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Microsoft Office is a large, complicated set of applications, with lots of knobs and switches to configure. Fortunately, you can use Group Policy to take control of the suite's deployment and configuration. However, using Group Policy to manage Office can be challenging, especially if you're trying to deploy and manage the new Office 2007 system.
Perhaps you've never used Group Policy to deploy Office. If so, you've come to the right place. What follows is a primer for deploying the various versions of the product. As you'll see, the process has changed significantly—although not for the better—for Office 2007. Also, if you need to know how to use the Microsoft-provided Administrative Templates (.adm) files to lock down your Office deployments, this article might prove extra useful. I'll wrap things up with a look at what third-party vendors are doing to help add configuration capabilities for Office through Group Policy.
Options for Deploying Office
There are several ways you can deploy Office to your end users. For example, you might decide to "bake" Office right into your standard desktop-imaging process so that Office is automatically present when you set up a new workstation. You can also use a software-distribution package such as Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) to deploy it. Or, as you might guess, you can use the Group Policy Software Installation feature to deploy Office.
Using Group Policy to deploy Office has two advantages over the other two deployment methods. The first advantage is that Group Policy is included "in the box," so you don't necessarily need to buy and deploy a complicated software-distribution product if your needs are basic. Another advantage is that deploying applications via Group Policy Software Installation lets you manage the application's full life cycle—from initial deployment to updating to removal. That's something you don't get by baking Office into an image. So, what does it take to deploy Office via Group Policy?
Using Group Policy to Deploy office
The following deployment method for using Group Policy Software Installation for Office deployment applies to Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000. As we go through this process, keep in mind that Microsoft has made some significant—and not necessarily positive—changes to this process in Office 2007. I'll discuss those changes shortly. But first, I'll walk you through the prototypical Office 2003 Professional deployment.
1. The first thing you need to do is place the Office installation files on a server share where your clients can find them. Doing so isn't just a matter of copying the CD-ROM files to a server share. To perform a proper deployment, you need to run an administrative installation of Office. Open a command prompt, and change to the Office installation CD-ROM folder in which setup.exe resides. From the command prompt, type
setup /a
to begin an administrative installation.
2. In the Install Location box, enter a server share and folder where you want the Office installation files to reside. You'll also need to enter the product key here. I recommend that you use a DFS share to host your application packages. A DFS share lets you move the underlying package around between servers without having to change the path in the Group Policy Object (GPO) where the package is deployed. This functionality is important because the path is hard-coded on each client that installs an application through Group Policy Software Installation, and a change in the package path triggers a reinstallation of the deployed application.
3. After Office is deployed on the server, you need to ensure that both the share and NTFS permissions on the installation folder allow all the target computers or users to read the application setup files. To do so, grant the built-in Authenticated Users group the Read permission on the share and folders.
4. Now, you need to deploy the package in a GPO. First, decide whether you want to deploy the package per computer or per user. If you choose a per-user deployment, you'll need to determine whether you want to publish it or assign it. The differences between publishing and assigning are simple. By assigning an application, you're telling Group Policy to install the application at user-logon time. By publishing it, you're essentially saying that installation is up to the user, who must start the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs applet and explicitly choose to install Office. For most scenarios, assignment is preferable to publishing.
For the sake of this article, we'll perform a per-computer assignment of Office; the software will be installed during the next computer reboot and will be available to all users on a given computer. Open Group Policy Editor (GPE) on a GPO linked to the computer objects in Active Directory (AD) where we want to install Office and drill into the Computer Configuration\Software Settings\Software Installation node. Right-click the node, and choose New, Package. Next, enter the path to the Windows Installer setup file for Office 2003—in my example, it's the file called pro11n.msi.
Note that when you enter the path, you need to type the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path for the .msi file, as Figure 1 shows, rather than navigating to the file directly in the file system. This requirement is necessary because the path is stored in the GPO for the package and is referenced by all clients that process the package. Therefore, the path needs to point to a relative location—in this case, the DFS share in which my packages are stored—rather than an absolute path such as D:\packages\ Office2K3\pro11n.msi.
5. After you choose the path to the package, a dialog box prompts you to decide whether you want to assign the package or select the Advanced options to set more properties on the deployment.
This is a key decision point. Choosing Advanced options in Office 2003 and earlier lets you use transforms to customize your Office deployments. A transform is a special version of an .msi file—an .mst file—that modifies the setup instructions of the original install package as it's installed and is applied when you deploy a package using Group Policy Software Installation. After the package is deployed, you can't go back and add the transform, so you must add it at initial deployment.
You create transforms for Office 2003 by using the Custom Installation Wizard in the Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit. You can create a transform that controls which Office applications and options are installed, which folder Office is installed in, which default options are set within each Office application, and so on. You create a transform outside of GPE—using the Custom Installation Wizard—so you should create the transform ahead of time, before you're ready to deploy your Office package. After creating a transform file, you copy it to the folder in which your Office setup files reside.
At this point in the package deployment, if you decide to use a transform, you must choose the Advanced option instead of Assign to add the transform to the deployment package. After choosing Advanced, make sure that the package is shown as Assigned on the Deployment tab (it should be the only option for a per-computer deployment), then select the Modifications tab, which Figure 2 shows, to add the transform file to the package. Click OK to complete the package deployment.
That's all there is to performing a per-computer deployment of Office 2003. After the computer reboots, the Office 2003 installation will commence and Office will be installed when the user goes to log on to the computer. Now, let's look at how Office 2007 changes this process.
Office 2007 Changes
In Office 2007, Microsoft has changed the deployment methods, especially with respect to deployment via Group Policy Software Installation. Not all of these changes are for the better, and I would say that if you're thinking about deploying Office 2007 via Group Policy Software Installation, you should consider alternative deployment options such as SMS. Here's what has changed:
- You no longer run an administrative setup to get the Office 2007 files to your deployment server share; instead, you simply copy the contents of the Office CD-ROM directly to the server share.
- Office 2007 no longer supports per-user deployments via Group Policy Software Installation—only per-computer deployments.
- Office 2007 no longer supports transforms for customizing Office deployments. A file called config. xml, which ships with the Office installation files, supports a few customizations for use with Group Policy Software Installation—but not nearly as many as you could perform with the Custom Installation Wizard in the earlier versions of Office. Office 2007 does provide such granular capability with the use of .msp files and the Office Customization Tool, but these customizations aren't available during Group Policy Software Installation deployment of Office 2007. With the config.xml file, however, you can customize such things as the product key, the deployment location of Office on the target computers, and the selection of Office applications or features that get installed. I give an example of what one such config.xml file looks like in my blog post at http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/gpoguy/archive/2007/01/29/ what-were-they-thinking-the-office-product-team-strikes-again.aspx. This config. xml file should be customized prior to deploying Office via Group Policy Software Installation, and you'll need to create a different Office installation share for each config.xml file you wish to deploy.
- An Office 2007 installation using Group Policy Software Installation isn't entirely unattended. After the initial installation of Office, users logging on to their system for the first time could be confronted with an Office configuration utility, which performs a set of post-deployment configurations and then logs the user off to complete the tasks.
The bottom line with respect to Office 2007 deployments via Group Policy Software Installation is that the features and capabilities available with Office 2003 and earlier are no longer supported. However, you might still find Group Policy useful in customizing office 2007.
Using Group Policy to Customize Office
Following an Office installation, the next step is to control its configuration on your users' desktops. Group Policy can also help you in that effort. Like many other Microsoft applications and system components, all recent versions of Office come with Administrative Templates that can be imported into GPOs to customize Office configurations. The Office Administrative Templates ship for each new version of Office. You can obtain them from the Microsoft download site (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads). These .adm files ship with both per-computer and per-user settings. However, it's important to note that these settings are preferences, not policies; they will tattoo the target computer's registry until you explicitly remove them. To add the Office 2007 .adm files to a GPO, follow these simple steps:
- Open GPE and navigate to the GPO on which you want to set an Office Administrative Template policy. Right-click the Administrative Templates node under either Computer Configuration or User Configuration (it doesn't matter which) and choose Add/Remove Templates.
- Navigate to the folder in which you've saved your Office 2007 .adm files and select all the files in that folder. After they appear in the Add/Remove Templates dialog box, as Figure 3 shows, select Close to load them into the GPO.
- The Administrative Templates will now appear in the Administrative Template nodes in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration. If a setting appears as both per-computer and per-user, the per-computer setting typically takes precedence, unless otherwise stated in the Explain text for the policy setting. If you're using Windows Vista to manage Group Policy, the new Office templates will appear under the Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) node rather than in the main tree. To view the preferences, you need to tell the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that you want to make them visible. To do so, choose View, Filtering and clear the Only show policy settings that can be fully managed check box. The Office templates will be visible and ready to be set.
Note that some aspects of the Office template settings will differ from Administrative Template settings. With many Administrative Template settings that Microsoft provides, when you enable a policy for a particular application (e.g., Windows Explorer), the setting that's controlled by that policy becomes grayed-out in the UI. The end user can't even access the option to change the policy setting. However, when you set an Office template (e.g., the default file save location for Microsoft Excel), it appears that the end user can go in and modify that option in Excel. But, the change made by the end user doesn't "stick," and the option reverts back to the one that you delivered in your GPO. This is just a subtle but important usability difference that you'll find in the Office templates.
Some Configurations Require Third Parties
The Office Administrative Templates let you exert much control over your Office deployments. However, not all configuration capabilities are supported. For example, the most common configuration request is to have the ability to pre-create Microsoft Outlook profiles with the email server options that you want your users to have the first time they launch Outlook. Unfortunately, this basic setup isn't supported in any versions of the Office Administrative Templates. For that reason, you have to rely on third-party vendors for help. Several vendors provide products that extend Group Policy's native capabilities to add advanced Office configuration support, including DesktopStandard's PolicyMaker Standard Edition (now part of Microsoft), Quest Software's Group Policy Extensions for Desktops, and ScriptLogic's Desktop Authority. ScriptLogic's product lets you control Outlook profiles outside of Group Policy. Both DesktopStandard's product and Quest's product are implemented as extensions to Group Policy, letting you use your existing Group Policy infrastructure to deploy the Outlook configuration I mentioned earlier as well as other configuration scenarios not supported by the Office Administrative Templates.
With Group Policy Software Installation for Office deployment and Office Administrative Templates to lock down the behavior of various Office applications for your users, you can ease the burden of managing what has historically been a large and complicated software suite. And, if you throw third-party products into the mix, there's almost nothing you can't do to manage your Office users.


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Katie Holmes Spotted At CBS Studios -- Literally!
Katie Holmes wears an interesting white Juicy Couture dress with black spots on it as she arrives at CBS studios in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon (June 14).
What does the 30-year-old mom have up her sleeve?! Last weekend, Katie met with FOX producer, Nigel Lythgoe, who judges the reality TV competition So You Think You Can Dance. Katie is rumored to be making a special performance on the show and now she's meeting with CBS!
Whatever Katie's up to, it looks like she'll be making her way back to the small screen!

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HTC One M8 在推出 Harman Kardon 限定版後,這次又與新加坡知名工作室 Phunk Studios 跨界合作推出了 64 台 HTC One M8 限量版,共有金色跟銀色兩款,不過目前的消息指出僅在澳洲藝術展現場作展示性質,還沒有公布相關銷售計劃。
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First partnership in HTC's 2014 design collaboration programme 'Here's to Creativity'
LONDON, Aug. 14, 2014 – HTC, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, has teamed up with design power house PHUNK, the internationally acclaimed, Singapore-based contemporary art and design collective, to create a limited edition version of the award-winning HTC One (M8) handset. The campaign, which launches on Aug. 14, 2014, will see 64 bespoke handsets specially created to provide a sneak preview of the collective's upcoming exhibition, which will take place throughout Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2014.
Renowned for its commitment to outstanding design, HTC's collaboration with PHUNK champions the world's best design and creative talent. To deliver the bespoke creations, PHUNK and the design team at HTC worked together to explore the ideas of Wonderment, taking inspiration from surroundings, culture and the society in which we live - all of which complement HTC's focus on creating original, spirited and intuitive design.
Jonah Becker, Head of HTC Design said: "At HTC we are always looking for inspiration from designers and artists across all cultures and media. PHUNK is a hugely talented collective of designers and artists whose global perspective and attention to craft mirrors our values on the HTC design team. Their work responds to the world around them in the same way we design for the attitudes and behaviors we see in people during our creative process. We worked closely with PHUNK to integrate their interpretation of the 'Wonderment' theme into the metal unibody of the HTC One (M8), culminating in an exceptional piece of art that is an inspiration to our team and those who will be lucky enough to own one."
Jackson Tan, Co-Founder of PHUNK said: "We're celebrating our 20th year in the industry so we were really excited to be involved in something that allows us to further spread our creativity in areas we haven't yet explored, when it comes to innovation in technology. The design created for the HTC One (M8) gives a snapshot of our forthcoming exhibition, which is inspired by, and is an interpretation of, the world around us. It's the first time anyone has been able to cast their eyes on what's to come from our art and design collective, and we are excited to share our passion for cultural spirit, love, joy and magic."
The limited edition PHUNK design is featured exclusively on the HTC One (M8) - the ultimate in advanced, premium mobile design. The handset sports a high-resolution, 5" screen, wrapped in a sophisticated metal unibody. The intelligent HTC Sense® 6 software experience brings the beautiful exterior design of the HTC One (M8) to the inside, and HTC BlinkFeed™ collates bite-size news updates on to the users' home screen. As well as this, stunning images are just a snap away, thanks to the new Duo Camera and the HTC UltraPixel™ sensor which allows stunning images to be captured in any light. The partnership with PHUNK follows on from the success of HTC's previous limited edition handsets including British fashion designer David Koma.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — It's been three years since Leigh Steinberg had his last drink of vodka, the personal demon that sent his personal and professional lives crashing out of control.
It was on March 20, 2010, when Steinberg was standing in the doorway of a treatment center for indigent alcoholics, the last place anyone would expect to find the super agent who was the inspiration for Tom Cruise's character in "Jerry Maguire." There wasn't a bed available, so his brother drove him to a residential rehab center where he spent the next 10 months.
Thursday is his third sober birthday. It's a big milestone for Steinberg, who plans to relaunch his sports and entertainment agency this year as well as work on numerous other projects, including an autobiography and his continuing crusade to raise awareness of the damaging effects of concussions.
"I wanted to focus on sobriety first so I absolutely could make sure I had an intelligent plan to deal with it," Steinberg said in a phone interview from his office in Newport Beach.
"I continue to be a work in progress. You don't get cured from alcoholism. It's a lifelong condition, but with diligence, you can stop from drinking. Once it's in your brain, it's not like, 'OK, I've been sober for three years, I can start drinking again.' "
On Saturday, friend and business partner Richard Gillam will throw a party to celebrate Steinberg's three years of sobriety and his real birthday, which is next Wednesday.
"I get to repeat the Beatles lyrics, "Will you still need me ... ," Steinberg said, quoting from "When I'm Sixty-Four."
Digging out from the wreckage caused by the fog of alcoholism has included settling a personal bankruptcy case and repaying a loan to former NFL player Chad Morton in a tangled case that badly damaged Steinberg's career.
He's working to put together the financing to relaunch his sports agency. Later this year he'll take the test required to regain his certification from the NFL Players Association, which he let lapse during his battle with booze.
"I will prepare thoroughly," said Steinberg, who then will begin recruiting clients. Within a year, he hopes to be certified in all major sports.
His only current client is SMU coach June Jones, who's been with Steinberg since his NFL days.
Steinberg, who always had a squeaky clean image, envisions a company that would assemble superstar talent in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, boxing, MMA, action sports, golf and tennis.
Earlier this week, he took to Twitter to solicit suggestions for the title of his autobiography, will be published sometime between the end of the year and the Super Bowl, appropriate timing considering the number of title-winning quarterbacks and Hall of Famers he used to represent.
He said there's interest in a movie based on the book. And no, Cruise won't star in it.
Steinberg said he's been asked why he doesn't just retire from being a sports agent. He said he can make enough money from speaking engagements, his book, writing for Forbes.com and other outlets, and teaching sports and entertainment law classes at local colleges.
It turns out he's still idealistic.
"I still get fulfillment and gratitude in helping young men realize their dreams," said Steinberg, who represented players such as Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Warren Moon, Bruce Smith, Howie Long, Derrick Thomas and Ben Roethlisberger. "I think the concept of role-modeling and a focus on second careers never goes out of style. And I haven't noticed the field of representation is greatly improved."
Steinberg said he remains "hard-wired to be of service." Over the decades, he said, his many clients have raised an estimated $760 million in various charitable endeavors. His late father, who was a high school principal in Los Angeles, admonished him to treasure relationships, especially with family, to make a difference and help people who can't help themselves.
"Look, the way I've made it through all of this is by perspective," he said. "I'm not a starving peasant in Darfur. I don't have the name Steinberg in Nazi Germany. I don't have cancer. I don't live in a repressive country. I was born an American in the most democratic and economically rich country in the world and I didn't fight in a war to preserve that. The least I can do is try to extend that to people and try to make a difference."
Steinberg has blamed only himself for his debts and drinking, which he said stemmed from a series of personal and business setbacks over several years.
"No question he has done a 180-degree turnaround," Gillam said. "It's one thing to get to a year. Three full years, I think this is something we can comfortably say is his new state. He is clean and sober. I think what anybody can say about Leigh, even people who have found themselves on the opposite side of the fence, is he's a man we need back in the game."
Steinberg is on the board of directors and a shareholder in Gillam's company, DeskSite, which has developed an app that allows fans to download customized, HD video of their favorite NFL teams to computers, rather than smart phones, with advertising targeted to the age and gender of the user.
"He's turning 64 but it seems more like he's 44. There's a gleam in his eye. ... I think this is going to be the year of Leigh Steinberg," Gillam said.
Hall of Famers Moon and Smith — two examples of former Steinberg clients with successful second careers — are pulling for their former agent in his comeback.
"I think being sober for three years is something he's proud of and I'm definitely proud of him for," said Moon, who lives in Seattle and runs a sports and entertainment marketing company in Irvine. "It took him a long time to get over that. He battled for a while. He tried everything over and over to make that happen and he finally got to the point where he conquered it."
Smith is now a real estate developer in Virginia.
"Leigh was once a brilliant sports agent and it would be nice to see him return back to the prominence that he once had," Smith said.
While he has interest in new technologies and environmental causes, Steinberg is most fervent about crusading for raising awareness of concussions and advocating safety changes. He's been concerned since the early 1990s because whenever his clients — particularly quarterbacks — sustained a concussion, doctors couldn't answer basic questions such as how many were too many and what were the long-term effects.
"It got to the point where I can no longer represent players and claim to be looking out for their best interests if I don't spend time trying to raise awareness in suggesting changes to make the game safer," said Steinberg, who hosted concussion seminars and issued white papers. "I felt like an enabler where I was facilitating athletes to do an act that was hazardous to their health. At least they needed to be aware."
Steinberg said he's concerned because players are bigger, stronger and faster, and they absorb thousands of sub-concussive hits during their careers.
"We've long known that because of damages to the body that occur in football that a 40-year-old player might have pain leaning over to pick up his child. It's another thing not to be able to recognize the child," Steinberg said.
"That's why I call it a ticking time bomb and undiagnosed health epidemic. There will be massive amounts of damage in years to come that we haven't even experienced before."
While Steinberg credits NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for doing more than all of his predecessors combined on concussions, the agent fears football could suffer in the future due to insurance liability and parents not letting their kids play.
Among his many pursuits, Steinberg said he's working with a physician to produce a sports drink that includes an antioxidant, nutraceutical compound geared to roll back the chemical reaction in cells that occurs in a concussion
Once he relaunches his agency, Steinberg said it's not necessarily important to return to the top of the business.
"No, what's important is to represent impactful athletes who make a difference," said Steinberg, who plans to mentor young agents. "But that was always my approach. That's why I was so quarterback-heavy. They're the central players. I can't replicate the statistical success of the past. I don't think anybody ever will. I mean, God bless them if they do."
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Jakarta Culinary Festival 2012: showcasing international and Indonesian celebrated chefs
By admin • Sep 28th, 2012• Category: Budget Travel Package & Interesting Places
This October, Indonesia's metropolitan capital Jakarta is defining the true meaning of "Taste" with the month long bi-annual world-class gastronomic festival: the Jakarta Culinary Festival 2012 which will be held at the Grand Indonesia Shopping Town, from 4 to 31 October 2012.
Inspired by the excitement & glitz of the modern culinary industry, Jakarta Culinary Festival showcases the intricate craftsmanship of prestigious International chefs, vintners, local culinary stars, and many more. Among some of the international culinary stars participating are: Andre Chiang, Bliss sisters, Caryn& Karen, Diego Munoz & Emilio Macias, Edward Kwon, George Calombaris, Ken Arnone, Marcel Vigneron, Mario Batali, Nooror Somany Steppe, and Ryan Clift.
From Indonesia culinary scene the event will feature some of the country's celebrated chefs including: Aldo Volpi, Arnold Purnomo, Chris Salans, Farah Quinn, Henry Alexi Bloem, James Ephram, Marinka, Michael Gibbons, Sisca Suwitomo, Vindex Tengker, William Wongso, and many more.
The event will kick off with a 4-day long Grand Opening Weekend Expo which lasts from 4 to 7 October 2012. The Grand Opening Weekend Expo features a perfect combination of consumers & trade events, cooking demo stages, various F&B areas, and daily schedule filled with culinary programs & performances.
Following the grand opening, the whole month of the festival will feature all sorts of culinary festivities including Masterchef's Dinner Sessions, Cooking Demos, and other exciting programs in various partner establishments around the city. Visitors will be indulged with a fun filled month of various events and venues to choose from all under the love of delicious food, drinks and entertainment.
The Jakarta Culinary Festival is considered as the first ever true culinary festival in Indonesia and is widely acknowledged by the media, hospitality industry, and customers as a breakthrough that also shaped the rapid development of Indonesia's culinary industries.
In 2009, the festival successfully featured participation of 4 international guest chefs, 19 leading suppliers/producers, 30 culinary-themed events in 7 establishments for approximately 4000 customers and guests–including one massive Grand Opening. The one-day Grand Opening alone, which was themed 'Fine Food & Fine Art', attracted over 1500 people in a period of only 5 hours at City Plaza (Wisma Mulia).
The following year, Jakarta Culinary Festival 2010 successfully multiplied the event's scale, media exposure, number of featured chefs and also exhibitors by at least three. But the truly astonishing fact is the number of visitors actually multiplied by ten, as JCF 2010 fascinatingly attracted almost 40,000 visitors during the one month of the event. This year, Jakarta Culinary Festival is obviously back with a bigger bang and more than ready to indulge each and every food enthusiast.
More Information is available at the event's official website: http://www.jakartaculinaryfestival.com/
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A product development firm with locations in Massachusetts, the United Kingdom and Singapore hopes to incorporate its patented short-range, 3D radar technology into tractors to prevent collisions in agricultural fields.
Cambridge Consultants has entered into discussions with major tractor manufacturers and intends to publicly unveil its technology during a demonstration at the Agritechnica International Exhibition from Nov. 12-15 in Hanover, Germany.
The company's project lead, Gary Kemp, believes statistics from the National Agricultural Tractor Safety Initiative, showing tractor accidents are the leading cause of death and serious injury on U.S. farms, demonstrate the need for new tractor safety innovations. He believes the radar system can prevent accident rates from rising as farm machines become increasingly automated.
"While the farmer in the cab is responsible for making sure the tractor does its job, he's assisted by lots of technology. He's also very busy in the cab," Kemp said. "What we wanted to do is give assistance to make sure while tractors are becoming more automated, they remain safe."
He knows of no other companies researching radar use for tractor safety. Cambridge Consultants hopes to have the technology in commercial tractors within three years.
"We're told we're doing something new," Kemp said.
Kemp explained conventional radar covers a narrow range, rotating the signal to provide a more complete picture.
"The approach we took is to have a very wide, instantaneous field of view and monitor all of that space all of the time," Kemp said.
The company first used its radar in the optical health industry to measure thickness in the human eye. The radar was later used by ExxonMobile in oil exploration. Cambridge Consultants has investigated using the system to measure the trajectory of projectiles on firing ranges. The company is also looking to use the radar technology in the automotive industry to avert collisions, and to help air traffic controllers navigate around wind farms, which interfere with conventional signals.
In tractors, the system would have sensors facing forward, toward the rear and on boom arms to monitor turning. The sensors would send warnings of possible collisions to the driver's display.
"What we think would be really effective that we're also demonstrating now would be to incorporate a video feed with each of the sensors so the cab display would also show a video image around the sensor giving a warning," Kemp said.
He said Cambridge Consultants may also talk with tractor manufacturers to determine if there's interest in using the sensors to trigger a tractor's breaks. He said the system should be affordable to manufacturer and envisions each sensor could produced at a price comparable to a high-end cellular telephone.


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Teller Sentenced For Stealing $95K
HASTINGS (AP) — A woman has been sentenced for stealing $95,000 from a Lakeville bank where she worked as a teller.
Thirty-two-year-old Leah Marie Bremner of Inver Grove Heights was sentenced in Dakota County Tuesday to a month in jail and three months of electronic home monitoring.
Bremner also was ordered to pay restitution and will be on probation for up to 20 years. She pleaded guilty in July to one count of theft by swindle, a felony.
Prosecutors say the thefts happened between May and October of 2010. At the time of the thefts, Bremner worked at the bank as a senior teller.


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WHILE MUCH of the national attention is focused on the presidential vote count in Florida, officials in Washington are quietly going about the business of keeping the federal government operating.
One item of business that hasn't attracted much attention is the drafting of new regulations to implement the emergency assistance program in the Fiscal Year 2001 agricultural appropriations bill.
The legislation written by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., says farmers could receive assistance in these areas - losses of quantity, quality and a new category, "severe economic loss." As with most federal programs, much will depend on how USDA implements the law.
Department officials have not said much publicly, but some clues have emerged in meetings with farm groups such as the National Cotton Council and Texas' Plains Cotton Growers Inc.
On the quantity provisions, NCC and Plains Cotton officials expect USDA to establish an eligibility threshold of 65 percent; i.e., farmers made less than 65 percent of their crop insurance Actual Production History yield or county average yield.
The payment rate would be 65 percent of the crop insurance price of 59 cents per pound, or 38 cents. If USDA follows previous years' rules, farmers who had zero production in 2000 would calculate their disaster benefits and reduce them by a factor of 18 percent.
Growers could have their choice of two options on the quality loss provisions. The legislation says producers whose average quality on a farm is 20 percent below the assigned average quality for their county would be eligible for a quality adjustment.
Under the first option, if the 20 percent quality loss threshold is exceeded, the payment rate could be the difference between the actual quality and the county average quality multiplied by 65 percent. That amount would be paid on the actual production from 65 percent of the harvested acres.
Option two would offer quality assistance as a component of yield and would supplement quantity benefits as under the 1999 disaster assistance program.
It's possible the severe economic loss component could apply to farmers who harvested a reduced crop in 2000 but do not qualify for assistance under the quantity or quality loss provisions of the ag appropriations bill.
NCC staff members and representatives of other commodity organizations have floated several ideas for delivery of assistance under this section, but USDA has not provided a clear message indicating if a program will, in fact, be offered or at what level it would be available.
Exactly when the regulations will be issued is a matter of serious conjecture for farm organizations and Farm Service Agency county directors who are receiving questions from growers daily.
Congressional leaders had hoped the rules would be available before the end of the year and in time for growers to take the numbers to their lenders. But, that is becoming less likely as we approach the Christmas holidays.
But they will come. In only a few countries would the government continue to write regulations when so much uncertainty surrounds the national leadership. Thank goodness the United States of America is one of them.


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DENVER (AP) — Using marijuana for recreational use is now effectively legal in Colorado.
Gov. John Hickenlooper declared a voter-approved marijuana legalization amendment as part of the state constitution on Monday. It was the last procedural step needed for the amendment to take effect.
The drug became legal in Washington state last week.
Hickenlooper, a Democrat, opposed the measure but had no veto power over the voter-approved amendment to the state constitution.
"Voters were loud and clear on Election Day," Hickenlooper in a statement.
Adults over 21 in Colorado may now possess up to an ounce of marijuana, or six plants. Commercial sale of the drug remains illegal until Colorado lawmakers set up a system of regulation and taxation next year. Public use of marijuana use is not allowed.
Colorado and Washington officials both have asked the U.S. Department of Justice for guidance on the laws that conflict with federal drug law. So far the federal government has offered little guidance beyond stating that marijuana remains illegal and that the controlled Substances Act will be enforced.
Hickenlooper announced a state task force Monday to help craft marijuana regulations. Task force members include law enforcement, agriculture officials and marijuana advocates.
Colorado and Washington officials both have asked the U.S. Department of Justice for guidance on the laws that conflict with federal drug law. Neither state will allow commercial sales for a year or more.
Colorado's marijuana measure, Amendment 64, was approved with 55 percent of the vote last month.
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2010 census reveals jump in local housing units
Close to 11,000 housing units in American Samoa were recorded during the 2010 Census count, compared to just over 10,000 housing units for the 2000 census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, who released last week more data from the 2010 census for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Census Bureau describes a housing unit as a house, an apartment, a mobile home or trailer, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied, or, if vacant, is intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
For the 2010 census, total housing units for American Samoa numbered 10,963, with the highest number of housing units in the Western District at 6,090; followed by Eastern District at 4,490; Manu'a District with 376; and Swains Island with seven, according to Census data.
In comparison, Census data for 2000 shows total housing units for the territory at 10,052, with Western District at 5,610; Eastern District 4,111; Manu'a District 323; and Swains with 8.
Tualauta County, the most populated county in the territory, had the highest number of housing units in 2010 with 4080; followed by 1,999 for Maoputasi; Lealataua at 1,038; and Ituau at 936 while Swains had the smallest number of housing units at 7.
Looking at data 10 years ago from the 2000 census, Tualauta had 3,875; Maoputasi with 2,031; Lealataua with 972; Ituau with 740 while Swains with 8 had the smallest number of housing units.
For the 2010 census — based on village count, Tafuna has the highest number of housing units — far ahead — with 1,616; followed way behind by Nu'uuli with 775; Pago Pago at 691; Ili'ili at 642 while Maloata has the smallest number of housing units with only two — compared to Swains with 7.
During the census count a decade ago, Tafuna also had the highest number of housing units at 1,488; followed way behind with Pago Pago at 742; and Leone 600, with Pagai village the lowest number of housing units at only four, according to Census Bureau data.
To be released later this year by the federal agency is the breakdown on housing units that are occupied and vacant as well as the number of housing units that are rented.
Meanwhile, the Census Bureau says demographic profiles for the Island Areas are planned for release in the summer, with other data in the fall.
(Just for the sake of playing with numbers: Samoa News notes that in 2000 the population count was 57,236 with a housing count of just over 10,000. If given they were all occupied (which they were not), it averaged out to around 6 persons per housing unit. For the 2010 population count, given the same assumption, it averages out at 5 people per housing unit, which denotes the drop in population, even though there was an increase in housing units on island.)


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Adam Carolla, friend of Deadspin, co-creator of The Man Show, co-host of Loveline, and the host of The Adam Carolla Show podcast, has written his life story. To quote the book jacket, "Not Taco Bell Material is a tale of depressed parents, public nudity, fecal matter, fist fights, Tijuana road trips, stripper girlfriends, magic mushrooms, flatulence, vandalism, perverted landlords, obnoxious celebrities, ass geysers, and complaining—lots of complaining." So, it's super boring.
The esteemed author took some time away from podcasting to answer a few probing questions:
Q: If you could choose a celebrity to be your roommate in an uninsulated garage, who would it be and why?
Adam Carolla: Katharine Hepburn. She doesn't take up a lot of room, and I could play my music as loud as I wanted.
Q: How did you choose your touchdown dance (in which you mimic crapping out the football) when there are so many options?
Adam Carolla: It came to me in a dream when I fell asleep on the shitter.
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These are discussed in the context of my current "reference" system installed in my basement's dedicated audio room. The basics of that system are:
- Sources: Day-Sequerra M4.2R HD tuner, Logitech Squeezebox Touch with Enhanced Digital Output software, Electronic Visionary Systems (EVS) modified Oppo BDP-105 (which also acts as a switching preamp/volume control for disc and other source playback)
- Equalizer: Audient ASP-231
- Electronic Crossover: Gradient HE Crossover at 200 Hz
- Amps: Four Sanders Magtech Monoblocs
- Speakers: Gradient Revolution Actives, augmented by Gradient SW-T woofer towers which add six additional 12" dipoles woofers per side, for a total of eight 12" woofers per side
- Wires: DNM balanced interconnects and speaker wires, with DNM HFTN high frequency termination networks at each end of every wire; Absolute Power Cords; Wireworld Platinum Starlight 7 USB for connection of Squeezebox Touch to Oppo; XLR-to-coax digital cable for connection of Day-Sequerra tuner to Oppo.
- Room Treatment: Lots of four-inch-thick classic Sonex
- Equipment Racks: Arcici Suspense for front end components; Minus K platform for amps.
For the player mods see: http://www.tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/Oppo_105_Mods.html (the all-out mod)
For the Ground Enhancers, see: http://www.tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/EVS_...Enhancers.html (used on all electronic components)
For the Black Discus, see: http://www.madscientist-audio.com/fr...e-blackdiscus/
For the mounting tweaks, see: http://www.goldensound.com/productlist/dh-cones (the Jumbo model, which is the next to largest one); https://walkeraudio.com/?product=val...ce-control-kit (three Walker 1-inch-thick resonance control discs); http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/prod...ber=18X15X4-CL (Mapleshade Audio 4"-thick, solid maple platform 18" x 15"); http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/products.asp?dept=1 (set of four Mapleshade Audio Isoblock 1 rubber supports)
The player mods are done by Ric Schultz at his Electronic Visionary Systems facility. The Black Discus is something that Ric recommends that users of his modified player add. The user just lays the Black Discus atop a few capacitors near the DAC which feeds the two-channel analog outputs. The Black Discus is positioned rough side up, approximately centered over the DAC chip, parallel to the circuit board and about a half inch above the DAC chip. It can be held in place by a bit of Blu-Tac if you like; I do.
The mounting system I'm now using for the disc player came about when, being so impressed with the sound of my system with his player mods and Ground Enhancers, I asked Ric Schultz how he mounted his player in his reference system. Player mounting has always been sonically important, in my experience, from my first Sony 701ES decades ago right down to the present. Ric says he's been using this same method for over six years now and has not changed it "because it just works." He mounts his disc player on the floor--he mounts all his equipment on the floor. I used to do that, too, but it was too inconvenient, even for me, so I've been using an equipment rack for several years now. Other than that, I'm now following Ric's advice as closely as I can while still incorporating my convenient equipment rack. From the floor up, I have, in this order:
- Air suspension. Ric uses an air bladder on the floor; I use the top shelf of my Arcici Suspense Rack whose top metal/acrylic shelf is directly supported by three 8" air bladders which sit in a wooden tray just under the rack's top metal/acrylic shelf.
- A Bright Star Little Rock is centered atop the acrylic sheet of the top shelf. This Little Rock is small enough not to touch the following items in the stack.
- Three Mapleshade Audio Isoblock 1 rubber feet, arranged radially (long axis of the rectangular supports pointed toward the center of the platform) near the two back bottom corners and front center of the . . .
- Solid Maple platform. I'm using a 4"-thick Mapleshade Audio maple platform with a clear lacquer finish.
- Three Walker Audio 1"-thick resonance control disks sitting atop the maple platform, arranged so that . . .
- Three Golden Sound DH Cones, the Jumbo size, which is the second largest version of the DH cones, used points down, contact the resin of the Walker disks, with the cones arranged at the back two corners of the player and at the front center of the player. The thin felt pads which come attached to the flat sides of the DH cones should be left in place so that the felt contacts the bottom metal side of the player. The player's four stock feet--which are located at the four corners--are all removed. The mounting of the foot in the center front is in the valley in the bottom silvery metal piece about an inch back from the front. The footer fits snugly in that valley and this spot is at least as good sonically as any other spot for the front footer.
- The player with the cover removed.
The presence of any cover on the player alters the presentation considerably. After using the player with the stock cover, without any cover, and with two different models of Bright Star Little Rock atop it to form a modified cover, I have concluded that coverless is the best sounding arrangement once I arranged the bass equalization of my Audient ASP231 balanced analog 1/3-octave graphic equalizer (used only in the signal path with the woofers, that is, only below 200 Hz) and the Gradient HE crossover volume control to my satisfaction (that is, a fairly rich warm bass).
Sonic Bottom Line: The improvement in CD/HDCD/SACD,HRx, FM, and Internet streaming playback wrought by the combination of the EVS modifications to the Oppo BDP-105 player (new player and all-out mods cost about $3,000 total), the EVS Ground Enhancers (about $150 worth of those), the free sample Black Discus, about $600 worth of new mounting tweaks for the player, and the extra diddling with low frequency electronic equalization makes a considerable improvement in my listening satisfaction over a very broad range of commercial recordings and program sources.
Getting the low frequency EQ right makes for improvements in low frequency weight and warmth while not giving up an iota of the bass definition I had before. The rest of the improvements described below were there before I got the bass EQ to its now seemingly just-right state, so I will assume they are the product of the EVS modifications to the Oppo, the EVS Ground Enhancers, the Black Discus, and the mounting tweaks (collectively referred to as the "EVS stuff" below).
The EVS stuff, changes the fundamental listening experience through a combination of improvements that adds so much to listening involvement that most program material is an entirely new and more realistically involving experience. Things that were wrong with my best playback before are just gone or so reduced as to easily allow suspension of disbelief. Stuff that was right is enhanced. So complete is the transformation in system sound that I could just say that the sound is considerably (not just significantly ) better in every way.
That would be basically correct. But here's a more specific account, as best as I can express it. This may be inexact and ambiguous verbalization, but I think that the shared experience of those who have played with tuning audio systems will allow most here to get a decent grasp of what I'm hearing.
I'm in the recorded space and the band is playing RIGHT THERE in front of me in a drastically increased and defined space, with envelopment galore, and enhanced dynamic contrasts at both the soft and loud end. Before, I thought the Gradients had considerable inherent limitations on their ability to play at high levels without dynamic restraint and increased distortion. Not anymore. There is now clean wallop in abundance on tap now at average levels high enough to totally satisfy me on all material.
All sorts of high frequency nasties are just gone--vanished into thin air. Many recordings that before had such nasties--grit, grain, grunge, edge, excess sibilance, etc.--are now clean as a whistle. The highs are not rolled off. They are there, but smoothed and pristine, with a degree of differentiation and filigreed quality (especially noticeable in cymbal sounds) which was previously absent. Remarkable, sometimes astonishing. The only time I've experienced anything like this before was with the Sanders 10C electrostats, but even they could not make a silk purse out of a seeming sow's ear the way the EVS stuff does. The Mercury Living Presence recordings are still way too bright, but that brightness is now so clean that I could almost care less since I'm standing at the conductor's podium and the brass and woodwinds are RIGHT THERE.
A word about the EVS Ground Enhancers alone: These have gotten mixed reviews from others online. I had thought that I might hear little effect from these, given that I'm already using the cleanest sounding interconnects and speaker cables (DNM) I've ever heard and that cleanness is further enhanced by a full complement of DNM HFTNs in parallel with the wires. Wrong. With every component, adding a $30 EVS Ground Enhancer to one of the component's ground connections (like a chassis screw, pin 1 of a balanced XLR connection, the black terminal of a speaker binding post, or the outside of an unused RCA jack) cleaned things up yet further to a significant degree and the effects of adding one to every component are cumulative. Going back and forth with and without the things is easy enough and the effect is not subtle.
Back to the cumulative effect of all the EVS stuff: Details captured in recordings that either weren't audible at all before or were only vaguely there, are revealed in an obvious way which adds to musical meaning, involvement, and my ability to hear "into" the recording--what was happening in front of the mikes when the recording was made. The energy and life of the musicians is so much more obvious, as is keeping track of what each player is doing at any given moment. This is so despite the top octaves seeming considerably smoother and more naturally integrated than before. Different recordings sound considerably more different from each other than before, but most all of them sound more naturally real in tonal balance and clarity. Real detail and real clarity, in other words, not "ruthless revelation."
Bass sounds deeper, punchier, with more power and growl, and yet more defined and differentiated. The definition part is already a strong point of these dipole-woofered speakers, but the EVS equipment takes this to a new level.
Besides the larger space and envelopment, what we normally think of as imaging and staging has changed a lot for the better. Individual images--especially soloists near the front of the stage centered or left or right--have an unprecedented amount of palpable presence, roundness, and three dimensional body to them, while at the same time sounding startlingly clean and naturally balanced. The stage is expanded both front to back and top to bottom.
Without very careful set up, the point-source-like Gradient Revs can sound like the sound is coming through a horizontal slit, without much height to the stage. My previous set up greatly ameliorated this problem. But now, without changing the physical positioning of anything in my system, the stage height bears no relation to the physical height (short) of the speakers at all, allowing all instruments to emanate from straight ahead, at a natural height on the stage and projecting their ambiance way up on many recordings. I can clearly hear sounds emanating from the placement of instruments and voices on the stage and expanding outward, upward, and/or from one side to the other as they often do live. Even so, the placement and stability of images on the stage is yet more defined.
The sonic background is blacker. This seems primarily to relate to the particular way the player is now mounted. By comparison with this new mounting system, the background can seem a bit or more "gray" or "noisy" without this mounting method. My old method was the best I knew about until now, and I've tried many different support methods and combinations, looking for the best combination of black background, tonal balance, clarity, reduction in high frequency nasties, and spatial characteristics. This new method is very obviously better in terms of sonic results--a no brainer which takes just a few seconds to hear.
There is a larger space for my head within which the spatial aspects of the presentation are stable. I've never experienced this sort of spatial stability before. Moving a few inches this way or that does not cause the spatial effects to fall apart as they did before.
The physical position of the speakers disappears entirely on many recordings. The "carved in space" presentation is very strong without sounding at all phasey.
Think a greatly lessened awareness that electronics are between you and the music. Think unamplified. That's the direction these things move the system sound. And it's a quite considerable move in that direction.
I have no real idea why the EVS equipment and recommended tweaks do what they do. Reduced jitter and just finer analog electronics perhaps, but that's pure speculation. I can't blame those who dismiss my claims of sonic improvements as ridiculous and unverifiable since I have no plausible explanation for what seem to me to be the considerable improvements in the presentation. For me the communicated connection with the music and the space (real or electronically fabricated) in which the music was performed is overwhelmingly stronger and better now than when I was using the stock Oppo BDP-105 without the Ground Enhancers and the player support methods now used in this otherwise-unchanged system.
Back to the sum total of the changes wrought by the EVS stuff and the EQ changes: The naturalness of the tonal balance of the system seems greatly improved. The sum of subjectively lowered distortion, more powerful yet more defined bass, more warmth, greater midrange naturalness and detail, and subjectively more relaxed highs moves the result further toward tonal realism. I'm not saying that this system yet sounds as tonally realistic as my Harbeth M40.1s in the midrange. The Gradients still sound a bit less tonally natural than those. There is an area around 800 Hz which needs to be pulled down a bit in level if I can find an EQ device which doesn't screw up the gains wrought by the EVS stuff. But the moves are all in the right direction and this combination of better subjective balance plus all the other improvements means that I find the Gradient system totally superior to any system I've set up around the Harbeths--or any other speakers I've ever owned, for that matter. But, if maximal midrange magic is most of your major musical mojo, I suspect that my living room Harbeth M40.1 system could be yet closer to what you're after.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study suggests young adults are more likely to get care and see a doctor when states extend the time they can stay on their parents' health insurance — a measure also mandated by the 2010 federal health care law.
The laws are meant to help those over 18, who typically outgrow their parents' plans but have trouble getting full-time jobs with health coverage after high school.
The authors say even though people between 19 and 29 years old make up 17 percent of adults under age 65, they account for almost 30 percent of the uninsured.
"Ultimately, these state laws, and the provision within the Affordable Care Act (ACA), help provide secure footing just when these young people are starting off on their own," said Dr. Alexander Blum, the study's lead author and a health policy researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
In September 2010, the federal government enacted a provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents' private insurance plans through age 26.
For their analysis, Blum and his colleagues looked at 19- to 23-year-olds living in states that passed laws extending their parents' coverage in 2005 or 2006, but did not include Massachusetts because it mandated health insurance.
Blum's team used a national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that asked about access to care.
In the years before the state laws' enactment — 2002 to 2004 — about 62 percent of the survey respondents could identify a primary doctor and about 77 percent had had a physical exam in the last two years.
A few years down the road – in 2008 to 2009 — the researchers observed modest improvements in those numbers to about 66 percent and 81 percent, respectively.
In the states that extended coverage, about 20 percent of the young adults reported during the earlier study period that they went without care due to cost. That number decreased to about 18 percent between 2008 and 2009.
Overall, those were modest improvements over states that did not pass laws extending coverage. And the number of young adults with insurance coverage rose about half a percentage point regardless of whether the state enacted a law or not.
Writing in the journal Pediatrics, Blum and his colleagues suggest this can be explained by the laws encouraging young adults to move to their parents' plans from less comprehensive coverage.
The authors cannot say for certain whether the differences were caused by the new state laws because the CDC's survey did not ask whether the young adults were covered under their parents' plan.
Alan Monheit, a health policy researcher at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, told Reuters Health that despite limitations of the new study, he believes the insurance extension in the federal law will lead to visible benefits.
"I think that we will see an improvement in coverage with the ACA, and I think the reason is that the ACA now ropes in the self-insured plans," said Monheit.
Self-insured plans are funded by employers and make up a large part of the U.S. health insurance market. The plans were typically exempt from the state laws that extended coverage to adult children, but are included under the federal law.
The inclusion of self-insured plans is just one of the differences between the state and federal laws, Blum's team notes, and they are the reason the ACA's impact will be much greater than that of the state laws.
"Even in the states that had a similar provision, they were much narrower," agreed Sabrina Corlette, a health policy researcher at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute who was not involved in the new study.
Corlette told Reuters Health that many of the state laws limited their insurance extensions based on whether the young adult was a student or married. The federal law expanded coverage in those categories.
In December 2011, the CDC reported that 2.5 million Americans between 19 and 25 years old were able to get health insurance thanks to the ACA.
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The end looms large, but it still a ways away and down the road a bit. But I kind of wanted to look back a little, month by month, at this blog. Maybe not every single month, but most, if I can. I guess I'm getting reacquainted with what I'm saying goodbye to? Or maybe in the back of my mind I'm always remembering that you have to put the chairs up before you turn the lights off and go home…
Previously: September, 2009 in parts one and two.
10/02/10: "And Then…" by one Marco Sparks: Pictures and Borges and links to previous Counterforce posts… Sigh. The more things change, the more they don't seem to matter, right?
10/04/10: "Tongues Of Flame" by yours truly: Pictures of girls in some sort of relationship with the water, and the horizon, and the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Well… Who knows what I was thinking or where I was coming from back then. I mean, I could tell you, but who cares?
It seems like the hipsters are all shit talking Eliot now, but I don't care. I still like him. Whenever I'm at my most lost, there's usually a few lines from Eliot that can perfectly describe where I am, what I'm feeling, and sometimes that's enough. Also, this poem was quoted in The Magus, which was a notoriously bad movie.
10/04/10: "The End Of The Story Is Unwritten" by myself: I really like Harlan Ellison, though it is sometimes to do so. I think at this point, when I was writing this post, I had yet to see the documentary about him, Dreams With Sharp Teeth, which is a fine film.
I'll always be a science fiction nut – maybe you've noticed? – but once or twice or thrice a year I really get back into it, and Ellison is one of those writers I go back to. To me, he's the ur-Neil Gaiman, but less magical and twee. I respect that Ellison doesn't suffer fools well, that he's serious about his craft and those who practice it. In many ways, it would appear that he is not a human at all, but a new creature, one best described in works of his favorite genre: all sharp edges and protected, wounded heart and acid and witty talent.
10/06/10: "Powers And Responsibilities/Up, Up, And Away We Go" by myself: Spider-Man and Superman! Perhaps some day I'll write a book about super heroes, and how they're trapped in our world and in desperate need of being given life beyond it, and just get it all out of my fucking system, you know?
Also, it's not like I need a reason to do a post with copious amounts of Emma Stone pictures. Seriously. And: Jon Hamm really should be playing Superman/Clark Kent.
10/06/10: "Crucifixes" by myself: I like Richard Pryor and I don't like religion. In fact, if I remember correctly, I shit talk about it a little on the latest episode of our podcast. But that's a whole other story, and one for another time.
If I were to get into the nuts and bolts, a post like this comes about like so many others that exist out there in the internet: I saw it somewhere and I liked it. Someone shared it with the world and I was one of those folks in the world who saw it and wanted to pass it along to the rest of my own little corner of the internetting world. I came, I saw, I reblogged.
10/08/10: "Animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others," by myself: Pictures by Dave Eggers, quotes by George Orwell and Voltaire, links from the internet. What a bizarre mixture.
10/09/10: "Nobody told me there'd be days like these," by myself: People who have problems with authority always gravitate towards John, don't they? Lennon is the favorite Beatle of the perpetually disenfranchised and the smart, smug assholes. I look back at some of these posts and want to delve into a little of the making of them, but… I don't know. Sometimes it's all right there in the post, you know? I wanted to do a post about my favorite Beatle, and maybe I was itching for a little Instant Karma.
10/09/10: "Vendettas" by myself: Tom Gauld!
10/12/10: "Running" by myself: This is just another thing I saw online and thought was funny. Also, it's October, the month of Halloween, the time for goblins and things that are a bit ghoulish and macabre, right?
10/12/10: "Who Is Natalie Portman Fucking These Days?" by myself: One of my favorite posts on this site, actually. If we talked about solely about celebs, then… Well, I imagine it'll be something like that. Of course now this post is severely dated… Black Swan has come and gone and we all know who Natalie Portman is fucking these days, and thankfully it's not John Mayer.
10/14/10: "Video Killed The Internet Star," by myself: Videos and links about movies and shit I found on the internet. You know… whatever. And a picture of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly.
10/14/10: "Meditations" by myself: "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." That sounds about right.
Some of the things you notice already about this month: Too many posts by me, which is boring. Lots of doubling up on days, with two posts a day for some reason. Lots of just little things from around the internet. The blog was the pin board for things I found interesting from around the web. Well, I guess in a lot of ways that's what it always was.
10/16/10: "Chaos Reigns" by myself: Ahhhh, YouTube comments. They are frequently a treat. I don't even understand why people bother to engage in "intelligent" discourse there.
In fact… most conversation on the internet is flawed. Severely. Nobody wins an internet argument. Like the famous webcomic says, you can spend your whole life standing vigilant, the sentinel against the raping of the truth, strong against the fact that Someone On The Internet Is Wrong, but there are no winners. You'll never best someone with your logic. Your insults and your put downs will never be properly scored. All people will see is that you were in an Internet Argument and everyone will be pronounced "Loser." State your case, and move on. Also, fix your typos.
10/16/10: "The Patient Labyrinth," by myself: Again, I was mesmerized by Borges and the ideas of puzzles and mazes of our own design during October of 2010. That was the theme running around somewhere in my head back then, I guess, and it was weakly explored, for sure.
(Also, you'll notice another picture of a young woman who has a curious relationship or proximity to the ocean…)
Again, I apologize that all these posts are just me. The difference between myself and my co-authors, I believe, was that they wrote when they had something to say and the energy to say it. I always had something to say on this blog, and usually pursued that impulse even when I didn't have the energy to do it right, or as coherently as it should've been. I think it's fair to say that I deserve the lion's share of credit for any failings of this blog. A lot of my favorite posts on Counterforce were those written by the others.
10/18/10: "Red Dawn" by myself: Ahhh, Laura Leighton. Proto-Emma Stone, perhaps? Perhaps not.
10/18/10: "Bad Things" by myself: True Blood! Looking at this, I'm just reminded of how weird the finale of the latest season of the show was.
10/19/10: "I Got You Babe" by August Bravo and myself: This is us talking about Mad Men's fourth season finale, "Tomorrowland." Just so weird to see us looking over the episode and being curious and confused and pondering where the show would go next.
And now, two years later, we've seen the season that followed it and saw where things went from there and we're still left wondering, What's Next?
10/20/10: "The Fate Of The Blogger" by myself. I'll be brief on this one: I like Eddie Campbell. Also, it's two years later and I'm still pondering the fate of the blogger.
10/21/10: "What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from," by myself: Ha ha. A mash up between Sylvia Plath and Saved By The Bell.
10/22/10: "I Walked With A Zombie," by myself: Links and funny pictures, but there's something else here too… Something that I sense and feel now, but perhaps didn't notice at the time, a kind of darkness. Beyond the seasonal darkness, I mean. I guess that would make sense. The second half of The Year We
Make Made Contact was especially hard on me.
10/23/10: "The Boob Tube" by myself: This is me ranting about what's wrong with popular TV and how it could be fixed/saved. And now Benjamin Light and I do a podcast about this. We're on a mission to civilize! But, anyway, a lot of these notes still make sense and feel relevant, and desperately need to be read and followed by the people running some of these shows. Now more than ever, perhaps. The thoughts about The Office and Community, especially. But thankfully The Office is (finally) ending after this season, and Community is most likely ending this year (if they ever decide to air the new season at all). Why? Because NBC is dumb as shit and they're not afraid to show it.
10/23/10: "The Year Of The Depend Adult Undergarment" by myself: David Foster Wallace!
10/24/10: "Nintendo Power" yours truly: The idea of the "friend zone" is total bullshit but I just thought this image was funny and wanted to share it. Thanks, Mario, but…
10/25/10: "All Things Truly Wicked" by myself: Ernest Hemingway! Paper Hemingway was a mean, messed up old bastard, but I still like him, despite all his flaws. And I feel that every time I start to accumulate those flaws, just the obvious ones, and add them up… Well, then I'll see one of his quotes out of the blue and it'll just fit into something missing puzzle piece in my brain at that moment and I'm flashing back to what a great writer he was. Also, it's funny, but we still get a decent number of hits to this particular post from an old BuzzFeed post from a year ago that's nothing but pictures of Ernest Hemingway partying like a maniac.
10/25/10: "This Is Still True" by myself: Again, more authors and pictures and quotes. This time, it's Vonnegut. I hope the kids these days are still reading Vonnegut. His was such a delicate balance of moral righteousness and self loathing, but married together so charmingly.
10/27/10: "Which Came First" by myself: I don't know what to say about this post, though it's weird to look at these almost a full two years later.
10/27/10: "Ma-Sheen Man" by myself: From pictures of and quotes by famous authors to… this. I regret blogging about Charlie Sheen. About Charlie Sheen and so many other things.
10/27/10: "You were an island and I passed you by," by yours truly: Not the greatest post, but one of my favorites by myself here on the site. Roger Ebert has a great quote in his recent Cloud Atlas review: "Any explanation of a work of art must be found in it, not taken to it." I agree with that wholeheartedly, but I keep thinking about the questions and the digressions of thought that come out of the works of art. I keep thinking about the way works of art can act as explanations for ourselves, for our lives, for the way we live and exist and make our way through the complicated cosmic murals we're all sloshing around in.
Anyway. If you know me or not, illustrated in this post about Lost is basically a diagram for how my own personal thought processes tend to work, bouncing from thing to thing, riding along the little connections, going from medium to medium and then essentially looking back at where I started from. As you've seen, it's a convoluted process, and one that doesn't always yield the most fruitful results, but hopefully it's been fun at times for you. It certainly has for me.
10/29/10: "Vampire Sluts" by myself: Kate Beaton! I really like Hark! A Vagrant. I like it a lot.
10/29/10: "The risk of going too far" by myself: Pictures and links and words by T. S. Eliot. Too far is never far enough, right? Or something.
10/31/10: "Samhain" by myself: I like how this post starts "Another year, another Halloween." It's said with such weariness, or, at least, that's how I perceive it now. That's how I feel now, anyway. Another year, another Halloween, and a little more of the magic is gone. The masks are getting heavy, folks. Also interesting that the second line is about how once Halloween arrives you have to accept the inevitable: the year is fading away. The same can be said for now, just as it was back in the year we made contact, only when this year fades away, so does this blog.
Edited to add: I meant to post this at the tail end of October and obviously that did not happen. Sorry. Real life shit got in the way.
10/31/10: "Las Ruinas Circulares" by myself: This is one of my favorite stories by Borges. Fitting for the time of the year, perhaps. I've always felt that there's a tenuous connection between dreams and the dreamer of those dreamers, something akin to the chicken and the egg. That may be a little too heavy.
from here.
10/31/10: "Season Of The Witch" by myself: Ha ha. Christine O'Donnell. Ha ha.
The odyssey of the Republican party in the last ten years or so has only gotten more sad and tragic, and Christine O'Donnell is just another one of their sad war stories, I think. Ignoring her for the most part, or this Gawker story about some guy's claims of having had a one night stand with her, what I really was interested in was the comments section on that post. Internet comments are, of course, terrible. Trolls begetting trolls, all hiding under their bridges and flinging out their shit and hate upon the world with no consequences. And I guess that's what fascinated me: the way people weigh in on things when there's no rules, no consequences.
10/31/10: "Paradise Circus" by myself: I first heard this song in an episode of True Blood's third season and it just floored me. A few years ago, during a particularly hard time I was going through, this song was my summer jam, which kind of tells you what that summer was like for me, I think.
It was during that summer that I first started watching the cop show, Luther, a British show starring Idris Elba as the titular detective, and "Paradise Circus" was the theme song for the show, which instantly tells you that it's going to be unlike any other kind of cop show that you can imagine. Luther is a fun show, a bit silly at times, but darkly interesting and all the actors on the show do very interesting work, Idris Elba especially. I'm glad that he backed out of playing Alex Cross to keep doing (other) movies and eventually a third series of Luther.
And Ruth Wilson, who is exceptional on the show as his sociopathic ally of sorts, is rumored to be in the next Avengers movie. I kind of doubt that will happen, but I'd really like to see it.
But anyway, that's another thing for another time. Again, in a less interesting way, this post was similar to the one about Lost from a few days earlier… Just a glimpse into the way a thing will pop up into your life and spawn legs and connect to other things. And those things, be it songs or TV shows or whatever, will just find you. Claim you, when you think you're claiming them. It couldn't been tackled in a much more interesting or succinct way, definitely, but that stuff still fascinates me.
And that's how the month of October, 2010 ends. Maybe we didn't create the blog. Maybe it created us?
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I enjoyed doing this, so I think I'm going to do a few more retrospectives of other months in the history of this blog before it becomes permanently just that: History. Again, I don't think I have the time, space, nor total desire to do every single month, but at least a few more, if I can help, and quite a few more, if the universe is kind. Any suggestions for which month to look back on next?


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