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|February 5, 2007 04:45 AM EST
Tim Bray
Brief description: One of the prime movers of XML, now with Sun
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Described recently as "a perennial figure of the Web," Tim Bray's typical bio is almost frighteningly full of accomplishment: He was manager of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project at the University of Waterloo, a co-editor of the XML spec, co-founder of Open Text Corporation, and is the founder and CTO of Antarctica Systems. He is a member of the W3C Consortium's Technical Architecture Group, which serves an architectural oversight function for the Web. As James Horner has observed: "To put it simply, his efforts change the way we work with, and perceive, information."
Bray blogs enthusiastically, and recently joined Sun as Director of Web Technologies.
While most people regard .NET as the chief threat to Java's status as the de-facto standard basis for large-scale software development, Bray - ever the contrarian -prophetically argued that rather it is the family of dynamic or "scripting" languages such as JavaScript, Python and Groovy that would inevitably occupy a larger and larger piece of the software-development universe. He believed that this trend is "impossible to resist, and...is potentially a good thing for Java."
The explosion of AJAX in the past two years have proven him right on the first point; and probably right on the second, though that may only emerge over time.
Closely involved in the world's most successful XML vocabulary, "RSS", which is used for news syndication, Bray is co-chair of the IETF "Atom" project which is designed to be its future.
Other resources:
The Co-Inventor of XML, Sun's Tim Bray, Speaks Out On Blogging, Web 2.0, XML, and the Future
Published May. 27, 2006 - Interview at JavaOne 2006 with Jeremy Geelan
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
Sun's Tim Bray Discusses "AJAX Behaving Badly" and Other Misconceptions
i-Technology News Desk
"I Didn't Invent XML Dammit," Says Tim Bray
|Justin Hart 02/18/07 11:20:16 PM EST
Vint Cerf's name is Vinton Cerf, not Vincent Cerf.
|pvdg 02/09/07 07:20:28 PM EST
I'd begin with:
N°1 : Charles Babbage (designed the first computer)
|pvdg 02/09/07 07:09:09 PM EST
What about Seymour Cray?
Bill Gates was a "hero of i-Technology" and I didn't know? What technology did he invented?
|kjell krona 02/06/07 01:03:36 PM EST
In your list of IT heroes, I am missing some of the important people involved in the Graphical User Interface, as first instantiated in Macintosh UI (and later was copied by Microsoft):
- kjell
|Lars Arvestad 02/06/07 06:04:03 AM EST
|| m6 commented on the 6 Feb 2007:
The word "hero" should of course be used sparingly, and probably not in adjunction to "tech", but JWZ holds his place among the Big Hackers, IMHO.
Some of his accomplishments, in no particular order:
|fm6 02/06/07 05:15:53 AM EST
Can someone explain to me why Jamie Z is a hero? I only know him from reading his comments in the Netscape keyboard resource file when I was trying to get the browser to behave under Linux. These left me with a permanent dislike for the dude: instead of explaining the format of the file, he put in lengthy sarcastic (and misinformed) rants about the "mistakes" made by various Unix vendors in designing their keyboards.
|Ron Blessing 02/05/07 01:36:09 PM EST
Every time I see one of the computer Hall of Fame articles in a magazine
...Ron Blessing
|Grady Booch 02/05/07 11:45:30 AM EST
I'm quite flatted that you've numbered me among your top twenty all-time technology heroes.
As for the Renaissance jazz bit, I play the Celtic harp, on which I perform a number of medieval and renaissance pieces. I once had an instructor who taught me some great improvisational skills, and thus the phrase, Renaissance jazz, for I like to do riffs off of really old themes.
I think I would have been an itinerant musician or a priest if I were not doing software :-)
|InOtherNews 02/05/07 08:34:39 AM EST
Yakov Fain has devised his own version over here: http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/who_are_the_heroes_of_itechno... in case anyone wants to take a look.
|More Nominees 02/05/07 06:19:39 AM EST
There's a great supplemetary list by Mark Hinkle here: http://www.encoreopus.com/content/view/334/35/.
Among the new names he adds are Jarkko Oikarinen, Bram Cohen, and Jerry Yang & David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!
|i-net user 02/05/07 01:21:03 AM EST
Congratulaions, you have just insured that I will never willing used AJAX in any of my projects. Your pop-over add that blocks the article is annoying at best.
|Barry Threw 02/05/07 12:54:00 AM EST
Vannevar Bush
|kelley meck 02/04/07 11:44:05 PM EST
You have to include Claude Shannon, and you might want to consider Oliver Selfridge. Shannon was the mathematician who figured information theory, and Selfridge started everything behind neural networks--which have never caught up with modal programming, but whose promise is unbounded.
|Lee Butler 02/04/07 09:34:23 PM EST
You should also remember Michael J. Muuss. He developed "ping" and was instrumental in some of the developments of TCP/IP and Unix in the early days. He worked at the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.
|Carsten Schlemm 02/04/07 08:19:22 PM EST
|Troy Angrignon 02/04/07 07:55:13 PM EST
Jeremy, great post. Here are my additional nominations:
|w3c 02/04/07 07:25:58 PM EST
I would nominate Dave Raggett (W3C). Over the years, Dave has been involved in the design of many important Web Technologies, starting with HTML (tables etc.), CSS, VoiceXML, MathML and XForms. He's also the author of Tidy, an important tool for Web developers.
|Mike Radow 02/04/07 07:01:24 PM EST
Nomination for ''all-time hero"...: "Paul Baran" ( go to www.google.com ) He invented _packet-switching_ ( funded by DARPA ) for the ArpaNet.
|Mike Radow 02/04/07 07:01:24 PM EST
Nomination for ''all-time hero"...: "Paul Baran" ( go to www.google.com ) He invented _packet-switching_ ( funded by DARPA ) for the ArpaNet.
|Mike Radow 02/04/07 07:01:24 PM EST
Nomination for ''all-time hero"...: "Paul Baran" ( go to www.google.com ) He invented _packet-switching_ ( funded by DARPA ) for the ArpaNet.
|Mike Radow 02/04/07 07:01:09 PM EST
Nomination for ''all-time hero"...: "Paul Baran" ( go to www.google.com ) He invented _packet-switching_ ( funded by DARPA ) for the ArpaNet.
|Mike Radow 02/04/07 07:01:08 PM EST
Nomination for ''all-time hero"...: "Paul Baran" ( go to www.google.com ) He invented _packet-switching_ ( funded by DARPA ) for the ArpaNet.
|Mike Radow 02/04/07 07:01:04 PM EST
Nomination for ''all-time hero"...: "Paul Baran" ( go to www.google.com ) He invented _packet-switching_ ( funded by DARPA ) for the ArpaNet.
|a VMS afficianado in days past 02/04/07 06:20:43 PM EST
Dave Cutler, while quite brilliant, was hardly the "brains behind VMS". He worked on it, sure. And he contributed a lot. But he didn't create it and wasn't in the early architectural planning; he came along later. Maybe you should say he was "a major contributor to VMS" to be accurate.
|ccrmalite 02/04/07 05:34:16 PM EST
When discussing the heroes of "I-Technology", no list would be complete without Max Mathews, the pioneering creator of the first digital music systems at Bell Labs in the 1950s upon which all digital music software and research was based. These days, imagining a computer system without music seems impossible yet without Max's work on the Music I-Music V computer music languages, we wouldn't be rocking out on our iTunes while reading this article, let alone creating digitally based music of any kind. For those who don't know Max, remember the end of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", when a dying HAL sings an homage to Max's influential early recording of "Daisy," signifying one of the computer's earliest memories. Kubrick got it right, I strongly suggest you add Max to your list.
|Andy Poggio 02/04/07 04:43:00 PM EST
Please add Doug Engelbart to your list of heros of i-Technology. If you are unfamiliar with his work, just Google his name or "mother of all demos". Doug and his group at SRI international pioneered many of the things we now take for granted, e.g. hypertext networked documents, videoconferencing, collaborative work, and the mouse.
|an0n 02/04/07 04:25:26 PM EST
Presper Eckert (ENIAC)
Agree this is in part a popularity contest. Some of the ones on the original list were influential tech CEOs or Chief Architects in their time, but does that Hall of Fame material?
And if you say "Myrhvold", I think you must also say Bruce and ESR....
|Andrew 02/04/07 12:33:44 PM EST
Ed De Castro deserves to be on the list as the inventor of the personal computer - The PDP8 was my first personal computer, even if not yours :-)
|Jeff LaMarche 02/04/07 11:26:11 AM EST
Grace Hopper did not invent COBOL. She absolutely 100% should be on the list, but she should be on the list for what she did do. She invented a language called FLOW-MATIC, which was then later used as the starting point by COBOL, which was (quite obviously) designed by committee wthout any further input from Admiral Hopper. She later used COBOL, but she had no direct participation in COBOL.
Much more important, though, she came up with the groundbreaking concept that computer programs could be written in a more English-like language rather than in machine code, something we all take for granted now, but which really was one of the key enablers that allowed computers to become what they are today.
|Fellowship 02/04/07 08:28:41 AM EST
>> There is no genius in JUnit, unless you
Didn't Beck become an Agitar Software Fellow a while back? Alberto Savoia, co-founder and CTO of Agitar specifically called him "one of my heroes" - here's a link to the announcement back in '04: http://www.agitar.com/news/pr/20040802.html
|Jeremy Epstein 02/04/07 05:03:06 AM EST
Here's a few key people I think should be on the list:
Steve Bellovin - author of USENET, security researcher, author of the seminal book (with Bill Cheswick) on firewalls
David Bell & Len LaPadula - developed the multi-level security model used to represent military security
Gene Spafford - leader of CERIAS at Purdue Univ, which spun off numerous security product companies (e.g., Tripwire, ISS)
Roger Schell - very early proponent of attacker models; first penetration tester; architect for highly secure systems
|jim scandale 02/04/07 03:58:03 AM EST
there are an awful lot of what I would call purely hardware people. No doubt that they contributed greatly but "software people" they're not.
|"Inventor of the Internet" Missing 02/04/07 03:08:29 AM EST
Shouldn't Al Gore get a token place in the list?
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Bertrand Meyer not on the list? (Eiffel and Design By Contract)
|Eric Sarjeant 02/03/07 03:33:40 PM EST
I think Ward Cunningham, the creator of the "Wiki" deserves to be added to the list. If not the top 40, then surely the next 60.
|Kelly 02/03/07 03:32:09 PM EST
Overall, a very reasonable list. Lots of luminaries there. Then I saw "Kent Beck, creator of JUnit and pioneer of XTreme Programming" Ergh! Sorry, I just vomited a little bit, in my mouth... Give me a break! JUnit took what? An afternoon to come up with? There is no genius in JUnit, unless you count the hype machine that culimated in Kent Beck's name appearing on this list.
|Wolbdrab 02/03/07 03:31:08 PM EST
Glad to see John von Neumann and John Backus recommended.
|HTMHell 02/03/07 12:49:33 PM EST
I would challenge Tim Berners-Lee's positin on this list since it is HTML that has also brought us the Browser Wars, and the subsequent HTML writer's hell of trying to get a page to display properly on all the popular browsers, and all versions thereof.
The name HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language, implies a rich set of features that don't exist in reality
|chiew 02/03/07 12:48:17 PM EST
Richard Stevens is the most deserving of inclusion in this entire list: everything is based on TCP/IP.
|Knoppix Lover 02/03/07 12:45:47 PM EST
Has anyone nominated Karl Knopper yet - "Mr Knoppix"? Ah yes they have, I see, he was in the first 40. Quite right!
|Dissenter 02/03/07 12:43:49 PM EST
Donald Knuth!? Knuth, like a lot of those listed, are just Ivory Tower acadamics with no real applications in industry
|rusty0101 02/03/07 12:42:17 PM EST
Arguably Bill Gates did more for personal computers than most anyone else out there. I would have to point out however that most of what he has done is related to his business ability rather than his software writing abilities.
|solarrhino 02/03/07 12:38:47 PM EST
You know, when I looked at this list, I found myself disappointed. Sure, there are some big important guys, but software is more than about applications and the big picture. It's also about the technology, and creating new abstractions. And in a lot of ways, the guy who first invented debugging is a lot more important to the success of computer science than anybody listed there.
It may be because I'm an old fart, but I remember the excitement of learning each new abstraction, either as I discovered it, or as it was invented. And it seemed to me that the creation of those abstractions are the really great deeds of computer science. Maybe nobody knows who had those break-through moments first, but I'm sure that they occured, and they seem to be to the the Great Moments in computer science.
1) The first guy to think "I shouldn't have to rewire, I should be able to write instructions that rewire it for me" - i.e., the assembler moment
2) The first guy to realize "I'm not just re-wiring this, I'm describing an procedure for it to use" - the FORTRAN moment
3) The first guy to ask "Why can't I used the same procedure from different places in my code" - the subroutine moment
4) The first guy to say "I should be able to use the subroutine in the program it already knows" - the library moment
5) The first guy to ask "Why do I have to be the one writing down the results?" - the printer moment
6) The first guy to realize "This isn't just a calculator, it's also a controller!" - the embedded moment
7) The first guy to realize "This isn't just a calculator, it's also a storage system!" - the database moment
8) The first guy to realize "This isn't just a calculator, it's also a communication system!" - the network moment
9) The first guy to realize "I'm not just submitting instructions for it to process - it's submiting instructions back for me to process!" - the interactive moment
10) The first guy to think "Why can't it do something else while its waiting?" - the multitasking moment
11) The first guy to think "Why can't it show me more context while I work?" - the full-screen moment
And finally...
12) The first guy to think "Man, why can't this thing show me some chicks?" - the porn moment
|More Here 02/03/07 12:34:30 PM EST
How about pioneers like George Boole, John Louis von Neumann, and the 'Forgotten Father of the Computer' John Vincent Atanasoff?
|bach_hoang 02/03/07 11:50:51 AM EST
It's nice to see some of the names (from the 70s) of those who advocated "open" systems (V Cerf, B Metcalfe, etc) from
|Robert Sawken 02/03/07 11:24:59 AM EST
You need to add Ken Olson founder of Digital Equipment Corp. DEC owned the then mini computer market in the 70's and 80's
The people from DEC and RT-11, TOPS10, VAX, VMS, DECNET are some the major contributors in hardware and software like X-Windows, early Networking, first clustering, wrote much of Windows NT and are the senior developers and architects in a lot of today's technology industry...
|Robert Sawken 02/03/07 11:24:57 AM EST
You need to add Ken Olson founder of Digital Equipment Corp. DEC owned the then mini computer market in the 70's and 80's
The people from DEC and RT-11, TOPS10, VAX, VMS, DECNET are some the major contributors in hardware and software like X-Windows, early Networking, first clustering, wrote much of Windows NT and are the senior developers and architects in a lot of today's technology industry...
|queZZtion 02/03/07 09:36:50 AM EST
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Bradley K. Hobbs, BB&T Professor of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics, received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1991. His research interests are wide ranging across finance and economics.
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Dr. Hobbs is a member of the Teaching Faculty for the Foundation for Teaching Economics and is engaged in seminars with The Liberty Fund. His intellectual interests are wide-ranging and include the philosophical foundations of free markets, property rights, and the relationship between economic freedoms and political democracy.
Brad has been active in undergraduate research and served for seven years as the founding faculty advisor and editor for Issues in Political Economy. Brad teaches in our EMBA and MBA programs regularly. Brad grew up on the east coast of Florida in Merritt Island.
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Ultrabook sales sent NAND flash memory revenue down in 2012, new data from IHS iSuppli has revealed.
The company said today that revenue fell 7 percent in 2012 to $19.7 billion from $21.2 billion in 2011. Ultrabooks proved to be the culprit for the decline, according to the research firm.
"A major drag on the NAND industry was the disappointing sales of Ultrabooks, negatively impacting the flash memory prospects of cache solid state drives (SSD) used in the superthin computers," iSuppli wrote today in its research posting. "While Ultrabooks have had some success penetrating into the consumer computing experience, adoption overall has been underwhelming, and the incremental increase to demand has been significantly below expectations."
Ultrabooks, the laptop spec created by Intel, were supposed to be the PC world's best answer yet to Apple's MacBook Air. Ultrabooks are designed to be extremely thin and lightweight, and run on Intel's processors. However, the devices have been hit hard by flagging demand due mainly to their high prices and to competition from tablets.
In October, IHS iSuppli made clear just how much trouble ultrabooks were having when it announced that it had slashed its 2012 sales forecasts from 22 million to 10.3 million units.
"There once was a time when everyone knew the 'Dude you're getting a Dell' slogan," IHS analyst Craig Stice said at the time. "Nowadays no one can remember a tag line for a new PC product, including for any single ultrabook. So far, the PC industry has failed to create the kind of buzz and excitement among consumers that is required to propel ultrabooks into the mainstream."
Still, ultrabook difficulties did nothing to put a damper on the success of other products running NAND flash memory. Apple's iPhone, for example, accounted for 10.5 percent of all NAND flash supply in 2012, according to iSuppli. All other smartphones combined to account for 10.4 percent usage of flash.
Tablets have also become a "major driving force for NAND demand," iSuppli said.
The expected success of smartphones and tablets in the coming years should help boost the flash memory market. iSuppli predicts that flash revenue will jump to $22.4 billion this year and then continue its march toward $30 billion between 2014 and 2016.


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Many small office/home office (SOHO) users connect to the Internet, and many have a network of computers. Any network that connects to the outside world needs protection against unauthorized use and entry, and a firewall provides that protection.
What Is a Firewall?
Located either at a network gateway server or on a specialized hardware device, a firewall is a set of related programs that protect the contents of a private network from external users and programs. Many SOHO users install firewalls to prevent outsiders from accessing private resources (e.g., confidential business data) and to control internal access to Internet resources.
Typically, a firewall works in tandem with a router program to examine each packet of data sent out on a network to determine whether to send that data to its destination. A firewall also includes or complements a proxy server. In addition to aggregating network requests so that all outgoing traffic appears to be coming from one computer instead of from several machines on the internal network, a proxy server also collects and caches all incoming network pages. Administrators often install a firewall on a specially designated computer separate from the rest of the network so that no incoming request can directly access private resources. Let's look at a few of the screening methods firewalls use.
Packet filtering. A dynamic packet filter is a firewall facility that monitors the state of active connections, using this information to determine which network packets to let through the firewall. By recording session information, such as the IP address and port numbers, a dynamic packet filter implements much tighter security than a static packet filter. For example, assume that you want to configure your firewall so that you let all your users access the Internet, but you let in only replies to users' data requests. With a static packet filter, you'd need to permanently let in replies from all external addresses, assuming that users are free to visit any site on the Internet. This kind of filter would let an attacker sneak information past the filter by making the packet look like a reply (by indicating reply in the packet header). By tracking and matching requests and replies, a dynamic packet filter can screen for replies that don't match a request. When the system records a request, the dynamic packet filter opens an inbound door just long enough to let in only the expected data. Once the system receives the reply, the filter closes the door, dramatically increasing the firewall's security capabilities.
Proxy service. You use a proxy server with a gateway server that separates the enterprise network from the outside network and with a firewall server that protects the enterprise network from outside intrusion. When a proxy server receives a user's request for an Internet service (e.g., a Web page request), if the service passes filtering requirements, the proxy server (assuming it's also a cache server) looks in its local cache of previously downloaded Web pages. If the proxy server finds the page, it returns the page to the user without forwarding the request to the Internet. If the page is not in the cache, the proxy server, acting as a client on behalf of the user, uses one of its own IP addresses to request the page from the server out on the Internet. When the Internet server returns the page, the proxy server relates the page to the original request and forwards the information to the user. The user never sees the proxy server; all Internet requests and returned responses appear to be direct with the addressed Internet server. (The proxy server is not quite invisible; it displays its IP address on all requests so that traffic can return back to it.) An advantage of using a proxy server is that its cache can serve all users. Frequently requested Internet sites are likely to be in the proxy server's cache, improving user response time. The functions of a proxy server, firewall, and cache server can exist as separate server programs or as one package. Also, different computers can contain different server programs. For example, a proxy server can be on the same machine with a firewall server, or it can be on a separate server and forward requests through the firewall.
Stateful inspection. Stateful inspection is a newer firewall screening method that doesn't examine the contents of each packet; instead, it compares certain key parts of a packet to a database of trusted information. Stateful inspection monitors information traveling from inside the firewall to the outside, looking for specific defining characteristics, and compares these characteristics with incoming information. If the comparison yields a reasonable match, the firewall lets the information go through; otherwise, it discards it. However, because stateful inspection doesn't examine the entire packet, malformed packets can penetrate this line of defense and cause problems with the servers behind the firewall. A packet's contents can contain information or commands that can cause applications to fail (e.g., Active Server Pages—ASP—or Common Gateway Interface—CGI—script on a Web server). In fact, some multimedia applications (e.g., Real Audio) require firewall manufacturers to revise their stateful inspection engines. For that reason, large companies and e-commerce and hosting sites use high-end firewalls that are hybrids, offering stateful inspection and proxy applications for specific programs. However, most SOHO applications need only a firewall with simple stateful inspection.
Using Firewalls
You can use firewalls in many ways to protect your network. Firewalls offer protection against remote log on and access by not letting someone connect to your computer and control it (e.g., viewing or accessing your files or running programs on your computer). Firewalls can also protect you against actions you run from macros. For example, some applications let you create a script of commands—a macro—that the application can run to simplify more complex procedures; however, malicious attackers can create their own macros that, depending on the application, can destroy your data or crash your computer. Firewalls also offer protection against malicious source routing. Routers typically determine the path a packet travels over a network. However, the source providing the packet can explicitly state what route the packet should follow to the destination. Attackers sometimes use this facility to make traffic appear to originate at a trusted source or even inside your network, a process called spoofing. Most firewall products disable source routing by default.
Firewall Limitations
Although firewalls can help protect your internal network from outside sources, they do have limitations. For example, firewalls can protect against the actions that Trojan horse viruses (such as Back Orifice) take once installed, but firewalls can't prevent a virus from entering your network without add-ons. Whereas some firewalls offer limited virus protection, some are difficult to update. Some antivirus product vendors make modular plugins for firewalls that can screen email and Web traffic before it ever enters the internal network. Moreover, the virus definitions are simple to update. Basically, the plugins function like desktop product updates. You should still install antivirus software on each computer in your network. Also, as long as you accept email into your network, some spam will pass through your firewall.
The level of security you establish determines how many of these threats your firewall can stop. A common rule of thumb: Block everything first, and then begin selecting what types of traffic you'll let in. You can also restrict traffic that travels through the firewall so that only certain types of information (e.g., email) can get through. You can buy firewall appliances that perform most of the analysis and configuration upfront (e.g., Linksys Cable/DSL router); all you need to do is plug them in. In my next column, I'll look at a small router device that affords strong, inexpensive firewall protection for your SOHO.


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BEIJING (AP) Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka and No. 2 Maria Sharapova advanced to the China Open semifinals on Friday.
Azarenka defeated Romina Oprandi of Switzerland 6-2, 6-0, and Sharapova beat sixth-seeded Angelique Kerber when the German retired with a right foot injury while trailing 6-0, 3-0.
``I thought we played a high level of tennis the first set and a half, and even though the score line was 6-0, 3-0, there were many games that went to deuce,'' Sharapova said. ``She had a few break points and long games on her serve.
``I actually didn't see much of her injury. I was surprised she called the trainer and even more so when she retired quickly after that.''
Sharapova has not dropped a set at the China Open. The French Open champion will next face seventh-seeded Li Na of China, who beat third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-4, 6-2.
Azarenka, who won the Australian Open this year, converted all six break points she earned and will next play either ninth-seeded Marion Bartoli of France or Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain.
``I felt like I was playing well, and that's what gave me an advantage to go and play and have that score line after the match, but it wasn't easy,'' Azarenka said. ``Sometimes it's important to stay tough and have that concentration to make sure that you can win every ball and every point.''
In the men's quarterfinals, third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France defeated Mikhail Yozhny of Russia 6-3, 6-2. Tsonga, who had a walkover in the third round, had seven aces and saved both break points he gave away.
``I think it was a good thing because I played three sets the day before,'' Tsonga said. ``For me it's good to have some rest.''
Unseeded Florian Mayer also reached the semifinals when he beat Chinese wild-card Zhang Ze 6-3, 6-4.
Tsonga will next play either Sam Querrey of the United States or Feliciano Lopez of Spain. Mayer will take on either top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia or Jurgen Melzer of Austria.


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by Larry Austin
Kaegebein Elementary School recognized a group of unsung heroes in education Thursday.
Principal Mary Haggerty presented the Golden Dustpan award to Mike DeMartin, the head custodian at Kaegebein Elementary, for a job well done by the Kaegebein Kleaning Krew in this summer's scorching heat.
Haggerty explained that because much of the hard work and effort by the cleaners and custodians takes place outside the view of students and teachers, she wanted the "krew" to get its just due.
"They don't always get a lot of credit for the job that they do, and those are not easy jobs," Haggerty said. "They work hard for their money and they do a great job. We're very proud of them and we're very appreciative and very grateful that they do what they do."
"It's nice to be recognized," DeMartin said. In accepting the award and thank-you letters from students at a surprise lunchtime gathering, DeMartin, pictured above receiving the award, praised the others in his krew: Rick Walworth, night custodian; and cleaners Anne Henneberger, Daniel Pedlow and Liz Tucker. "We do have an exceptional krew here," he said.
The recognition included a "hip-hip-hooray" from the student body and offered a teachable moment for the children as well, Haggerty said. "It's just our way of making sure that the students understand how important all of the adults are that work in the school and the important work that they do to make it a great school for them."
"In probably the hottest, most difficult summer we've had in a long, long time, not only did Mike and the Krew get everything spic and span and wonderful, they did it well ahead of time so the teachers could get back in their classrooms and be prepared for the boys and girls," Haggerty said. "And he does it consistently, year after year. Grand Island's buildings and grounds department is just amazing and they all do a great job."


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Sport: Men's basketball
Position: Shooting guard/small forward
Hometown: Irmo, S.C.
Year: Junior
Major: Physical education and sport studies with a concentration in exercise science
Why did you choose Coker? I chose Coker because the campus fit the size that I was looking for - not too big or small. Also, Coker is one of the best schools in the Southeast and an education from here would help me in the long run. The most important reason was basketball and my coach, Dan Schmotzer, made a great impression on me.
What is your best memory at Coker (non-athletic related)? Bandfest
Favorite class: All my math classes
Favorite professor: Don Mac (Spanish professor)
Plans after graduation: Continue my basketball career and to be a physical therapist
Favorite movie: Friday
Favorite type of music: Hip-hop
Favorite food: Chicken wings
Favorite professional sports team: Los Angeles Lakers
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite TV show: It is a tie between My Wife and Kids and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Most prized possession: My autographed Shaq shoes
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (Apr. 16, 2010) — Dr. Paul Walker and his wife, Kathryn, have made an unprecedented donation to expand the strengths and raise awareness of the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center while also hoping to spark the community to give in support of the cancer center.
Walker, an associate professor at the Brody School of Medicine and director of the thoracic oncology clinic, and his wife have given $500,000 to the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation to be used to fund an endowed professorship in oncology and support research by faculty members. The gift is the largest ever made to the university by a faculty member.
The gift was announced at today's ECU board of trustees meeting.
Of the amount, $333,000 will draw a state match of $167,000 to fund the professorship. The rest will serve as seed grants to jump-start promising research so scientists can collect data and subsequently apply for larger grants.
The faculty member who holds the professorship will be called the Paul R. and Kathryn M. Hettinger Walker Distinguished Professor of Clinical Oncology.
"I firmly think there are a lot of strengths here," Paul Walker said. "I believe there's a lot of growth that can be accomplished. I'm committed to building a program, and that's very exciting. Kathy and I both know, and we want everyone to know, that the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center provides the best cancer care east of I-95 and very honestly a person is not going to get better cancer care anywhere."
Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine, praised the Walkers' generosity and desire to advance cancer research.
"What makes this even more special is that this has been provided by one of our own faculty," Cunningham said. "This physician has a unique perspective as to the value of this support. Being a professional who works with some of our most vulnerable patients adds to the level of compassion that this gift reflects."
Carole Novick, associate vice chancellor for health sciences development and alumni and president of the foundation, said the donation is one that will benefit eastern North Carolina.
"Kathy and Paul Walker believe strongly in the importance of the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center to our community," Novick said. "They see its potential and know that a donation of this magnitude will help to build on the strengths of the center, making possible expanded research and patient care. This $500,000 gift, the largest ever from an ECU faculty member, is a challenge to others to join in support for our local cancer center. These dollars will stay in our community."
Walker came to ECU about five years ago from Indiana in the prime of his career in private practice. As a young physician, he had begun in internal medicine, but felt a calling to care for cancer patients. Thus, he entered a fellowship in medical oncology.
About that time, his father was diagnosed with colon cancer, which took his life. A brother-in-law died of brain cancer. That helped him see what cancer patients and their families go through, and he responded to his calling.
"It has shaped my view of how I think cancer should be treated and cared for," Walker said. "Every patient deserves to know that everything possible has been done, is being done and will always be done in the treatment of their cancer and care of them."
The Walkers want the cancer center to be the first place eastern North Carolinians think of when they think of cancer care. They also want to make sure the center stays at the forefront in technology, research and patient care.
"Paul and Kathy Walker's gift is a signal to the region and to the state of the loyalty and the confidence that the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center inspires among those who know it best," said Dr. Adam Asch, chief of hematology/oncology at ECU. "I hope that their profound generosity inspires newfound interest in the community and across the state in our mission of bringing state-of-the-art cancer care to our region."
Since Walker arrived at ECU, the number of patients being cared for in his thoracic oncology clinic has doubled. The clinic saw more than 200 new patients in fiscal year 2008-2009, and the number is rising. Among the new approaches to care he's working on is one that involves radiation oncologists and changes the timing of chemotherapy and radiation to target tumors when they are most vulnerable.
"Dr. Walker has been a leader in establishing multidisciplinary care as a model that our center embraces and, in the region, is uniquely qualified to deliver," Asch said. "New, more successful therapies for cancer will require such collaborative approaches."
Kathryn Walker was a director of diagnostic imaging when she and Paul, then a young physician, met "over patient care," she said. "Patient care is very important to both of us."
She added that her husband wants to make sure ECU is known as a place where patients receive innovative care, feel they are in a "safe haven" and know they are receiving all the care that's available.
"That's one of Paul's mantras, that everything that can be done will be done," she said.
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HEY EVERYONE!! CPA agreed to my pay for delete!! The balance was less than $150. I spoke with a great representive ( a supervisor) who listened to me and was very polite, she agreed to plea my case to my supervisor and emailed me a letter "... We have instructed Equifax, Experian, and Transunion credit reporting agencies to delete this account from their records as of 3-20-2012."
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I also just requested a PFD with this CA via an email address I received from these forums. I did a lot of preliminary work PRIOR to sending the email, but eventually it paid off. For me, it helped that I had such a long documentation trail to include with email; she replied within minutes and stated that it would be deleted.
The best part.. I didn't even have to pay anything. It has since been deleted all my CRA reports (within 10 days of the email even though she said to allow 3-4 weeks). Victory!!! I will say though, that you may have a harder time getting these removed if you haven't "appeared" as though you have exhausted all avenues first. In other words, if your first effort is to email an executive.. um yeah, probably not gonna happen. Go through the motions. Be patient.
But it is possible. Good luck.
I had/have an $80 collection with CPA. Actually, on my credit reports I have TWO entries for the same thing but with different account numbers. This is the only negative things on my reports! The $80 is a Time Warner charge from 2006!
I sent a half dozen letters to CPA and got no response. Ultimately, and this may have been the wrong move, I called TW and finally tracked down what the charge was. It was just ONE $80 charge, not two. I paid them, the OC.
At that point I thought I had nothing to loose so I called CPA. After 20 minutes of waiting and tons of personal info to track down the account, I got sent up to a manager or "floor supervisor". I told her they will be getting contacted by TW that I have paid the charges. She said "Ok, so what can I do for you?". I explained that I have TWO entries on my credit reports for the same thing, which is incorrect. She looked it up and agreed. And then asked again, "what can I do for you?". I said "Well, for the past 6 years I've had TWO negative entries when it shouldn't have been like that. What are you going to do to make amends?" She explained that once they receive contact from the OC they will contact me and discuss it.
Did I do this wrong? I HAD to get it taken care of. Even if that means it just being turned over to "Paid" and not deleted. Should I have paid the CA instead of the OC? What kind of recourse can I take with the double entries? They should, at the very least, delete one of them right?
The collection is for $266
Yeah they should delete one. I would dispute it throuh the CRAs if you haven't already. Are they both reporting as "Paid"? I have to say that you lost all leverage by paying it off. At this point, you should shift your focus to GW letters to the CA. All you did by paying the charge was acknowledge that you owed it in the first place.


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President Obama is taking a calculated gamble in seeking congressional backing before launching a military strike at Syria to degrade the Assad regime's ability to launch further chemical strikes against its people. His calculations in this case are the right ones.
In making the case for military action to Congress, the administration will also be presenting its arguments to the American people. If the president is successful, U.S. actions against Syria will carry greater weight on the international stage for his having used the democratic process to build consensus.
On the domestic side, the public will at least have a greater understanding of the decision to act and its implications than would have been the case had President Obama used his executive authority to act quickly and independently, presenting his arguments subsequently.
The discussion with Congress is also engaging a broader discussion on a Syrian strategy - which up to now has been sorely lacking - with the expectation of achieving President Obama's stated goal of reaching a negotiated political settlement that removes Syrian President Bashar Assad from power and ends the fighting.
Tired of expending U.S. blood and wealth in Iraq and Afghanistan, many question why it should be this nation's concern if a Middle Eastern tyrant should choose to unleash chemical weapons on his own people - on Aug. 21 killing about 1,500, many of them sleeping children, when the missile shells with Sarin gas landed at 2 a.m. in a rebel-friendly Damascus suburb.
But those who would turn a blind eye must accept that the message Mr. Assad would receive from inaction is that chemical weapons remain an option as he seeks to suppress the rebellion. And, in failing to act on Mr. Assad's crossing of President Obama's red line, what credibility would the United States have when it states that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable?
After flawed intelligence and manipulated information about the immediate threat of weapons of mass destruction led to the invasion of Iraq (there were no WMDs and no immediate threat), skepticism about the reports of chemical attacks in Syria is understandable. But, unlike Iraq, evidence grows that the chemical weapons were used by the Assad forces. Another advantage of the congressional debate is more time for that evidence to be presented and vetted.
As for the nature of any U.S. military action, as President Obama states, "This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan." Under discussion is a limited campaign, likely using cruise missiles to target the dictator's command and control structures, damage military facilities used in delivering chemical attacks and potentially destroying his palaces.
The intent is to change Mr. Assad's calculation, making the cost of utilizing chemical weapons much higher than employing them.
It is not without risk. Syria, Iran or their mutual non-state ally, Hezbollah, could lash out at third-party states, daring the United States to escalate. But the risk of doing nothing and inviting future recklessness by these regimes is greater.
There are also indications that the administration is considering increased U.S. support for the Free Syrian Army, seen as the moderate option among the rebel forces aligned against Mr. Assad. Fear has grown that al-Qaida sympathizers and other jihadists, aligned with the Ahrar al-Sham Brigade, have gained the upper hand among rebel forces and any arms supplied to support the rebellion could fall into their hands.
In a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, however, Elizabeth O'Bagy, a senior analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, who has spent hundreds of hours on the ground with rebel groups, reports that moderate, pro-democracy forces remain viable and in control of large swaths of the divided nation. They should receive greater U.S. support if the goal is to strive towards an eventual outcome in Syria that aligns with U.S. interests in the Middle East.
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KINGS POINT, N.Y. – The Gallaudet University football team suffered a heartbreaking loss to the United States Merchant Marine Academy on Saturday afternoon as the Mariners scored a touchdown with one second left on the clock to steal the victory away from the Bison, 35-34, before 1,012 at Tomb Field.
Bison senior quarterback Jimmy Gardner (St. Augustine, Fla.) scored his second touchdown in the fourth quarter when he ran in from two yards out to give GU a 32-28 lead with 1:10 left in regulation. Gallaudet (0-1) converted the 2-point conversion to increase the lead to six.
USMMA (1-0) then drove 59 yards on 10 plays in just over a minute to win the game. Mariner quarterback Derrick Ventre (18-for-33, 177 yards) sailed a high pass to the left corner of the end zone as the final seconds ticked off the clock. Mariner receiver Chaise Dunn came down with the 11-yard pass to tie the game at 34. Kicker Richard Grennen made his fifth extra-point of the game to seal the win.
"We had plenty of opportunities to win it," said Gallaudet's Chuck Goldstein after his collegiate head coaching debut. "We gave a great effort on both sides of the ball. We are well ahead of where we were last year. We need to regroup because we have nine more opportunities to win."
The loss ends a three-game winning streak for the Bison that dated back to October 24, 2009. Gallaudet lost to USMMA 38-14 last season at home.
Prior to the final minute of regulation the Bison had controlled the tempo and pace of the fourth quarter. Gallaudet had two possessions in the decisive fourth and milked nearly 10 minutes off the clock en route to reclaiming the lead.
USMMA running back Karl Heimbrock (155 rushing yards) scored his third touchdown of the game two minutes into the fourth quarter to give the Mariners a 28-20 lead. GU needed to answer as the Merchant Marine Academy had scored 21 unanswered points in the second half.
Bison returner Phillip Hayes (Baton Rouge, La.) fielded the kick-off, broke several tackles and scampered 70 yards down to the Mariner 16-yard line. Five plays later, Gardner ran in from five yards out to cut the lead to 28-26. The Bison opted for the 2-point conversion to try and knot the game at 28 but Gardner's run was stopped short of the end zone.
Gallaudet's special teams struggled, especially at the kicking game, as the Mariners received great field position all day. USMMA's average field position for the game was at its own 47-yard line.
The Mariners started its second to last drive of the game at Gallaudet's 37-yard line after a penalty and a short kick to boot. USMMA was set to add more points to its lead as it sat at the 4-yard line with 8:55 left in the game. Heimbrock was hit in the backfield and coughed up the ball as junior defensive lineman Shawn Holder (Lemon Grove, Calif.) came up with the fumble.
The Bison then turned in their longest drive of the game (94 yards on 16 plays) which ended with a Gardner 2-yard plunge into the end zone. GU had chewed up seven minutes and 39 seconds off the clock. Senior running back Cole Johnson (Eden Prairie, Minn.) converted the 2-point conversion. Gallaudet converted 2-of-5 2-point conversions and did not attempt an extra-point kick.
Gardner had a career day passing the ball as he completed 4-of-9 attempts for 86 yards and one touchdown. Gardner threw a 26-yard touchdown to sophomore Ryne Worsham (Chicago, Ill.) at the end of the second quarter to give the Bison a 14-7 lead. Gardner ran the ball 15 times for 40 yards and two touchdowns in the loss.
Hayes led the Bison ground attack as he recorded 103 yards on 11 carries. He gained over half of that total on a 59-yard reverse that resulted in a touchdown to start the second half for the Bison. GU led 20-7 with 11:32 left in the third quarter. The Hayes touchdown was set-up after Gallaudet safety Shelby Bean (Arvada, Colo.) intercepted Ventre at the Bison 40.
USMMA got on the board first when Heimbrock scored his first touchdown of the game late in the first quarter. GU outscored USMMA 14-0 in the second quarter and took a 14-7 lead into halftime.
Bison sophomore running back Ryan Bonheyo (Frederick, Md.) made a splash in his Gallaudet debut as he scored the team's first touchdown of 2010 on a 6-yard run with 5:04 left in the second quarter. A Mariner fumble, one of three in the game, allowed the Bison to add another touchdown before the half.
Gallaudet, a top 10 rushing offense last season in Division III, racked up 294 yards on the ground and had 380 yards of total offense. Junior fullback Mike Gimeli (Deerpark, N.Y.) had 79 yards on 18 carries while Johnson tallied 52 yards and Bonheyo added 20 yards.
USMMA gained one more yard then Gallaudet when it came to total offensive yards (381). In fact, the 381 total offensive yards is the most a Bison defense had allowed in 10 games since the Mariners totaled 398 yards in last year's season-opener at Hotchkiss Field. Heimbrock's 155 rushing yards are the most the Bison have surrendered in at least two years. Last season the most a running back gained on the Bison was 137.
Sophomore linebacker Tom Pangia (Hammonton, N.J.) led all Bison defenders with 14 tackles. Junior transfer linebacker Ty Primous (Lynwood, Ill.) had a nice debut with seven tackles, one for a loss of two yards.
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As was expected, Big Biotech's legal juggernaut has rolled into action in Hawai'i. On Friday afternoon, three big agrochemical companies — Pioneer-DuPont, Syngenta, and Agrigenetics Inc (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical) — filed a suit in a federal court in Honolulu seeking to block Kauai County's new GMO regulatory law. Two other big agribusiness concerns on the island that will be affected by the law — Kauai Coffee and BASF — haven't joined the suit.
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The law, Ordinance 960 (formerly known as Bill 2491), was passed in November after surviving a veto by Kauai Mayor Barnard Carvalho. (Read my report on the rather torturous process here). It requires agricultural companies and large farms to disclose the type and volume of pesticides they are spraying and the location of their genetically modified crop fields. It also requires the companies to set up buffer zones between fields growing GM crops and public places like schools, hospitals, and parks. The law is scheduled to go into effect August 16.
A similar regulatory bill was introduced on the island of Maui in December, just days after the mayor of Hawai'i Island, Billy Kenoi, signed into law a bill restricting biotech companies and farmers from growing any new genetically modified crops on that island.
Hawai'i has turned into the latest battleground of the conflict over genetically modified crops. There's been a growing grassroots opposition against the five big biotech companies — Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow Agrochemicals and BASF — that have been expanding their operations here, occupying tens of thousands of acres of former sugar and pineapple plantation lands to grow and test transgenic seeds. Hawai'i currently has the largest number of experimental GMO crops in the United States.
The lawsuit against Kauai is clearly the biotech industry's first retaliatory salvo against the series of legal initiatives introduced by local governments to curb their activities on the islands.
The 84-page suit claims that the Kauai law was explicitly drafted "to discriminate against GM seed farming operations on Kauai" and that it violates their federal and state constitutional rights to equal protection and due process.
"Bill 2491 irrationally prohibits Plaintiffs from growing any crops, whether genetically modified or not, within arbitrarily drawn buffer zones inapplicable to other growers, and restricts Plaintiffs' pesticide use within those buffer zones," the suit states. It says that if the companies are forced to reveal the location of their transgenic crop fields they will face the risk of "commercial espionage, vandalism, and theft" and that all these "burdensome operational restrictions and civil and criminal penalties" have no legal justification and would hurt their businesses economically. It says the bill was "tailored to avoid impacting others who use pesticides on Kaua'i to grow non-GM crops and for other purposes."
Paul Minehart, a Syngenta spokesman told Reuters that the ordinance attempts to regulate activities over which counties in Hawai'i have no jurisdiction. "These activities are already regulated by governmental agencies under state and federal laws," he said. *
The biotech companies mainly grow seed crops on the island, including soybean, canola, rice and seed corn — which is Kauai's number one crop. But they also have trial plots where they test genetically modified seeds for pesticide resistance. Hawaii's warm climate allows for three corn crop harvests in a year, which makes it a perfect place to experiment with seeds. The companies say Kauai's climate gives them the "the invaluable opportunity to triple or quadruple the pace of development of GM crops."
It's this "triple or quadruple pace of development of GM crops" that has been of increasing concern to many islanders and what led to the passage of the bill in the first place.
Many residents, especially those living on the west side of the island where most of the biotech companies' fields are located, are deeply concerned about the health and environmental impact of the large volumes of pesticides used these fields. Three to four crop harvests a year, they say, means a tripling or quadrupling of the amount of pesticide used — way over what's used in fields, GMO or otherwise — on typical farms. Many local doctors and nurses, teachers and parents are especially worried that exposure to pesticides is harming children.
On several occasions between 2006 and 2008, students and teachers at Waimea Canyon Middle School, which is near a Syngenta field, complained of noxious odors. In one instance the school had to be evacuated and some children were sent to the hospital. Some doctors say the region seems to have unusually high rates of asthma, cancer and birth defects. However, there have been few studies investigating these allegations and the cause of the students' ill health. (The lawsuit uses the lack of health impact studies to claim that Ordinance 960 is not "based on sound scientific data or a thorough risk assessment.")
Kauai Councilman Gary Hooser, who co-authored the bill, says it was drawn up because despite repeated requests from residents the companies either withheld information, or outright lied, about their agricultural practices.
"I expected it and I didn't," Hooser said on Saturday, referring to the lawsuit. "In a way, I expected them to honor the democratic process also. It should have been predictable given their history of being corporate thugs around the world, but I tend to optimistic." He said a team of environmental lawyers, including attorneys from EarthJustice and Center for Food Safety, who've promised to fight the case for the council pro bono, "are confident that the law is defensible and solid."
Paul Achitoff, a Honolulu-based attorney with EarthJustice, says the lawsuit's arguments aren't legally sound. "They have a very long list of complaints. Basically they've thrown everything up against the wall hoping something would stick," he said. "Of course you never know, a judge might buy one of the arguments."
On Saturday, some Kauai residents expressed frustration that while the companies acknowledged the benefits of business on Kauaʻi, they have been unwilling to address people's concerns.
"As a west side resident who is surrounded by the test fields of these companies, it is my basic human right to know what they are exposing me and my family to on a regular basis. Their actions prove that they do not value the health and well-being of our community, and are only interested in their corporate profit," Malia Chun, a local educator and community activist, said in a statement.
In their lawsuit, the biotech companies allege that: "Bill 2491 will cause damage to Plaintiff's goodwill and reputation." Seems to me the companies are doing a pretty good job of doing that damage to themselves. Big corporations suing a small island council that's trying, in good faith, to protect its people — not the best PR move, is it?
*Syngenta has so far not responded to my interivew requests. Neither has anyone from the Hawaii Crop Improvement Association (HCIA) that represents the biotech seeds industry. Back in December, Mark Phillipson, corporate affairs chief at Syngenta, Hawaii, and HCIA president, had this to say in response to my interview request: "Syngenta Hawaii strives to respond to local and major mainstream news media requests for information. Due to our level of resources, we cannot always respond to other media outlets and do not provide facility tours." He did say he would answer specific questions if I emailed them to him. I've done so, asking him to respond in his capacity as HICA president. I am awaiting his reply. Though, really, the lawsuit answers most of the questions I'd asked him.
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Here here Robert! I second that. I also say forget spraying disclosure, buffer zones, and the like. I don't want these companies here period. The land owners need to take responsibility and kick these companies off the land! Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, BASF only care about money at the end of the day. If anyone thinks they are here to help feed the world or give a hoot about people's health they are sadly mistaken. They would pollute the whole world if they could for the sake of PROFIT. Taking the voice away from the citizens, which is what these companies are aiming to do with this ridiculous lawsuit, is alarming and should not be tolerated by anyone in government. Worried that Bill 2491 will cause damage to their "goodwill and reputation"?! HA! Oh yes, it may hurt their precious PROFITS! Forget it, the democratic process means nothing to them. They will continue to poison the land, water, air, people as long as they are allowed to. They will fight to continue doing so because they make good money doing it. Kick them out!
By Sheri on Wed, February 03, 2016 at 1:17 pm
Been thinking about a different approach. Instead of fighting from the back foot how about we draw a line in the concrete.
I have many concerns about gmo's but my biggest issue is about my inability to choose wether I eat them or not. What if I don't want to be a part of the experiment. Labelling.
I suggest a declaration of no consent.
We the undersigned people, declare that we hold the belief that GMO food products may have adverse health effects. That by providing GMO products un-labelled, manufacturers, resellers and the lawmakers who proposed or passed regulations that prevent us from being able to choose to avoid GMO products are responsible for removing our ability to choose.
If, at any time in the future it is discovered that GMO food products do have adverse side effects, we the undersigned people will seek compensation not limited to: damages, pain and suffering compensation and refunds of all money spent on GMO products, through individual or collective action in our respective countries.
I hearby declare I do not wish to be part of the GMO experiment.
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