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Are you the parent of a child with food allergies? Or are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? So you know how terrifying it can be. Such allergies can be life threatening because it isn't always possible to be certain some potentially deadly ingredient isn't lurking in an item.
Now life will be easier! You can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone.
A team of researchers from the University of Califonia, Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a new lightweight device that can attach to your mobile phone to detect food allergens in your favorite packaged foods.
Dubbed iTube, the attachment uses your mobile phone's built-in camera along with an accompanying smart-phone application that runs a test with the same high level of sensitivity a laboratory would. The test can also quantify exactly how much of an allergen — including peanuts, almonds, eggs, gluten and hazelnuts — is in the sample, in parts per million, the researchers say.
Weighing less than two ounces, the attachment analyzes a test tube–based allergen-concentration test known as a colorimetric assay.
To test for allergens, food samples are initially ground up and mixed in a test tube with hot water and an extraction solvent. The mixture is allowed to set for several minutes. Then the prepared sample is mixed with a series of other reactive testing liquids.
When the sample is ready, it is measured optically for allergen concentration through the iTube platform, using your mobile phone's camera and iTube app.
The test results are location and time stamped and the app uploads the data to iTube servers to create a personalized allergy database for statistical analysis.
"We envision that this cell phone–based allergen testing platform could be very valuable, especially for parents, as well as for schools, restaurants and other public settings," Aydogan Ozcan, leader of the research team said. "Once successfully deployed in these settings, the big amount of data – as a function of both location and time – that this platform will continuously generate would indeed be priceless for consumers, food manufacturers, policymakers and researchers, among others."Image source: http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1220283.1355510801!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/ucla-lab-chip.jpg http://mobihealthnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/iTube.jpg


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Grateful Dead
Keith's topic.
I have some old friends from Marin County, California that were friends with Keith. They told me Keith died in an automobile accident near Lagunitas, California on a curvy stretch of road now known as "Dead Man's Curve" because of all the accidents that have occurred there. According to my friends, Keith had played in a show with his band that he had with Steve Kimock earlier that day in Oakland. He was riding with another friend named Keith ( don't know last name) who was injured but was not killed.
Hope this helps,
wherever your spirit is i know you are having a great time playing-
I have really gotten into the 1971-1974 Dead so many great shows with Keith.
When PigPen and Keith toured together they band sounded great.
My new fave show is the 72 Spectrum
37 minute Dark Star? Unbelievable
And the road goes on forever....
We are grateful for your music, you are missed.
You can DL MP3s of two Keith and Donna Band shows (with Jerry in the band) from here
I was mistaken. drat. and double drat. ( -;
yeah, I was wondering if Pigpen was on that tour/show... I knew he was still alive, but not sure if he was playing. thanks for the clarification, hal.
There was a stint where Mickey, Pig, nor Donna were about - an interesting little time. When Pig returned that crucial blues element balanced everything and off they went. For me, this is as heart-of-gold as it got.
"From day to day, just lettin' it ride,
You get so far away from how it feels inside,
You can't let go, 'cause you're afraid to fall,
But the day may come when you can't feel at all."
Pigpen was not at this show or this tour. A comment is made about how he is sick and in bed.
Though later there were shows with both of them. I think by this time Pigpen's role as keyboard player was minimal, but still did some vocal leads and harp.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
2 guys on the keys, wow! How does that work? One take a lead role and one take a rythym role?
Didn't that happen with Hornsby and Welnick on occasions as well?
A dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago...
yup, his second show;
this was Keith's first:
Northrop Auditorium, U. Of Minn. - Minneapolis, MN
Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Mexicali Blues, Comes A Time, One More Saturday Night and Ramble On Rose were all played for the first time at that shpw.
folks, remember, PigPen was still alive at this time! 2 keyboard players if I am not mistaken.,..
yup, right you are, halr his second show.
this was Keith's first.
Northrop Auditorium, U. Of Minn. - Minneapolis, MN
Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Mexicali Blues, Comes A Time, One More Saturday Night and Ramble On Rose were all played for the first time at this show.


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Yalla Eat! Culinary Tours in Dearborn , MI
Yalla Eat! (Arabic for Let's go eat!) is an immersive culinary experience offered by the Arab American National Museum (AANM).
Through guided walking tours of Dearborn's Warren Avenue and Michigan Avenue, participants learn the story of Arab Americans in metro Detroit, including the history of Arab merchants on East Dearborn's busy commercial strips.
On the Yalla Eat! tours, guests will meet both small and large business owners eager to share the story of their family-run enterprises and savor the sights, sounds and delicious scents at bakeries, nut and coffee houses and fresh produce markets. Traditional Arabic hospitality is on full display, as generous samples are offered along with the stories of individuals, their families and their history.
This season's tour schedule is greatly expanded from previous years! Tours will be offered to the public on Saturdays from April through October. Tours will alternate between Michigan and Warren avenues.
Throughout the month of June, tours go on hiatus for the holy month of Ramadan.
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Warren Avenue tours begin and end at Super Greenland Market, 12715 W. Warren Ave., in the heart of the Arab American shopping district in East Dearborn. This tour highlights the historic presence of Arab Americans in Dearborn from the perspectives of owners of some of the most distinguished businesses in the community. Explore the intricate and rich culture of Dearborn through a culinary experience hosting the most authentic and uniquely crafted flavors and recipes passed down for generations.
Michigan Avenue tours begin and end at the Arab American National Museum, 13624 Michigan Ave., and offer a more diverse flavor profile of the Arab American community in Dearborn. Guests will have the opportunity to explore a wider variety of nationalities through their foods. There are more than a dozen Arab American food establishments along the Michigan Avenue corridor, including the popular Dearborn Fresh grocery store located just north of AANM.
In addition, AANM has published an updated version of its Yalla Eat! Culinary Map of Dearborn for self-guided exploration. It is available free of charge at the Museum admission desk 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. To view the map online, click HERE. To view a video of the Warren Avenue tour, click HERE.
Tickets for Yalla Eat! tours - $35 for Museum Members and $45 for the general public - are available in advance only on the AANM site. All participants receive a Yalla Eat! shopping tote, a Yalla Eat! culinary map of Dearborn (for self-guided exploration) and one complimentary admission to the Arab American National Museum.
Each tour is led by a Museum docent and is limited to 12 people to allow for an intimate and interactive experience. Tours run approximately 2.5 hours; comfortable walking shoes required. Many stops offer free food samples, and shopping is encouraged.
Custom tours are individual and private group tours available by reservation only and are designed to offer a more flexible and intimate tour experience. Custom tour rates differ from those of standard tours due to the wider date and time options available.
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CAIRO—Hard-line Islamists and old-regime stalwarts are united in an unlikely alliance to back Egypt's draft constitution ahead of next week's referendum, which supporters hope will lend legitimacy to last summer's popular military coup.
The document, drafted by a 50-member committee selected by the military, looks in some ways similar to the 2012 charter that was largely written by Islamists. But unlike that charter, which the military cast aside in July, along with the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first freely...


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Coalbed methane wells typically produce large volumes of water when they are operated according to traditional practice. The water is pumped out of the well, liberating methane gas from the coal seam. The removal of water from wells not only has a cost related to pumping and handling, but disposal of the water creates a separate set of problems as well as costs. These costs cause most CBM wells to become economically unfeasible in a relatively short time period. The result has been the shutting-in or abandonment of thousands of wells throughout the region. Nutech Energy Resources, Inc. is uniquely poised not only to remedy this problem for the industry, but to acquire and profitably operate wells that were previously cost prohibitive.
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MUMBAI: Percept Media has appointed Navroze Hodiwala as general manager – strategy.
Allied Media CEO Shripad G. Kulkarni said, "Percept is easily India's best on classical 360. We are now integrating our strategic efforts across Media Companies so that clients will get, for the first time, a truly single window 360 strategy. We will soon unveil our plans in this direction. Navroze has a wide exposure and is just the right person for the job."
Prior to joining Allied Media, Hodiwala was associated with TME where he was heading the Mumbai Branch as general manager.


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Lauren Oliver Quotes About HateQuotes about: Hate
You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.
I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.
If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can't say it; it is too close to passion, and passion is too close to love, and love is amor deliria nervosa, the deadliest of all deadly things: It is the reason for the games of pretend, for the secret selves, for the spasms in the throat.


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Apartment in Toulouse
I am looking for an apartment in Toulouse but it seems rather difficult. Probably there is a law here that states that you can't rent certain apartments unless you payed tax in France for at least the last two years. I also got rejected ones because the project I am working on last only a certain time, therefore the contract that's been made is not permanent, which was needed (a CDI) to rent the apartment.
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Before the Pennsylvania primary in the 2008 presidential election, then Senator Barack Obama made a speech at a fundraiser in which he referred to working class whites as being "bitter." This was referred to as a "gaffe" and became a central theme in news reporting over the next two weeks.
On Morning Edition, NPR included comments from the Republican congressional leadership that the United States is "broke" and therefore has no choice but to make very large cuts in the budget. Of course this is not true. Investors are willing to lend the United States trillions of dollars at historically low interest rates. This means that the government is not broke. There is no evidence that it is coming up against any serious spending or borrowing limitation.
This inaccurate representation of a basic issue about the financial health of the U.S. government would have been worth pointing out to listeners. It almost certainly matters more to most of the public than President Obama's comment about working class whites being bitter.


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Sunday READ – 3 November 2013
By Chris Hedges, PopularResistance
"Did you ever ask yourself how it happens that government and capitalism continue to exist in spite of all the evil and trouble they are causing in the world?" the anarchist Alexander Berkman wrote in his essay "The Idea Is the Thing." "If you did, then your answer must have been that it is because the people support those institutions, and that they support them because they believe in them."
Berkman was right. As long as most citizens believe in the ideas that justify global capitalism, the private and state institutions that serve our corporate masters are unassailable. When these ideas are shattered, the institutions that buttress the ruling class deflate and collapse. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface. It is a battle the corporate state is steadily losing. An increasing number of Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most basic and cherished civil liberties, and live under the gaze of the most intrusive security and surveillance apparatus in human history. Half the country lives in poverty. Many of the rest of us, if the corporate state is not overthrown, will join them. These truths are no longer hidden.
It appears that political ferment is dormant in the United States. This is incorrect. The ideas that sustain the corporate state are swiftly losing their efficacy across the political spectrum. The ideas that are rising to take their place, however, are inchoate. The right has retreated into Christian fascism and a celebration of the gun culture. The left, knocked off balance by decades of fierce state repression in the name of anti-communism, is struggling to rebuild and define itself. Popular revulsion for the ruling elite, however, is nearly universal. It is a question of which ideas will capture the public's imagination.
Revolution usually erupts over events that would, in normal circumstances, be considered meaningless or minor acts of injustice by the state. But once the tinder of revolt has piled up, as it has in the United States, an insignificant spark easily ignites popular rebellion. No person or movement can ignite this tinder. No one knows where or when the eruption will take place. No one knows the form it will take. But it is certain now that a popular revolt is coming. The refusal by the corporate state to address even the minimal grievances of the citizenry, along with the abject failure to remedy the mounting state repression, the chronic unemployment and underemployment, the massive debt peonage that is crippling more than half of Americans, and the loss of hope and widespread despair, means that blowback is inevitable.
"Because revolution is evolution at its boiling point you cannot 'make' a real revolution any more than you can hasten the boiling of a tea kettle," Berkman wrote. "It is the fire underneath that makes it boil: how quickly it will come to the boiling point will depend on how strong the fire is."
Revolutions, when they erupt, appear to the elites and the establishment to be sudden and unexpected. This is because the real work of revolutionary ferment and consciousness is unseen by the mainstream society, noticed only after it has largely been completed. Throughout history, those who have sought radical change have always had to first discredit the ideas used to prop up ruling elites and construct alternative ideas for society, ideas often embodied in a utopian revolutionary myth. The articulation of a viable socialism as an alternative to corporate tyranny—as attempted by the book "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" and the websitePopular Resistance—is, for me, paramount. Once ideas shift for a large portion of a population, once the vision of a new society grips the popular imagination, the old regime is finished. […]
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout
The story of Fukushima should be on the front pages of every newspaper. Instead, it is rarely mentioned. The problems at Fukushima are unprecedented in human experience and involve a high risk of radiation events larger than any that the global community has ever experienced. It is going to take the best engineering minds in the world to solve these problems and to diminish their global impact.
When we researched the realities of Fukushima in preparation for this article, words like apocalyptic, cataclysmic and Earth-threatening came to mind. But, when we say such things, people react as if we were the little red hen screaming "the sky is falling" and the reports are ignored. So, we're going to present what is known in this article and you can decide whether we are facing a potentially cataclysmic event.
Either way, it is clear that the problems at Fukushima demand that the world's best nuclear engineers and other experts advise and assist in the efforts to solve them. Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.org and an international team of scientists created a 15-point plan to address the crises at Fukushima.
A subcommittee of the Green Shadow Cabinet (of which we are members), which includes long-time nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman, is circulating a sign-on letter and a petition calling on the United Nations and Japanese government to put in place the Gundersen et al plan and to provide 24-hour media access to information about the crises at Fukushima. There is also a call for international days of action on the weekend of November 9 and 10. The letter and petitions will be delivered to the UN on November 11 which is both Armistice Day and the 32nd month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster. […]
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By Dean Baker, Post Globalization Initiative
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) stands at the top of the Obama administration's trade agenda. The argument from its supporters is that this agreement is part of the never ending quest for freer trade. The evidence from what we know of this still secret pact is that the TPP has little to do with free trade. It can more accurately be described as a pact designed to increase the wealth and power of crony capitalists.
At this point, with few exceptions formal trade barriers, such as tariffs and quotas, are not very large. If lowering or eliminating the formal barriers that remain were the main agenda of this pact, there would be relatively little interest. Rather, the purpose of the pact is to use an international trade agreement to create a regulatory structure that is much more favorable to corporate interests than they would be able to get through the domestic political process in the United States and in the other countries in the pact.
The gap between free trade and the agenda of the TPP is clearest in the case of prescription drugs. The U.S. drug companies have a major seat at the negotiating table. They will be trying to craft rules that increase the strength of patent and related protections. The explicit purpose is to raise (as in not lower) the price of drugs in the countries signing the TPP.
Note that this goal is the opposite of what we would expect in an agreement designed to promote free trade. Instead of having drug companies at the table, we might envision that we would have representatives of consumer groups who would try to negotiate rules that could ensure safe drugs at lower prices. Instead of using a "trade" agreement to try to push drug prices in other countries up, we could actually use trade to bring the price of drugs in the United States down to the levels seen elsewhere. […]
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FR: Lori Wallach and Todd Tucker, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
DT: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
RE: Public Interest Analysis of Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Investment Text
After more than two years of negotiations under conditions of extreme secrecy, on June 12, 2012, a leaked copy of the investment chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement was posted at http://tinyurl.com/tppinvestment. Public Citizen has verified that the text is authentic.
The leaked text provides stark warnings about the dangers of "trade" negotiations occurring without press, public or policymaker oversight. It reveals that negotiators already have agreed to many radical terms granting expansive new rights and privileges for foreign investors and their private corporate enforcement through extra-judicial "investor-state" tribunals.
Although TPP has been branded as a "trade" agreement, the leaked text shows that TPP would limit how signatory countries may regulate foreign firms operating within their boundaries, with requirements to provide them greater rights than domestic firms. The leaked text reveals a two-track legal system, with foreign firms empowered to skirt domestic courts and laws to directly sue TPP governments in foreign tribunals. There they can demand compensation for domestic financial, health, environmental, land use laws and other laws they claim undermine their new TPP privileges.
The leak also reveals that all countries involved in TPP talks – except Australia – have agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of such foreign tribunals, which would be empowered to order payment of unlimited government Treasury funds to foreign investors over TPP claims. As revealed in Section B of the leaked text, these tribunals would not meet standards of transparency, consistency or due process common to TPP countries' domestic legal systems or provide fair, independent or balanced venues for resolving disputes between sovereign nations and private investors. For instance, in a manner that would be unethical for judges, the tribunals would be staffed by private sector lawyers that rotate between acting as "judges" and as advocates for the investors suing the governments.
U.S. negotiators are alone in seeking to expand this extra-judicial enforcement system to also allow the use of foreign tribunals to enforce contracts foreign investors may have with a government for government procurement or to operate utilities contracts and even for concessions related to natural resources on federal lands. (Text that is not yet agreed in the leaked text appears in square brackets and Public Citizen has seen a version of the text that lists which countries support various proposals.)
While 600 official U.S. corporate advisors have access to TPP texts and have a special role in advising U.S. negotiators, for the public, press and policymakers, this leak provides the first access to one of the proposed agreement's most controversial chapters. In May, Sen. Ron Wyden, the Chair of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Trade – the U.S. congressional committee with jurisdiction over TPP – submitted legislation requiring that access be provided to members of Congress and their staff after he and his staff were denied access to even the U.S. TPP text proposals submitted during negotiations.
The TPP may well be the last trade agreement that the U.S. negotiates. This is because the TPP, if completed, would have a new feature: it would be open for any other country to later join. TPP offered an opportunity to develop a new trade agreement model that could deliver the benefits of expanded trade without undermining signatory nations' domestic public interest policies or establishing special privileges for foreign corporations. President Obama campaigned on fixing these investment rules to protect public interest. Unfortunately,PublicCitizen's analysis of this text shows that the U.S. positions do not reflect the changes that candidate Obama pledged to remedy this regime's threats. […]
READ [PDF] @ http://www.citizen.org/documents/Leaked-TPP-Investment-Analysis.pdf
By Naomi Klein, Alternet
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year's conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa's Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film-maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep-sea submersibles.
But it was Werner's own session that was attracting much of the buzz. It was titled "Is Earth F**ked?" (full title: "Is Earth F**ked? Dynamical Futility of Global Environmental Management and Possibilities for Sustainability via Direct Action Activism").
Standing at the front of the conference room, the geophysicist from the University of California, San Diego walked the crowd through the advanced computer model he was using to answer that question. He talked about system boundaries, perturbations, dissipation, attractors, bifurcations and a whole bunch of other stuff largely incomprehensible to those of us uninitiated in complex systems theory. But the bottom line was clear enough: global capitalism has made the depletion of resources so rapid, convenient and barrier-free that "earth-human systems" are becoming dangerously unstable in response. When pressed by a journalist for a clear answer on the "are we f**ked" question, Werner set the jargon aside and replied, "More or less."
There was one dynamic in the model, however, that offered some hope. Werner termed it "resistance" – movements of "people or groups of people" who "adopt a certain set of dynamics that does not fit within the capitalist culture". According to the abstract for his presentation, this includes "environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups". […]
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[…] Redefining "Imminent Threat"
In early 2013, a Department of Justice "white paper" surfaced that laid out the "Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen." The government lawyers who wrote the 16-page document asserted that the government need not possess specific intelligence indicating that an American citizen is actively engaged in a particular or active terror plot in order to be cleared for targeted killing. Instead, the paper argued that a determination from a "well-informed high level administration official" that a target represents an "imminent threat" to the United States is a sufficient basis to order the killing of an American citizen. But the Justice Department's lawyers sought to alter the definition of "imminent," advocating what they called a "broader concept of imminence."
They wrote, "The condition that an operational leader present an 'imminent' threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons will take place in the immediate future." The government lawyers argued that waiting for a targeted killing of a suspect "until preparations for an attack are concluded, would not allow the United States sufficient time to defend itself." They asserted that such an operation constitutes "a lawful killing in self-defense" and is "not an assassination."
Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU called the white paper a "chilling document," saying that "it argues that the government has the right to carry out the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen." Jaffer added, "This power is going to be available to the next administration and the one after that, and it's going to be available in every future conflict, not just the conflict against al-Qaeda. And according to the [Obama] administration, the power is available all over the world, not just on geographically cabined battlefields. So it really is a sweeping proposition."
In October 2002, as the Bush administration prepared to invade Iraq, Barack Obama gave the first major speech of his national political career. The then-state senator came out forcefully against going to war in Iraq, but he began his speech with a clarification. "Although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances… I don't oppose all wars." Obama declared, "What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." During his first campaign for president, Obama had blasted the Bush administration for fighting the wrong war — Iraq — and repeatedly criticized his opponent, Senator John McCain, for not articulating how he would take the fight to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
As his first term in office wound down, the overwhelming majority of U.S. military forces had been withdrawn from Iraq and plans for a similar drawdown in Afghanistan in 2014 were being openly discussed. The administration had succeeded in convincing the American public that Obama was waging a smarter war than his predecessor. As he ran for reelection, Obama was asked about charges from his Republican opponents that his foreign policy was based on appeasement. "Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement," Obama replied. "Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that."
As the war on terror entered a second decade, the fantasy of a clean war took hold. It was a myth fostered by the Obama administration, and it found a ready audience. All polls indicated that Americans were tired of large military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and the mounting U.S. troop casualties that came with them. A 2012 poll found that 83% of Americans supported Obama's drone program, with 77% of self-identified liberal Democrats supporting such strikes. The Washington Post–ABC News poll determined that support for drone strikes declined "only somewhat" in cases where a U.S. citizen was the target.
President Obama and his advisers seldom mentioned the drone program publicly. In fact, the first known confirmation of the use of armed drones by the president came several years into Obama's first term. It was not in the form of a legal brief or a press conference, but rather on a Google+ "Hangout" as the president took questions from the public. Obama was asked about his use of drones. "I want to make sure that people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties," Obama said. "For the most part, they have been very precise, precision strikes against al-Qaeda and their affiliates. And we are very careful in terms of how it's been applied." […]


text: DDR Expo 2017 is the very first European trade fair specialized in demolition, decontamination and recycling. It is an initiative to make circular economy possible on the construction sector, by bringing together the world of the demolition, decontamination and recycling trades. The DDR Expo 2017 is organized by EDA (the European Demolition Association) in partnership with EDI (the European Decontamination Institute) and with the support of the National Associations, professional associations and institutions engaged in the related activities.


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Change is Fun But…Closed Published by Kedar S. Bhatia April 28th, 2010 in Administrative, Statistics, Supreme Court, Vacancy
I'm sad to see Justice Stevens leave the Court for a variety of reasons that have been well documented by people smarter than me. I'm also excited to some change on the Court because the liberal wing needs a change of pace after it's dismal performance thus far in OT09.
The biggest problem, at least for me, is that with any new Justice comes a slew of recusals. New justices that come from circuit courts have an even higher recusal rate than other justices. The biggest problem with recusals is not the impact they have on the Court, but the impact they have on my term statistics. You cannot imagine how frustrating it is to have 5-3, 6-2, 7-1, or 8-0 opinions.
Unfortunately for me, President Obama probably won't take my concerns very seriously and is likely to appoint someone who will spark a slew of recusals. Tom Goldstein correctly noted that General Kagan would not spark as many recusals as some commentators have mentioned, but there are still at least 5 recusals from her alone. Judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland would likely recuse themselves from many cases coming from their circuits. Judge Wood's circuit, the Seventh Circuit, is the circuit that contributes the second greatest number of cases to the Supreme Court's docket while Judge Garland's circuit, the DC circuit, contributes relatively few every year.


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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The competitive international animated film festival known as Anima Mundi returns to Rio de Janeiro today, Friday July 25th for its 22nd edition. Complete with screenings of both short and full-length animated features from national and international filmmakers, as well as, professional workshops, forums and masterclasses in animation, the festival will run in multiple venues in the city through Sunday, August 3rd.
Fundição Progresso, located in the Rio neighborhood of Lapa, will again serve as the festival's principal site with Centro Cultural Light, Espaço Itaú de Cinema Botafogo, and Ipanema's Oi Futuro hosting additional screenings and programs.
Anima Mundi was founded in Rio de Janeiro 22 years ago, in 1993, by Marcos Magalhães, Lea Zagury, Aida Queiroz and Cesar Coelho. The four filmmakers and animators began the festival in the hopes of raising awareness in the city about the art and craft of animation. The festival grew over the years and is now the second largest animation festival in the Americas and second largest in the world.
In addition to Rio, Anima Mundi has taken place in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and Brasília. After Rio this year, the festival will go on to São Paulo from August 6th to 10th.
The festival's competitive section yearly grants awards for Best Short Film, Best Feature Film, Best Short Film for Children, Best Brazilian Short Film and Best Student Short Film. Jury prizes are also awarded for Best Animation Technique, Best Screenplay, Best Sound Design, Best Art Direction, Best Picture and Best Picture from the Gallery Session.
Additionally, because the Anima Mundi festival became qualified by the American Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences in 2012, the winner of the festival's professional jury award for Grand Prize for Short Film will become eligible to compete for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in next year's ceremony.
The Short Films category alone contains over one hundred films submitted by filmmakers from around the world. During the festival the shorts ("Curtas" in Portuguese) are shown in blocks of six to nine per screening with a total of fifteen blocks of competitive short films.
Notable shorts during this year's edition include; "Beyond the lines" by Chloé Bonnet, Séraphin Guery, Elodie Houard, Baptiste Lebouc, Pierre Tarsiguel (France); "BAD TOYS II" by Daniel Brunet and Nicolas Douste (France); "Marilyn Myller," by Mikey Please (UK); "Beasts in the Real World" by Sol Friedman (Canada); "Harald" by Moritz Schneider (Germany), "Beauty" by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro (Italy); "Edifício Tatuapé Mahal," by Carolina Markowicz and Fernanda Salloum (Brazil); and "A Recipe For Gruel" by Sharon Smith (UK).
The four feature films vying for 2014's best film award are; "Cheatin'" by Bill Plympton (United States); "Lisa Limone ja Maroc Orange: tormakas armulugu" (Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: a Rapid Love Story) by Mait Laas (Estonia); "O Apostolo" by Fernando Cortizo (Spain) and "Saibi" by Yeon Sangho (South Korea).
Additionally for masterclasses held during the festival special guest instructors include; American animator, Chris Landreth, Animator and Head of Character Animation of the How to Train Your Dragon series Simon Otto and American animator, film director and voice actor best known for his work with Disney, Eric Goldberg
Goldberg will return for the festival's "Animated Chat" series held at Fundição Progresso on July 31st as will animators Bob Balser, Sky D'Ellia, and Frédéric Guillaume on July 30th, August 1st and August 2nd respectively. For a the complete list of films, screening times and locations, see the Anima Mundi website.
What: Anima Mundi 2014
When: Friday, July 25th through August 3rd. Screenings and event times vary.
Where: The principal site is Fundição Progresso Rua dos Arcos 24, Lapa. For more information about screenings and programs held at Centro Cultural Light, Espaço Itaú de Cinema Botafogo, and Ipanema's Oi Futuro.
Entrance: R$5-R$10 per screening. Prices for masterclasses and other programs vary.
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text: Noise Not Music unofficially re-releases some more classic Japanese punk. Looking at Kuro's discography on discogs it's quite a mess, but this LP compiles all of the tracks from their essential releases: their first and second flexis, the Who the Helpless 8", and the Pinch and Ouch comp LP. In addition to having one of the gnarliest looks in the history of Japanese punk, Kuro were one of the pioneers as the Japanese scene transitioned from punk into hardcore. There's a bit of both in their sound... some of the riffiness of the Stalin (particularly the Trash LP), but also quite a lot of the wild, more aggressive sound of bands like the Execute (and even a little bit of Aburadako-esque weirdness for good measure). At the end of the day I wouldn't say that Kuro are as musically mind-blowing as any of the aforementioned bands, but they're definitely a first-rate 80s Japanese punk band and if you're interested in the history or even just the unique sound of early Japanese hardcore you should know this band's material. Not a lot in the way of info or extras on this boot, but it sounds great and will definitely get your fist pumping.


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Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty on Tuesday announced the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has ordered 16 workers' compensation insurance companies or groups to return a total of over $9.4 million in excessive profits to their policyholders.
Workers' compensation insurers are required to return excess profits pursuant to Section 627.215, Florida Statutes. The Office recently performed an evaluation of submitted data that included earned premium and incurred losses. The Office determined that 16 different workers' compensation insurance companies or groups realized excess profit as defined by statute for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 calendar/accident years.
"These results confirm the importance of the workers' compensation insurance reforms enacted by the Florida Legislature in 2003, which continue to yield positive results," stated Commissioner McCarty. "These premium refunds contribute to lowering costs for Florida businesses and in contributing to our state's future economic growth."
The 16 companies that have been ordered to return premiums include: American Interstate Insurance Co. ($867,843), Florists' Insurance Group ($83,131), Guard Insurance Group ($835,474), Hanover Insurance Group ($6,140), Harco National Insurance Co. ($4,530), Indiana Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Co. ($913), the Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies ($1,071,841), MAG Mutual Insurance Co. ($132,618), Memic Indemnity, Co. ($17,097), One Beacon Insurance Group ($733,028), Safety National Group ($136,512), St. Paul Travelers Group ($5,291,320), State Auto Mutual Group ($11,293), Transguard Insurance Company of America ($187,118), Ullico Casualty Co. ($29,927), and the Westfield Companies ($12,859).
The companies have 60 days from the date of the order to return the premiums or provide policy renewal credits to policyholders.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 6 isn't expected to launch for a few more months, but the rumor mill has already kicked into high gear. We've seen rumors which claim that the new device will be equipped with 6GB of RAM, but now we have a CPU-Z screenshot which shows the phone will sport 6GB of RAM along with a 5.8-inch QHD display and 32GB of internal storage.
There's no doubt that Android enthusiasts would be more than happy to get their greasy fingers on a Samsung phone with 6GB of RAM, but we're still wondering why anyone would actually need all that RAM in the first place. Yes, multi-taskers would certainly benefit from having more RAM, but we can't imagine that anyone is having issues with phone which currently have 4GB of RAM.
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Andrea Dworkin Quotes About ViolenceQuotes about: Violence
Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.
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The middle of the nineteenth century saw piano music raised to a pinnacle of perfection never before equalled nor since surpassed. The three men to whom this development is chiefly due are Shumann as composer, Liszt as pianist and Chopin as both player and composer.
Frederic Chopin, the "Poet of the Piano," has exerted a more subtle influence upon his art than any other writer of instrumental music. With but few exceptions he labored in one field-that of piano composition-and he expressed himself in the smaller musical forms. That a composition is colossal in proportions does not signify that it is great, and some of the shortest of Chopin's productions are gems of the rarest beauty. At the present time it is the test of a good pianist to be able to play his works with understanding.
He was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland, in 1809. His father was a Frenchman of high intelligence, and his mother a refined Polish woman. His early education and musical train ing were received in Warsaw, where he found excellent teachers. At an early age he distinguished himself as a pianist, his precocity causing much wonder. He was gladly received into the houses of titled nobility and found their habits entirely in keeping with his own fastidious tastes. At the age of twenty-one he left Poland to study in Paris, visiting Vienna on the way, where he gave several successful concerts. He was at that time already a composer of considerable note, a brilliant pianist of good general education and was well prepared to treat his art in a scholarly manner. There he remained, teaching and composing, until his death in 1849.
"He lived a retired life as composer and teacher, little known to the world at large, but honored and beloved by a circle of friends, which included some of the most accom plished musicians, artists and authors in Paris. Chopin was a man of exquisite refinement, delicate and high-strung, of an ardent, and in early life at least, playful disposition. The prevailing impression that he was morbid, over-sensitive and a prey to dejection comes from the records of his later years of declining health. The remarkable friendship between Chopin and George Sand, with the final rupture and its lamentable consequences, has done more than anything else to produce erroneous impressions of Chopin's disposition."'
Although he never again saw his beloved country, Chopin remained to the last an intense patriot. He, perhaps in a greater degree than any other composer, reflects his own character in his music. The two predominating elements of his productions are those of personality and nationality. He expresses himself with perfect clearness and reflects his own poetic soul. At times he seems rather too sensitive, but again he displays intense power and strength.
Poland had been a strong military power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its downfall, culminating in the seizure of Warsaw by the Russians, caused the deepest despair in that valiant little country. We find strong traces of the melancholy Polish temperament in Chopin's music and of its undaunted courage as well. In addition, French influence may be traced in the delicacy of his style and finish, and he possessed German mastery of musical science.
Contrary to the tendency of the time, Chopin did not give poetic titles to his pieces, but there is a clear poetic meaning behind his work. His sharp contrasts of mood, the vague ness of outline and variety of rhythm are all characteristics of the Romantic School. The running passages require a peculiar technique which he himself invented. He exacts great things of the pedal, fingers and wrist, and his compositions require the most delicate touch and an ear of the finest training. As a rule the best Chopin players are Poles and Russians, they having a national sympathy.
Although he seldom played in public concert halls, Chopin was one of the greatest pianists of his day. He had remarkable flexible hands and a peculiarly singing touch, while his sympathetic use of the pedal is said to have been a revelation. Schumann said, in describing his playing: "Imagine an aeolian harp that has all the scales, and that these are jumbled together by the hand of an artist into all sorts of fantastic arabesques, but in such a manner that a deep fundamental Cone and a softly singing tipper part are always audible, and you have an idea of his playing."
Polish folk-music is rich in songs and dances, and Chopin 'early acquainted himself with their melodies. The forms known as mazurka and polonaise originated in Poland. Chopin's mazurkas are imitations of national dances, but are enlarged and greatly developed. By means of intricate harmony and varied treatment the common dance becomes one of the higher musical forms. Chopin wrote his mazurkas in a style distinctly his own; no other composer has so fully caught the spirit of this national dance. Their fascination largely lies in the frequent change of mood-some are cheerful, others sad and depressing-and the Polish temperament is discernible in all.
The polonaise is a stately march, or procession, rather than a dance. It originated at court and was a most brilliant spectacle, often led by the king and queen. This dance of high society has now declined and is rarely danced at the present time. Chopin's polonaises may be divided into two classes: (1) those that are heroic, almost military in character, as the one in A flat, and (2) those that are melancholy in tone, as the F sharp minor polonaise.
The scherzos and ballades are among Chopin's finest work. Hitherto the scherzo had been a movement of a sonata, but he applied the form to an independent piece for piano. The bal lades were probably suggested by Polish poems; he is undoubtedly at his best in his ballades, etudes, impromptus and fantasies. The nocturnes are not so difficult of execution as the other compositions and are consequently better known. They are, for the most part, rather dreamy and languishing in their general tone and are responsible for the prevailing opinion that Chopin was sad and of an unhealthy temperament. The preludes are sketches rather than pieces, but each is complete in its form. They are original and beautiful in their conception and deserve more attention than they commonly receive. Chopin wrote nothing of importance for the orchestra; it is evident that he did not care to undergo the training necessary for this field of composition, for his orchestration is thin and uninteresting. He understood the powers of the piano perfectly and developed them to their utmost.
His last years were spent in great physical suffering and distress; his finances were at a low ebb and his final break with George Sand in 1847 added to his general unhappiness.


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Actors Kate Bosworth, Sophia Bush, Matt Damon (Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time award nominee, including 2016 nominee for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy), Chris Evans, Will Ferrell (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee), designer Tom Ford, Tom Hanks (four-time Golden Globe Award winner and eight-time award nominee), Jonah Hill (Golden Globe Award nominee), John Krasinski, singer Katy Perry, Andy Samberg (Golden Globe Award winner) and Amy Schumer are the third and final round of presenters announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.
The A-list group joins an already star-studded lineup of presenters that includes Amy Adams, Jaimie Alexander, Patricia Arquette, Melissa Benoist, Jim Carrey, Viola Davis, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson, Grant Gustin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin Hart, Amber Heard, Taraji P. Henson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Terrence Howard, Kate Hudson, Ken Jeong, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Lady Gaga, Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, J.K. Simmons, Jason Statham, Channing Tatum, Mark Wahlberg and Olivia Wilde.
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GENEVA (AP) — A crisis of huge proportions is brewing in Mali that could spread throughout the nine-nation Sahel region of northern Africa and beyond due to insufficient humanitarian aid for millions of people, top U.N. and U.S. officials said Friday.
Mali recently experienced a coup that emboldened rebels to seize the country's north. Islamist and other insurgent rebel factions have since been fighting each other as they try to keep ahold of northern Mali. The violence, and the imposition of harsh Islamic law in some areas, has forced many residents to flee their homes.
The officials warned that widespread hunger, displacement, insecurity, political unrest and other factors in Mali are putting countless lives at risk — and setting the stage for a global headache.
"There is a very serious threat for peace and security, not only for the whole region but, in my opinion, with global implications," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told reporters at the U.N. in Geneva. "We are witnessing in the Sahel a dramatic humanitarian situation."
Guterres appeared a press conference beside U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard, who oversees population, refugees and migration. They had just returned from a trip to visit Malian refugees in Burkina Faso.
Guterres said 260,000 Malian refugees have fled for neighboring Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso, which have kept their borders open and shared their food supplies despite the dire hunger crisis they face within their own nations. Some 200,000 people also have been displaced within Mali, facing dire conditions.
The U.N. humanitarian office says 18 million people already face severe hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel region. In Mali, many of those in need are beyond the reach of aid workers, the two officials said.
"The United States is very concerned about the crisis, and we're also concerned that's there not sufficient resources going to it," said Richard, adding the U.S. has contributed $355 million of aid and food to countries in the Sahel, including $34.5 million for refugees.
A group of middle-ranking soldiers toppled Mali's democratically elected president in March. After international pressure, they allowed an interim president to be named in April. But in May, that interim leader, Dioncounda Traore, was beaten up by a group of protesters, and left the country for medical treatment. He returned last week.
The initial coup gave insurgents in Mali an opening. Ethnic Tuareg rebels seeking secession took control of the country's north — an area larger than France — but were driven out in June by extremist Islamists with links to al-Qaida who vowed to introduce an ultra-strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Guterres said the threat goes "far beyond northern Mali" partly because many of the heavily armed fighters there have come from Libya, where they had been in the army and militias that supported the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and others have come from Nigeria, Somalia and Afghanistan.
The crisis in Mali could become conflated with the unrest in Sudan-South Sudan, Somalia and even Yemen, he said.
"So if proper humanitarian assistance is not provided, and if a political solution is not found, the risk of this conflict to go far beyond Mali is, in my opinion, enormous," Guterres said. "And the implications are very serious for the whole region. Let's not forget that many of the states of this region are very fragile."


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The issues and demographic shifts that gave President Barack Obama four more years are being widely debated. Less attention is going to how his campaign harnessed them to secure victory. Was this the first major election where, "It was tech wot won it"?
"A long campaign is now over. And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you've made me a better president."
President Barack Obama, victory speech, 7/11/12
The issues and demographic shifts that gave President Barack Obama four more years are being widely debated. Less attention is going to how his campaign harnessed them to secure victory. Was this the first major election where, "It was tech wot won it"?
Team Obama, led by David Plouffe and David Axelrod, made formidable use of the Internet in 2008 to promote the candidate, his themes of 'Change' and 'Hope', raise millions and turn out the vote.
In 2012, it changed its game.
There was plenty of social media and online advertising, but greater emphasis went behind the curtain on techniques such as data mining, profiling and targeted personal messaging.
That backroom work has been kept under wraps. The campaign believed (rightly, it turned out) it had data and tools that gave it a clear advantage over Mitt Romney's rival e-team. There was also a fear that openly discussing how thoroughly OfA was profiling supporters could provoke a backlash from Democrats themselves.
Finally, the 'top secret' lesson from the pre-campaign data and analysis was that Obama needed a very different strategy from 2008. But that remains where the story begins.
The long game
Elections end and campaign teams usually disband. In 2008, Axelrod and Plouffe retained their core Obama for America web staff though some left to friendly e-politics start-ups.
The most important was Bully Pulpit Interactive (www.bpimedia.com), founded by Andrew Bleeker, director of Internet Advertising at OfA. This year, BPI was the main agency for Obama's online advertising spend of, according to the Federal Election Commission, more than $50m (Romney spent $26m).
During the president's first term, OfA was described publicly as a vehicle for continued communication with supporters. Importantly though, its role extended into 'two-way traffic', turning registered users into a permanent focus group. That web team today comprises more than 200 programmers, analysts and other staff.
Before the election, OfA tracked supporters' reactions to its output, use of its tools and content, and behaviour on associated social media. It used the data to model voting patterns and research what might influence opinions of individual issues and Obama himself. Then, once the campaign was under way, it really got to work.
'Retail' politics
"The comparison is with retailers," one Obama staffer told E&T. "If you have one of their cards, they can see what you're buying and when. And they use that profile data to send you coupons."
It's clear how this can be transplanted to politics. It is also about things you are or are not 'buying'. The Obama campaign decided there were two particular features of retail profiling it needed to adapt.
The first was to build a big, stable sample and infrastructure.
"Your supermarket harvests from you every time you shop," the aide continues. "It builds a dataset of trends and behaviour over time. To be able to do the same thing [by keeping the OfA activity alive], gave us a serious advantage over Romney.
"We had four years' data, all off of a consistent methodology, all run through software that had gotten more and more mature. They had a year roughly of data of their own and then packets of GOP [Republican Party] data from various sources. It's not easy to put all that together. And it's not as deep."
The second feature was achieving granularity.
"Real-world focus groups are organizer-driven," the aide says. "You want to know as much as possible about the sample. But in the time you have with them, they [the groups] tend to come back to the hot buttons. And they're snapshots.
"Online profiling is bigger and continuous. You look at way more people. And it's getting better at throwing up little things and new things a traditional group might not but which could make a difference. You want ways to influence an undecided voter or - and this was important for us - make sure someone who voted for the president in '08 came back for him this time."
Using this template, Team Obama built out OfA 2.0, a version that places as much weight on analysing supporters as its original objective of motivating and organising them. A recent analysis by Evidon found 87 different tracking technologies on Obama's website just before the election (Romney's had 48). So what did all this tell the campaign?
Reinventing the world's most famous man
Earlier this year, that growing databank (and some traditional research) led Obama's campaign managers to conclude that the candidate must present a different persona to secure re-election. The new-look Democratic base built around and through OfA felt he had fallen short on 'Change' and 'Hope'.
The rhetoric had to go. A more subdued, reflective and even contrite tone was required. During the campaign, the classic Barack Obama would not reappear until his victory speech.
But when the reelection persona made its national campaign debut at the first debate with Mitt Romney - disaster. 'Subdued, reflective and contrite' fell flat given the adversarial format. An energetic and combative Romney recovered a large chunk of ground he had lost over a miserable Summer.
However, while several commentators suggested that Obama's performance would lose him the election, the campaign held firm to what the data was saying. The debate was a serious mistake, but turned out to be a case of losing a battle rather than the war itself.
The base, stupid!
A new presidential persona was not itself a magic bullet for the potential voter shortfall anyway. First, the candidate. Then, the issues.
Obama won in 2008 by broadening the core Democratic vote. He attracted younger people traditionally seen as disinterested in politics. He expanded the party's appeal to women voters with progressive positions on abortion and equality in the workplace.
And he reached out to ethnic groups, particularly African-Americans (13 per cent of the US population) and Hispanics (10% and the fastest growing group in the country). Both felt Washington ignored them and historically had not voted in significant numbers.
For 2012, it was clear that trackable supporters in these blocks were wavering. They would not defect to the Republicans, but if they did not turn up at the polls at all, Obama would still lose.
Bases are important everywhere but particularly important in the US because it does not count the popular vote to elect a president but uses an electoral college allocating 538 votes proportionally across all 50 states. Each state's representatives cast the official votes.
Obama's route to a 270-or-greater majority required victories in a handful of 'competitive' states where, women aside, his core represented more of the population than the national average.
"It wasn't all of them [the 2008 voters] and it wasn't the same across every group," the Obama aide says. "But it was totally obvious that the same enthusiasm wasn't there. Our hold on them wasn't as strong."
These voters wanted a more sober president, but they also wanted their concerns to be noted. It was here that profiling-based campaigning was put into action.
Public informs private
The 2012 campaign was extremely negative. Through BPI, the Obama campaign used targeted online ads as warnings.
Romney was Wall Street red in tooth-and-claw and exported American jobs. Romney wanted to deport illegal immigrants and wouldn't implement reform. Romney's running mate Paul Ryan had authored a budget plan that attacked African-Americans. Romney had a binder of things he wouldn't do on women's rights.
As blunt as the messages from both sides were, there was some smart technology behind them.
Because BPI was integrated with OfA, feedback loops selected and monitored which campaigns worked, which didn't and where ads were best placed. The objective mixed convincing 'swing' voters (this was one of the campaigns public facets) with addressing wavering 2008 voters.
But OfA went deeper. The ads fed the broader analytical infrastructure by capturing, among other things, email addresses, Facebook 'likes' and other data. New connections were analysed, including public profiles. Reactions from existing database members were treated the same. Everything was sifted in the data bank.
The results drove a separate, private, personalised campaign strand. Here are some techniques that we understand were used.
- Detailed personal information about prospective voters was given to phone and door-to-door canvassers.
- Personal emails were sent addressing the election theme or themes in which the recipient had shown greatest interest.
- 'Active' campaign volunteers were alerted to friendships and connections they had with potential Obama voters in the same area. A 'multiplier effect' was sought: messages are better delivered by someone you know than someone you don't.
- Email, phone calls and visits were made to encourage voter registration and provide advice on where to vote.
None of this is especially new. Technology is evolving campaigning techniques. But the precision is increasing fast. A campaign manager could guess one technique might 'chime' with a certain community; today, though, they want techniques that sing an aria. To you personally.
Increased accuracy also provided a way to focus messaging that the Obama base especially required.
"Republicans are interested in a closely grouped set of issues," the Obama aide says. "Democrats are more diffuse in the themes that will get them to engage. Or possibly disengage."
Take immigration reform. Hispanics alone may have given Obama the votes that swung the final result, opting 71 per cent-27 per cent in his favour. Their naturalised community ardently wants reforms that will formalise the presence of members without papers, particularly Obama's proposed Dream Act that offers a path to citizenship for people brought to the country illegally as children.
"But the Hispanic community is predominantly Catholic and has a significant evangelical sub-group. Many trend toward Republican positions on abortion or gay marriage. Many African-Americans do too," the Obama aide says. "You want to make immigration a more important issue for them [Hispanics], when you present the president's platform.
"Then, I did mention African-Americans. Immigration reform does not play well in that community. It sees cheap, illegal labour taking away blue collar jobs from black workers because the employers can force a lower rate and don't have the same payroll obligations. For them, you need to highlight some of the Republican proposals on cuts to entitlements."
Sending the right (and equally not the wrong) message to each voter was vital to mobilising Obama's 'rainbow' coalition. Mass marketing here was tricky. Personalised marketing could get base voters to concentrate on their individual priorities.
Metric-driven politics
Election night at Mitt Romney's HQ saw widespread (but actually not universal) shock as networks called Ohio for Barack Obama and disbelief that Virginia stubbornly remained too-close-to-call only to also plump for the president. Then, a tied Florida count was stopped and stretched into a second day.
Romney campaigners thought their man had edged victory in all three states. They did not believe that the youth vote would arrive or that Hispanics (significant in Virginia as well as Florida) would turn out in volume.
Strangely, that was largely because they had come to the same conclusion that Obama's team had: these groups were no longer as enthusiastic about the president. They were right. But it wasn't so much about the president now, and they underestimated that shift as well as its effectiveness in turning out the Democratic base.
OfA had been in the game longer. It had more time to gather data and refine analysis tools and delivery mechanisms. It used a platform that had evolved rather than being bootstrapped together. Its knowledge allowed for greater innovation.
Many traditional elements of a successful IT implementation were there, through to integration with third-party suppliers.
Obama's technological advantages may not have won him a second term in their own right. Also, importantly, they augmented and informed but did not replace the campaign's very strong grass-roots organisation. But they still may well have put Obama 'over-the-top' in a very tight race that required exact regional and demographic campaigning. Every little helps.
So, the president did indeed listen and learn, in more ways than most Americans realise. Will it make him a better president? The next four years will tell.


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Ex Black Sabbaths front-man Ozzie Osborne was celebrating yesterday after a consignment of Sugar Puffs breakfast cereal arrived at his L.A mansion, thanks to an earth quake.
Ex druggie Ozzie, 59, who is currently in the US whiles his X Factor judge wife, Sharon, is helping to find Americas next big singing sensation., became upset when he discovered that his favourite cereal.
'I couldn't find the f###ing puff anyway in the, so I contacted their UK maker Hunny-monster, begging the s'ds for some.' Crunches the rocker as he eats his serial straight from the box.
'They said they ship some out within 48 hours, they arrived after 5 b***y minuets, no one can say the post office has failed. '
The earth quake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, and the biggest to hit the UK in 25 years, hit Yorkshire at 12:56 AM on the 27th of February. Caused wide spread damage to home of up to 40 Miles away.
Amazingly, apart from Sharon's dog, Mini growing 5 foot, nothing at the Osborn's $2000,0000 mansion was effective.
Ozzie has confirmed that he will be recording a song about the events to help find a cure for Mini.
'I can't have one of Sharon's f***ing dogs getting a bigger Ego then me,' he spluttered.
'Sharon, get me more puffs now……. SHARON!.'
Jaime Home, The spoof news, under a pile of cereal boxes, the Osborn mansion, L.A.


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We're Talking About: Jared Loughner, Abortion Rates, and the "Hormone of Love"
- Tuscon shooting suspect Jared Loughner appeared in court yesterday . He waived bail and was ruled "a danger." If he is convicted, he could face the death penalty. [ New York Times ]
- For Sarah Palin, the shooting marks a turning point - she'll have to choose between operating in the public or private sphere. [ Politico ]
- Neighbors of Loughner 's parents say that the pair are so devestated they have become physically ill in the wake of their son's actions. [ Politico ]
- Studies of abortion providers show that abortion rates from 2008 are up slightly from rates in 2005, which ends a steady decline since 1990. [ Associated Press ]
- In a first-grade classroom in Brooklyn, four teachers are in charge of about sixty students: It's noisy, it's hectic, it's messy ... but could it be what the kids need? [ New York Times ]
- Oxytocin has been known as the " hormone of love " for a while, but it comes with a serious side effect: It creates a kind of insular love that could be dangerous. [ New York Times ]
Photograph of Sarah Palin by Allison Shelley for Getty Images.


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Make a Pattern for In-Seam Pockets
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Step 5
Lay your hand on these lines, flat. Loosely trace in the shape of a kidney bean around your hand, being sure to start and finish at the points shown with pins in the picture. The pocket pouch part of this needs to include seam allowance, so be sure to leave some room around your hand. This will be the shape of the pocket (which will not be seen from the outside of the garment). See next step.


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|16,145 sq. ft.
|Property type
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|3 - 7 nights
The gîte of Le Mas de Maupas is the west wing of the main house. Situated in the valley between Malaucène and Suzette in 3 hectares of parkland, it is an ideal location for cycling, touring or simply enjoying the peace and beauty of the Vaucluse countryside. Wifi, bed linen, towels all included. The 3 bedrooms all have twin beds. Two of the rooms share a bathroom and have a balcony. The third bedroom has ensuite bathroom. The kitchen is well equipped and because of the old, thick walls the gîte is always cool in summer. There is a small courtyard facing south next to the old well (still operational). A west facing covered terrace outside the salon is ideal for barbecues or sitting enjoying the views. To read reviews please connect to Trip Advisor (we have 5 stars).
Jim and Annie Templeton started looking for a home in Vaucluse 7 years ago. We visited scores of properties over the next 6 years. We left the UK for good in 2010, closing our logistics business and Annie hung up her helmet and retired from motor racing. We finally found what we wanted in early 2012 when we first saw Le Mas de Maupas. Although the construction of the house was complete, the interior was a shell with no plumbing or electricity. Work started on the house in June 2012, we moved in to our accommodation in October 2012 and the gîte was completed at the beginning of August 2013. All the guests who have stayed have left good reviews (we have 5 stars on Trip Advisor) and we have very much enjoyed meeting people from all over the world. Sadly Jim died in November 2013 but he spent a wonderful year here at Le Maupas and he would be so pleased with the success it is currently enjoying.
Annie Templeton purchased this house in 2012
We chose northern Vaucluse for many reasons. We have family with a vineyard close by so we had got to know the region well. Malaucène is an historic town and even in winter is busy with cyclists and tourists. Nearby Vaison la Romaine is a great culture centre with concerts and Art exhibitions and of course Avignon is only half an hour away. We have found the local people very friendly and welcoming.
We are in a very quiet valley but it never feels remote. There are many scenic walks and villages to see. The views all round are wonderful and of course the weather isn't bad!
A beautiful, tranquil spot with 3 hectares of parkland and fruit trees. There is and abundance of wild flowers, orchids, poppies, evening primroses to name but a few.
There is a workshop/garage for cycles and any other equipment which needs to be stored under cover.
We have a large barn which can accommodate precious cars if they need to be kept under a roof (your touring convertible won't suffer from the elements here!)
The swimming pool faces Mont Ventoux and the experience of swimming is enhanced by the spectacular views all around.
From BR:We were honoured to be the first guests of the Gites..I myself, my partner and our 15 year old daughter had a really great staying near Malaucene at Annie and Jim's place! a beautiful environment and a very nice house with lots of space for everyone ;meaning inside and outside.Such a nice view..The gite is lovely :restaured rooms en new build space to let you feel comfortable in a lovely house.Annie and Jim are very nice hosts;they gave us the feeling of being welcome!Annie took the time to give us al the information we want and she knows al lot to tell about the area.Chapeau for le Mas de Maupas! We will certainly return!
From PH: The house of Annie and Jim Templeton is in a quiet valley, 2 kms from Malaucene. Malaucene is a nice village with a local market, several restaurants (menus for 13 euros) and of course is one of the ways to get on the Mont Ventoux. We greatly enjoyed our stay!
Special interest holidays:
Food in Provence is an inclusive experience of shopping, eating and cooking in Provence. The four day stay includes cooking demonstrations, buying ingredients in the local market, wine tasting and dinner in a local family run restaurant. The course is for 6 people only and is designed to be fun and instructive.
Avignon Airport: 50km (45 Minutes), Marseille Provence: 116 km (1 hr 20 minutes), Avignon TGV Rail: 45km
Nîmes & Montpellier airports are less than 2 hours drive
A car is highly recommended as the nearest town, Malaucène is 2 kilometres distance.
Malaucène: 2km, Vaison La Romaine: 8 km, Avignon: 40km, Orange: 40km
Further Details:
We are still working on the grounds and landscaping so not much planting is established yet, except for all the fruit trees which are abundant. But the because of the beautiful peaceful setting, this will not detract from your holiday!
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June 2018
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July 1st 2017 - 1st Sept 2017 letting is from Sat pm - Sat am only. Please contact us for nightly prices out of Season (not July and August)
The deposit is is non-refundable.
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4-8 Weeks 50% of the balance
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One of the natural treasures of Hawaii is the famed Black Coral, several species of which live in the euphotic ocean zone around the islands. In 1987, the coral was named the official Hawaii state gem.
There are some 230 known species of black coral, spread throughout the oceans of the world, mostly in the Indian and Pacific. Most of them live in very deep waters, at depths of between 300 and 3000 meters. However, around a dozen species make their home near land and sunlight, taking the form of large shrub-like or tree-like growths; you can see them first-hand if you take a diving trip at a Hawaii resort.
Like all other corals, black corals are colony organisms, with a large protein-based skeleton covered in a "coenosarc," a layer of tissue that connects the individual polyps to each other via a nervous and digestive system. The polyps, in turn, dot the surface of the coral with thousands of tiny mouths and tentacles turned out to catch prey and feed the colony.
Black corals are prized by jewelers because of their intense and unusual color. (Incidentally, in its natural habitat, black coral isn't black - the polyps are often brightly colored, but they're hiding a jet-black skeleton.) Unfortunately, they are extremely slow growers - the colony thickens by only between 4 and 35 micrometers per year. For this reason, many Black Coral species have become endangered, and the coral is subject to environmental protection laws that carry strict harvesting quotas.
For this reason, black coral jewelry can run you a pretty penny, depending on the species. While shallow-water Gorgonian black coral is relatively common and not terribly expensive, true deep-water Antipatharian coral, hauled from 300 feet below water and very strictly rationed, can cost hundreds of dollars for a 10-inch unprocessed branch. High-quality black coral gives an incomparable tone and luster, but is difficult to process, which drives up the price of jewelry even more.
If you can afford it, Antipatharian coral jewelry makes for a unique and precious gift for your Hawaii wedding!


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Apple has just released the first update to the OS X Yosemite Public Beta, about a month after the first beta shipped. If you skipped the first beta but would like to give this one a try, Apple's sign-up page still appears to be accepting new testers (the company said that it would close the program down after the first million sign-ups, a number that apparently hasn't been hit yet).
The build number of the new beta indicates that it's roughly the same as Yosemite Developer Beta 6, which was released earlier this week to registered iOS and OS X developers. The first public beta was more or less identical to Developer Beta 4.
In the space of those two developer betas, Apple has been working to squash out bugs and has further Yosemite-ized more traditional OS X components. The volume and brightness overlays have been changed to match the frosted translucent look used elsewhere in the OS, and Apple added a new batch of Yosemite-themed wallpapers. Additional application and System Preferences icons have also been redesigned to match Yosemite's simpler, "flatter" look.
The new beta can be downloaded via Software Update and requires a restart to install—if you've installed a standard OS X point update before, you already know the drill. We don't know how many more versions of the public beta Apple will release between now and Yosemite's official launch date in the fall, but beta users will be able to update directly to the finished "golden master" build of the OS without having to completely reinstall Yosemite. John Siracusa's full review of Yosemite will be posted once the final OS ships.