creating new open source projects intended to help fill gaps in platform functionality (in addition to hiring new employees who have done so in the past). In fact, more than a dozen ecosystem projects — including Apache Hadoop itself — were founded by Clouderans, more than can be attributed to employees of any other single company. Cloudera was also the first vendor to ship most of those projects as enterprise-ready bits inside its platform.
We thought you might be interested in meeting some of them over the next few months, in a new "Meet the Project Founder" series. It's only appropriate that we begin with Doug Cutting himself – Cloudera's chief architect and the quadruple-threat founder of Apache Lucene, Apache Nutch, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Avro.
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Thanks to a dazzling array of excellent proposals from across the Apache HBase community, the HBaseCon 2013 Program Committee has cooked up a great list of sessions.
HBaseCon (hosted by Cloudera), now in its second year, is THE community event for Apache HBase contributors, developers, admins, and users. There is no better place to dive head-first into use cases, best practices, internals, and futures as well as to meet the rest of the community.
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Today Cloudera announced a new Cloudera Academic Partnership program, in which participating universities worldwide get access to curriculum, training, certification, and software.
As noted in the press release, the global demand for people with Apache Hadoop and data science skills is dwarfing all supply. We consider it an important mission to help accredited universities meet that demand, by equipping them with the content and training they need to educate students in the Hadoop arts.
Furthermore, we are cognizant of the fact that many academic research labs are in need of tools to help deploy, manage, and extend Hadoop clusters. For that reason, CAP members get free access to Cloudera Manager Enterprise Edition for 12 months to support data-intensive testing, development, and research.
It's Only Rock and Roll
It's only Rock and Roll, but I like it!
– Mick Jagger
Copyright is having a tough time in the digital age. New copies of music, movies and software can be created at near zero cost. Some wonder whether it still makes sense to ever charge for content. Over the past century large industries have developed that sell content. These industries resist change. We consumers love our content, but don't love paying for it. But would all the content we love still exist without payment for copyright?
One solution might be to replace sales of copyrighted material with services that provide access to the content. We could buy tickets to concerts, a service provided by musicians. We could enjoy streaming music services via subscriptions or supported by advertising. Similarly, we could access software as a service in the cloud. Some companies, like Google, create proprietary software yet don't make money off it by selling its copyright, but only through services. That's a great model, but is it the only way forward?
Where to Find Cloudera Tech Talks Through June 2013
It's time for me to give you a quarterly update (here's the one for Q1) about where to find tech talks by Cloudera employees in 2013. Committers, contributors, and other engineers will travel to meetups and conferences near and far to do their part in the community to make Apache Hadoop a household word!
(Remember, we're always ready to assist your meetup by providing speakers, sponsorships, and schwag.)
A couple highlights:
Congrats to OSCON 2013 Speakers!
Cloudera will be a proud exhibitor at O'Reilly OSCON 2013 (July 22-26 in Portland, OR), which in our opinion is a shining light in the open source community. So be sure to look for us!
We also want to take this opportunity to congratulate all speakers who will be presenting at OSCON. Furthermore, we want to highlight the talks led by Clouderans for your personal schedule:


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Fora to climax Sports Expo
Accra, May 3, GNA - Organisers of the forthcoming four-day 4th Accra Biennial Sports Expo, RICS Consult, the nation's foremost sports business consultancy firm will round up the event with two open fora.
The event, scheduled for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from Tuesday 14th to Friday 18th May, 2012, will have first of the two fora scheduled for Day Two, Wednesday, May 16th on the topic: 'Funding Sports; Public versus Private Sector & Role of District/Municipal/ Metropolitan Assemblies in grass- roots Talents Development Through Hosting of National Unity Games'.
According to a statement from the organizers copied to GNa Sports, the second fora, which has also been scheduled for the third day, will be on the topic, 'Strengthening Lesser Known & Financially Challenged Sports as a Key to Growing Diversified African Talents and Bidding to Co-Host International Sports Events in Africa'.
The Sports Expo Conference will be expected to bring together more than 150 participants from the National Olympic Committees; District / Regional & National Sports Councils; District / Regional and National Sports Associations & Federations; the sports industry investors & managers; sports medicine; club owners / managers and administrators; sports consultancy services; kit manufacturers; distributors of sports goods and equipments; sports journalists; leisure & hospitality services providers; financial, insurance and legal services; merchandising and many more from the Private Sectors.


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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island launch 40th Anniversary Celebrations
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island is proud to celebrate 40 years of Community Service. Every day since 1972 the club has been taking care of children, while parents take care of business. In recent years the club, which is a registered charity, has grown tremendously and today provides over 100 local jobs. Dedicated staff work from 12 centre's, located from Cowichan to the Comox Valley, and are responsible for the care and enrichment of more than 500 young lives every day.Staff specialize in life changing experiencesTo celebrate the 40th anniversary the club is choosing to showcase the level of passion staff have for children and has recently unveiled a series of posters entitled Our staff specialize in life changing experiences. Each poster communicates an inspiring story about transformation in a child's life and serves as a powerful reminder to childcare providers that their work and words, have tremendous value and impact on young lives. Perhaps you have a story of your own?Calling all Alumni and Former Staff MembersTo celebrate 40 years of community service in the region, we invite alumni and former staff members to celebrate the achievements of the last 40 years by emailing your most memorable and moving stories to email@example.com, see many of the old faces and meet the new, at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island 40th Anniversary celebration event at the Clippers hockey game, Sunday, December 9th, 2012 at Frank Crane Arena in Nanaimo.Game time: 3pm.To purchase tickets, please call the Clippers at Tel: 250-751-0593Media Contact:Sandra firstname.lastname@example.com: 250-890-9386Cell: 250-702-6206
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island are pleased to announce the addition of two locations to their Out of School programs in the Comox Valley. Following our success at Aspen Park Elementary, we are excited for the September 5, 2012 start of an Out of School Care program at Brooklyn Elementary in Comox and at Courtenay Elementary in Courtenay.
In honour of our expansion, Board and Staff would like to invite the public to stop by our Comox Valley Club House located at 367 11th Street in Courtenay on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 between the hours of 3 pm 7 pm, to enjoy some cake and celebrate with us.
We will have our friendly program staff on hand to answer any questions and accept Early Registrations to our Out of School Programs as well as to provide information on all of the programs designed for children, youth and families that we currently have available in our community.
Registration packages are available on the Registration and Membership page or through the Club House. They will also be available at the Open House. Please call 250-338-7582 for further information.
Looking for employment or a volunteer opportunity? Our Human Resources Manager will be on site accepting resumes for career opportunities and providing information on the various volunteer positions that exist within our organization.
We would love to have you to stop by and learn more about what the BGCCVI has to offer and why the Boys and Girls Clubs are a good place to be.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island is a proud member of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, the nations largest child and youth-serving organization.
We are excited to be celebrating our 40th Anniversary this year of serving the children and youth in our local communities!
Crown Isle Offers Golf Lessons and Lunch to BGCCVI Summer Camp Participants
A huge thank you to Comox Valley the 10th Annual Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island Golf tournament presented by Coastal Community Credit Union raised $27,000 net this year!
We are very grateful to all of the sponsors, businesses, volunteers, and community members who made this day such a success. Thank you also to Crown Isle for hosting us again this year. We are truly grateful for all of the support, and these dollars will make a huge difference in the lives of children, families, and youth in the Comox Valley.


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Public Policy Work in 2013
UWRI policy actions are designed to create collaborative relationships with its various community partners and stakeholders as well as with all levels of government. The intent of these relationships and partnerships is to develop and implement sound human services public policy, while educating and raising the awareness of the general public.
Our policy agenda is centered on our issue areas of: education, income and housing. We focus our attention on policies and legislative discussions that affect all aspects of Rhode Islanders' lives. We will continue with this focus in the coming legislative session and keep you informed of the policies that will affect your life at the federal and state levels.
United Way of Rhode Island is currently tracking the Farm Bill in both the Senate and House. Both bills include cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP. Please read the following article from The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and consider signing the letter below to let your representatives know how important these benefits are for many children, families, and the elderly.
Help protect the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit
Congress has been contemplating comprehensive tax reform for several years. Recent actions of both the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways & Means Committee indicate that Congress is actually taking concrete steps towards a major restructuring of the tax code.
Please contact your Members of Congress to urge them to stand up for the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit in tax reform.
Also please reference our testimony on the Rhode Island House bill H5640 which would redefine the refundable earned income credit to fifty percent (50%) of the amount by which the Rhode Island earned income tax credit exceeds the Rhode Island income tax.


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why would I shop on bing ? thats what I use amazon for, and I have no reason to share my shopping list with every one I have on facebook any way
Im using google plus right now and I love it !
Im using google plus right now and I love it !
Posted 10 March 2012 - 06:11 PM
Another author so desperate to get noticed that they claim 3 out of every 20 people will get so exited that M$ and Facebook share data that they will sway the the rest of us to join them in poorly, but linked to Facebook, searches and give up Google.
Posted 11 March 2012 - 07:11 PM
Everything that microsoft acquires or partners with will eventually collapse. So is the future of facebook, which invades people privacy way too much.
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Smoking in Oklahoma: Five states that have gone smoke-free
One of the biggest debates at the Oklahoma Capitol right now is whether the state will pass a law allowing cities to pass their own smoking laws.
Health advocates, including Gov. Mary Fallin, argue that passing this law would have a major impact on the state's health. They also argue that only Oklahoma and Tennessee have this type of restrictive law on the books regarding cities and smoking ordinances.
Opponents say that cities passing their own smoking laws would be confusing to business owners and also would trample on individual rights. Others voice concerns that a smoking ban could have a negative impact on business.
I'm not here to argue who's right. I'll leave that to, well, non-journalists. However, I was curious about other states that have made similar efforts. So, here's a list of five states that have recently gone "smoke-free" in some regard.
1. North Dakota
North Dakota is the 28th smokefree state in the U.S. through approval of a ballot initiative in November. North Dakota went smoke free through the same type of effort Gov. Fallin proposed yesterday. Fallin proposed the ballot initiative after lawmakers refused to hear Senate Bill 36, which would have allowed cities to pass their own smoking ordinances.
In North Dakota, you cannot smoke in all public buildings, including restaurants, bars, places of business, hotels, health care facilities, tobacco stores, workplace vehicles and taxis.
In one news story, a few bar owners discussed the potential impact of the ban:
Anderson said business might slow down initially but then pick up once nonsmokers start coming more often. When Bismarck passed a citywide smoking ban, Anderson didn't see an increased number of patrons.
Now that the ban has passed, Anderson will have the carpet replaced and minor remodeling done.
"We were going to do it last summer and then we said, 'Let's wait and see what happens with this smoking ban,'" she said.
2. Wisconsin
Before the law passed, bar owners worried the law would hurt business. Two years later, there's a mixed review on what impact the law has had on bar business.
A study through the University of Wisconsin researched bartenders and found that "this policy will help reduce the future risk of disease related to secondhand smoke among employees and patrons of bars and restaurants throughout the state."
3. Indiana
Indiana's smoking law went into effect in July. Unlike Wisconsin and North Dakota, Indiana's smoking law does not ban smoking in bars.
Rather, in Indiana, you can smoke in a "horse-racing facility, a riverboat, a facilitywith a gambling game license, a satellite-gaming facility, cigar bars, hookah bars, certain fraternal clubs, a retail-tobacco store, a bar or tavern meeting certain requirements, a cigar-manufacturing facility, a cigar-specialty store, a business in a private residence…"
There's a current discussion in Indiana to extend the ban to bars, but that doesn't look likely to happen.
4. Michigan
Starting in May 2010, smoking was banned in Michigan in most public places.
The law will cover any workplace and any food service establishment. A workplace is a site employing at least one person. A food service establishment is any place with a license to serve food or beverages. This law covers public places, including, but not limited to, restaurants, bars, shopping malls, bowling alleys, concert halls, arenas, museums, mechanic shops, health facilities, nursing homes, education facilities, and child carecenters.
After the law passed, a bar owner challenged the constitutionality of the smoking ban on the grounds that it unfairly provides advantages to casinos and has illegally cut into his profits.
Meanwhile, a study through the University of Michigan found that, after two years, the smoking ban had "no significant negative impact on bars and restaurants." The study was commissioned by the state of Michigan.
5. Kansas
Under the Kansas smoking ban, which became effective July 1, 2010, you cannot smoke in the following places:
- Public places
- Places of employment
- Restaurants
- Bars
- Taxicabs and limousines
- Lobbies, hallways and other common areas in apartment buildings and other multiple-residential facilities
- Restrooms, lobbies and other common areas in hotels and motels
- Within 10 feet of any doorway, open window or air intake where smoking is prohibited
In January, the Kansas Health Institute argued that "there is no apparent evidence that smoking bans in Kansas have been associated with a decrease in statewide restaurant and bar sales, or with a decrease in the number of establishments serving liquor."
Meanwhile, there has been some movement to exempt bars from the ban.
Thank you for joining our conversation on NewsOK Health Blog. We encourage your discussion but ask that you stay within the bounds of our commenting and posting policy.
Oklahomans, Please do your best to keep Oklahoma free.
Let business owners keep their right to decide whether or not they want to allow smoking in their establishments. Let Oklahomans decide whether or not they want to work or frequent those establishments. Don't force your will on others.
Don't follow those states that have cut off freedoms using fear and "safety for all" to control and take your freedom of choice.
Avoid the PC BS that is so pervasive in the knee-jerk reaction legislation of Washington and kowtowing states.
You and I many not smoke, but stand up for those that want and deserve a choice. Fight the urge to be Californicated.
Vote for independent thought. Vote for freedom. Vote for a free Oklahoma.
I personally, am not a smoker, but I think that this a ridiculous idea. I have always thought that it should be a business owners decision as to whether or not to be smoke free. If an owner chooses to allow smoking, then people who do not want to be exposed to the smoke can then exercise their right not to go into the business. It is just another way for government to intrude on individual rights. it amazes me that consuming alchol is also detrimental to a persons health as well as that persons ability to perform tasks. However, where are these same calls to ban alcohol?
Here's a brief history of the antismoking madness (Godber Blueprint) over the last few decades.
The first demand for a smoking ban was in the late-1980s concerning short-haul flights in the USA of less than 2 hours. At the time, the antismokers were asked if this was a "slippery slope" – where would it end? They ridiculed anyone suggesting such because this ban was ALL that they were after.
Then they ONLY wanted smoking bans on all flights.
Then the antismokers ONLY wanted nonsmoking sections in restaurants, bars, etc., and ensuring that this was ALL they wanted.
Then the antismokers ONLY wanted complete bans indoors. That was all they wanted. At the time, no-one was complaining about having to "endure" wisps of smoke outdoors.
While they pursued indoor bans, the antismokers were happy for smokers to be exiled to the outdoors. Having bulldozed their way into indoor bans, the antismokers then went to work on the outdoors, now declaring that momentary exposure to remnants of smoke in doorways or a whiff outdoors was a "hazard", more than poor, innocent nonsmokers should have to "endure".
Then they ONLY wanted bans within 10 feet of entrance ways.
Then they ONLY wanted bans within 20 feet of entrance ways.
Then they ONLY wanted bans in entire outdoor dining areas.
Then they ONLY wanted bans for entire university and hospital campuses and parks and beaches.
Then they ONLY wanted bans for apartment balconies.
Then they ONLY wanted bans for entire apartment (including individual apartments) complexes.
On top of all of this, there are now instances, particularly in the USA, where smokers are denied employment, denied housing (even the elderly), and denied medical treatment. Smokers in the UK are denied fostering/adoption. Involuntary mental patients are restrained physically or chemically (sedation) rather than allow them to have a cigarette – even outside.
At each point there was a crazed insistence that there was no more to come while they were actually planning the next ban and the brainwashing required to push it. There has been incessant (pathological) lying and deception. Many medically-aligned groups have been committed to antismoking – their smokefree "utopia" – since the 1960s. They have prostituted their medical authority and integrity to chase ideology (this is exactly what occurred in the eugenics of early last century). All of it is working to a tobacco-extermination plan run by the WHO and that most nations are now signed-up to (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control).
From Bayer & Stuber
"…..In the last half century the cigarette has been transformed. The fragrant has become foul. . . . An emblem of attraction has become repulsive. A mark of sociability has become deviant. A public behavior is now virtually private. Not only has the meaning of the cigarette been transformed but even more the meaning of the smoker [who] has become a pariah . . . the object of scorn and hostility."
This change from fragrant to foul has not come from the smoke which has remained a constant. The shift is an entirely psychological one. Unfortunately, the way the shift is manufactured is through negative conditioning. The constant play on fear and hatred through inflammatory propaganda warps perception. Ambient tobacco smoke was essentially a background phenomenon. Now exposure to tobacco smoke (SHS) has been fraudulently manufactured into something on a par with a bio-weapon like, say, sarin gas. There are now quite a few who screech that they "can't stand" the "stench" of smoke, or the smoke is "overwhelming"; there are now those, hand cupped over mouth, that attempt to avoid even a whiff of dilute remnants of smoke – even outdoors. There are those that claim that, arriving from a night out, they had to put all of their clothes in the washing machine and scrape the "smoke" of their skin in the shower. There are even those that claim they are "allergic" to tobacco smoke. Yet there are no allergens (proteins) in tobacco smoke to be allergic to. And it didn't stop with just the smoke. Cigarette butts – heretofore unheard of – suddenly became a "monumental problem" too. These are all recent phenomena born of toxic propaganda; it is an expanding hysteria. It says nothing about the physical properties/propensities of tobacco smoke. These people are demonstrating that they have been successfully conditioned (brainwashed) into aversion. They are now suffering mental dysfunction such as anxiety disorder, hypochondria, or somatization. Typical symptoms of anxiety disorder are heart palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, etc. These capnophobics (smokephobics) are no different to those irrationally attempting to avoid cracks in the pavement lest their mental world come crashing down. Questionable social engineering requires putting many into mental disorder to advance the ideological/financial agenda. It is the fanatics/zealots/extremists and their toxic mentality and propaganda that have long been in need of urgent scrutiny.
I showed the Kansas Health Institute to TWO economists. Both agreed that the "study" showed nothing at all. And, it did NOT list the conflict of interest of the Kansas Health Institute who have received funding to promote smoking bans.
You can lie to some of the people some of the time, but not to me. I CAN READ. Also, the Univ of Michigan, who produces MANY pro ban reports, has as it's president a Ms Coleman, who is on the Board of Johnson and Johnson, the company that sells the patches and gums.
While I respect others points of view and champion the right of free speech, should it not be the individuals choice to smoke or not? Have we lost our intellectual capabilities to think for ourselves? I do not promote or encourage smoking or endorse any tobacco products, but I do support the freedom of choice. When people feel opressed, they rebel against the enforcers and will voice their anger towards anyone who cares to listen. Where does it all end?


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As far as setting up a server.. you'll pretty much need most of your ports >=1000 open for bidirectional traffic (when a client sends a request on the main server port, the server asks the OS for a port and then sends the port # received to the client, which the client connects to), as well as whatever port you select for the server in the cfg file (defaults to 27888).
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2012 All-ACC Academic Men's Swimming & Diving Team Announced
May 9, 2012 GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Virginia's David Karasek has been recognized as the 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year, announced today by the conference office. Karasek highlights the 2012 All-ACC Academic Men's Swimming & Diving Team. To be eligible for All-ACC Academic Team consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career. A graduate student studying Professional Development, Karasek won ACC titles at the 2012 ACC Championship in the 200 individual medley and 200 freestyle, setting a new Virginia school record in the 200 IM. Also a member of the victorious Cavalier 800 freestyle relay, the native of Meisterschwanden, Switzerland finished his career with five ACC titles and was a member of four team championships. This is his third career All-ACC Academic honor. At the national level, Karasek earned All-America honors on Virginia's fourth-place 800 freestyle relay as well as honorable mention accolades as a member of the 400 freestyle and 400 medley relay teams. He also was an All-American in the 200 freestyle with his seventh-place finish at the 2012 NCAA Championships. An eight-time All-American, Karasek swam at the NCAA Championships four times in his career and is expected to represent his native Switzerland at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Earning their fourth-career conference academic honors are Clemson's Chris Dart and Virginia Tech's Blake Trabuchi-Downey. Florida State's Nicholas Klein, Georgia Tech's Brandon Makinson, NC State's Brandon Kingston, and Virginia Tech's Greg Mahon, Logan Shinholser, and Matthew Baumler earned their third recognition.


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Hudson Raider tennis team still undefeated
Raider boys' tennis coach Dave Dahl hit the nail on the head when he summed up his team's play at the Wausau West Invitational last Saturday.By: Bob Burrows, Hudson Star-Observer
Raider boys' tennis coach Dave Dahl hit the nail on the head when he summed up his team's play at the Wausau West Invitational last Saturday.
"When you win 27 of 28 matches played, it's a pretty good weekend," he said.
The Raiders went 4-0 against Wisconsin Valley foes to improve to 9-0 in dual matches this season. Hudson defeated Wausau Newman and Wausau East by identical 7-0 scores before beating D.C. Everest, 6-1. They ended the day with another 7-0 victory, this time over Wausau West.
Saturday's four victories came a week after the Raiders went 3-0 against WVC teams Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids and Wausau West at the BRC/MVC Challenge April 14.
"We've taken advantage of a Wisconsin Valley Conference that is a little down this year, but we certainly won't apologize for any of the wins," Dahl said. "All of our guys know they will be pushed harder in matches to come, but we've done a great job early in the season of really taking it to the opposition."
Dahl said 15 players have recorded varsity victories this season, which is an indication of the team's depth.
Saturday in Wausau, Max Hawksford, Jeff Dahl, Sam Duchow, Cal Johnson, Jack Schulte, Max Cherrier and Mitch Karras all posted four wins, while Dan Botethi picked up three.
On the season, Hawksford and Jeff Dahl lead the team with nine victories each while Duchow and Johnson are right behind with eight apiece.
After a make-up match this past Monday against Eau Claire North, the Raiders will visit Menomonie Thursday, April 26 and play at the East Ridge (Minn.) Double Dual Saturday, April 28. They end the month with a dual match at Tartan (Minn.) Monday, April 30, before hosting River Falls Thursday, May 3.
"We've got plenty of business to take care of in the BRC the next couple weeks and some good weekend tournaments ahead," Dahl said. "It will be very important for us to continue to practice well."
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Weiming Group Chengdu High School students
About the Program
- EMU is recruiting 26 qualified Michigan certified teachers to teach subjects in English at Weiming Education Group (WEG) elementary and high schools across China beginning fall 2012.
- Teachers will contract with a Weiming Education Group host school for one academic year, renewable upon mutual agreement from both parties.
- Program Announcement Letter (pdf)
- No Chinese language skill needed.
- Native English speaker.
- Must be Michigan teacher certified.
- Required to sign a contract with the host school.
- Participate in orientation program at EMU.
- Valid passport.
Weiming Group Shenzhen school students
Benefits (through Weiming Education Group)
- $1,000 monthly cash stipend for the first year of contract.
- Health insurance.
- $300 one-time relocation allowance.
- Roundtrip airfare to China provided.
- Apartment style furnished housing provided (w/TV and internet).
- Meals available at school sites.
- Explore China! Travel within the country is very reasonable.
Application Materials
For more information, contact the Office of Urban, Community, and International Outreach at 734.487.1060 or visit them in 104 Porter.
*Please use the Application Packet Checklist as a cover sheet for your application package.


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Tell President Obama to Hold Firm!
You've probably heard Negotiations on reducing the deficit have hit a roadblock, and President Obama is taking a more active role. He is meeting with Senate leadership today. Vice President Biden had been working with a small group from Congress to get an agreement by July 1.
The negotiations have been stalled because Republicans in the group want trillions of dollars in service cuts and are staking out a position opposed to replacing some of those cuts with increased revenues. The Administration is playing a critical role, and does support including increased revenues to protect low and moderate-income people. We need them to hold firm!
Call 1-888-245-0215 toll-free, and you'll be connected to the White House Comment Line.
Call NOW and tell them:
"Please tell the President and the Vice President to hold firm and prevent harmful cuts or caps to low-income programs in the negotiations to reduce the deficit. Please insist on fair increases in revenues to prevent reckless cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, and other essential services.
Major national organizations are also urging decision-makers to protect low-income people in deficit reduction plans. This morning a letter was circulated from organizations including United Way Worldwide, National Council of La Raza, Feeding America, Sojourners, Families USA and many more, including the Coalition on Human Needs.
Want to understand more about the dangers of slashing low-income programs?
Read Debbie Weinstein's piece on CommonDreams.org: Paving the Road to a Hungrier, Unhealthier, and Less-Educated Nation: Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans. This piece describes the impact of massive SNAP/food stamp and Medicaid cuts in the House budget. Including 8 million fewer food stamp recipients, or cuts of $147/month for every 4-person family receiving food stamps - and cutting Medicaid caseloads nearly in half in most states.
The President and Vice President need your call now. Dial 1-888-245-0215 toll-free, and you'll be connected to the White House Comment Line.