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For the 2017 season through April 3, which totals 15 games, MLS is averaging 261,667 viewers compared to 284,842 after 11 games during the same time period at the beginning of the 2016 season.
260k people nationwide watching this sps "league". Home shopping network gets more viewers
Just shut it down
The teams are popular and profitable on a local level, so there will be more of them
The problem with TV is that there are four leagues with huge TV coverage that are better (EPL, Mexican League, La Liga, Bundesliga)(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3579074&forum_id=2#33033495)
biglaw is law's equivalent of a major professional league(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3579074&forum_id=2#33033563)
Work backwards from there.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3579074&forum_id=2#33589531)
EPL ratings in the US were also down this year, probably because the average fan isn't as aware of soccer three years after the last World Cup. Russia next year should help (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3579074&forum_id=2#33589424)
It'll be a major milestone when MLS teams are winning CONCACAF Champion's League consistently and that's just past the horizon.
Once europhiles and Mexicans get over their prejudice toward the league it'll be golden.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3579074&forum_id=2#33589458)
MLS is almost entirely about going in person. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3579074&forum_id=2#33592412)


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This morning I needed to edit some python scripts from a local server at work and, as always, used the TRAMP Emacs mode, but immediately found a problem. A few months ago I installed the great python refactoring library rope and its Emacs mode ropemacs. It comes out that ropemacs asks you for the location of your rope project if it cannot find it (this always happens the first time you start a project).
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Traceback (most recent call last): ... ... File "/usr/lib/python2.6/.../ropemode/interface.py", line 88, in open_project self.project = rope.base.project.Project(root) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/.../rope/base/project.py", line 134, in __init__ os.mkdir(self._address) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/ssh:user@server:/path'
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Sight Words from vanessa on Vimeo.
One thing I did not include in my recent Web 2.0 entry was digital storytelling - I was saving the best for last! Digital storytelling incorporates a variety of multimedia such as audio narration, music, video, and still images to tell a story. See my example above.
Digital storytelling has taken the educational world by storm, due in part to the power it has to engage and motivate the learner. Digital storytelling can also be used by any age group from pre-k to college level. Young children can be involved in the making of a digital story in a variety of ways, such as taking photographs with a digital camera, acting out scenes, drawing pictures and scanning the images, and narrating the story with their own words. When the students are involved in the creation of the digital story it becomes very meaningful to them and, thus, a very effective teaching tool.
Digital storytelling is only one example in a vast array of Web 2.0 tools available to teachers in the classroom today, and it is one that my students enjoy a great deal. Whenever I tell them we are going to make a "movie" they are on their best behavior because they are highly motivated to participate. Photographing our sight word story above took about 30 minutes, start to finish, but they were engaged the entire time, putting on and taking off the vests, helping put the letters in order, and singing the songs. Now, each morning we start our day by viewing our sight word video; it's an engaging and meaningful way to teach sight words.
Don't know where to start? Here's a quick breakdown of the steps for creating a digital story:
- Surf the net looking for examples of digital stories others have created for inspiration
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You can break the steps down over a series of days, taking pictures one day, importing and arranging photos the next, and adding narration on another. You can also create a Power Point, convert it, and then import it into Photo Story if you're more comfortable with Power Point.
Our next project is going to be a re-telling of the classic story Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. The students will wear the same vests from the sight word story as they act out the scenes from the book and narrate it as well. The possibilities for digital storytelling are endless; you are only limited by your imagination.


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Volusia County
Florida Febry 20th 1861
To His Excellency Madison S Perry
Governor of the State of Florida
We the undersigned resident Citizens of Volusia County would respectfully represent to your Excellency that in the imperiling and critical state of our present National affairs, the Sea Coast of our County and of the other Counties bordering and lying on the Atlantic, are liable at any moment to be invaded by a hostile force or Band of Marauders, who from the sparsely populated state of most of these Counties near the Coast, would at any time be able to land, and commit such acts of hostility and depredation as would in a short time, drive them from their homes and render the inhabitants thereof utterly destitute, or cause them to lose all the fruits of many years labor, toil and industry.
Under these apparent circumstances your Petitioners would respectfully request your Excellency to urge upon the General Assembly the necessity of providing some means of defense for our common safety; and at the same time would beg leave to suggest to your consideration, that a Steamer of proper Draft of water to enter the different Bars and Inlets on the Atlantic portion of our State, well manned and properly manned ^armed, under a skillful commander—well acquainted with our Coast, would prevent our enemies from landing, and would protect our lives and property.
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All eyes will be on the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington next week with one question in mind -- will those gathered take steps to move investment beyond the grid?
Just this week, Politico reported that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former President Clinton are set to attend. With a long list of U.S. Government dignitaries also expected, the event will send an important signal for the future of President Obama's Power Africa Initiative. Now's the time for that signal to be loud and clear - Power Africa is doubling down on investment in solar markets beyond the grid.
Earlier this summer, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced at an event in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, a groundbreaking new $1 billion initiative as a part of Power Africa dubbed "Beyond the Grid." The initiative builds on more than 25 small-scale energy projects already in the Power Africa pipeline to catalyze a distributed clean energy deployment. To build the initiative and drum up investment, the Administration pulled together 27 founding partners - including impact investors, venture philanthropists, clean-energy enterprises, and practitioners - who have committed to invest over $1 billion over the next five years to seed and scale distributed energy solutions for millions of African homes, businesses, schools, and other public facilities.
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Underneath those numbers lies an even more exciting idea -- that energy access can develop just like communications have. All across the developing world -- but especially in Africa -- mobile phone technology has leapfrogged land line telephones entirely. In fact, three out of every four new mobile phone subscribers are now in the developing world. The same cannot be said of energy access.
Research from Group Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA) shows how both energy and water access lag far behind the penetration of cell phones in Africa. In total, 411 million people worldwide, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa, have a mobile phone but no way to charge it. It's this convergence of un-electrified populations and mobile phones that is creating a tremendous new opportunity for solar power.
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But while this market is growing rapidly -- 77 percent in 2014 according to the Global Off Grid Lighting Association -- it's cash-starved and needs support. That's why the industry has been demanding a new $500 million fund from the World Bank (join them and sign our petition). Here are a few steps the summit can take to further back this vital industry:
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Ben is hot? Or Ben is not hot?
Written by Duana
Previously on Gossip Girl, Chuck had to stand in front of a seated Blair in order to look tall, Serena yelled at mom and Ben about liking Ben, and Rufus decided the appropriate way to deal with it was to give Ben a loft. Also, Chuck likes Reyna whose father is going to buy Bass, and Eric is in the clutches of Damian "Drug Dealer" Zegers.
Sun flare, NYC. GG says a little prayer each morning. Reyna, in another jewel tone dress, tries to kick Chuck out, but he jumps her.
Blair swans into W in a skirt I ADORE. Everly(?) dumps work on her. Sigh. Serena checks her messages – no dice. Dan opens the door to a parole officer and Ben, and Rufus like "what's your problem"?
Chuck wants to get physical with Reyna's vibrating phone. She stops sexing to answer her daddy's phone call, and jumps off the Chuck.
W. Everly is fussed about a band something, and yells at Blair re: her upcoming performance review. Blair realizes Emily needs to get laid and the girl who gets lines opposite her gives the worse rendition of the words "Pimp DADdy" ever. B's going to pimp her with Chuck.
Rufus tells his adopted son he can have the run of the place while Dan sulks in the corner. Rufus says he told Dan he might do this but Dan doesn't seem to remember. Dan tells his dad Lily and Serena are going to be mad, but we know that ain't true…
Park. Eric's freezing. He waits for Damian, who blows off the movie. He might have to blow town. Eric is all concerned – Damian implies it's about Ben. And the wheels begin to turn…Damian says Ben 'jumped' him and Eric vows to figure something out.
Pool(table). Chuck in a suit, Nate in clothes that guarantee he never leaves the house. Chuck wonders how long he'll have to shtup Reyna before she tells her dad not to buy Bass industries. Blair arrives, announces to Chuck they're taking over one of the hotels. He nods, they need each other's help. Hooray!
Finally, Serena. My vocal cords weren't strained enough. She eats berries by hand from a bowl which is NOT going to be good for her manicure. Dan is irritated Serena is naïve about Ben and Juliette being oh, SIBLINGS. Serena's willful, Dan calls her on having a crush. Then Ben calls.
Meanwhile, Eric's libido makes him yell at Dan that Ben is dangerous.
Blair asks Chuck to service Everly. He's flattered, but busy. Blair's all "no kidding, dude, she's a girl, flatter her". She's adorable when she's advising him. Then it turns out she can pimp Nate.
When is something going to happen here?
Eric and Dan stew over Ben. Damian Zegers appears, Dan and his duckbill hair say they won't help Zegers.
The hotel. Reyna and Daddy are ready to buy, Chuck appears, somehow takes Reyna to lunch and Dad implies he hopes they're good in bed together.
Serena apologizes for buying Ben a fancy bookcase and 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'. Which apparently was a seduction tool for her. He invites her for lunch. I love these New York days that are 36 hours long.
Nate and Everly are on a date while Blair pushes him to bang her. She implies he's bad in bed and Everly heads back to the office. Oh, they've been saying "Florence And The Machine" seventeen times so I take it they might appear.
Lunch. Chuck grew up in the hotel! Waiters were his waiters! Or…brothers! Reyna moved into a hotel too, because her mom left. They're the same! Chuck vaguely wonders if banging her wouldn't have been easier.
Loft. Serena and Ben flirt. She pretends she can't take a spicy tuna roll, which in my mind equals AMATEUR. Hasn't she been eating sushi since she was three? Ben feels at home in the loft, so - sorry about that, Dan. Who comes home, and Serena busts out. Ben pretends he understands Dan's concern, which is the most concerning of all. Also, his phone rings saying "Juliet". I like when this show tells me how to spell people's names.
Chuck is being open for Reyna loudly on the phone, who overhears him. On the other end of the phone, Blair works her scheme, how charming Nate thinks Reyna is. Both plans work – Nate spirits off to flatiron his hair before the party.
Serena appears and Blair tells her she only cares about Ben because he pisses off her mother.
Dan and Ben bitch about where plates go. Ben didn't know Dan lived here. I do not understand how Lainey thinks this skinny-necked turtle is attractive. (Lainey: HOT) They dickswing over who is or isn't with Serena.
I love that W is having another party tonight. It's the best. Ben's going with S.
Blair tries to talk Everly into going to the party. "Trust me, it's like riding a very cute bike." B swears she'll coordinate calls for Everly's job and then immediately fails to do so. Hooray!
Photogs, dresses. I love this sequence every time. B is unsubtle in pushing Nate and Everly together. Nate says "Epperly" which, if that's her name, I'm going to die.
Serena is dressed in a lot of pink sparkly…something. She kind of looks like my mom. Ben is all "These parties? Every week?" He's not long for this world.
Reyna. Jewel Tones. They play each other. Reyna is looking for his hiding place (not a euphemism).
Damian purposely falls into Ben – then they threaten each other. If they were attractive, this would be hot. Sorry,Lainey. (Lainey: I agree. Damian is short and gross) Eric's wearing eyeliner. Dan doesn't want to call the cops on Ben until he reveals violent tendencies. But then he does. Damian informs Eric he needs to punch him in the face.
Bad intern informs Blair all gift bags are gone and Epperly is going to be mad. GAH. Remember when her name was Emily?
Reyna (Raina?) and Chuck make cute in the kitchen. She says she can keep him from losing the palace hotel. Then her daddy appears. He's mad and says Chuck kept her away on purpose. Chuck, who's never had to shave ever, looks guilty .
Serena introduces people poorly, and Ben wants to jet. Zegers and Eric appear to frame Ben, who won't defend himself.
Florence and the Machine. Not the song the baby dances to in the youtube vid. Serena is still trying to understand why Ben would hit anyone. Dan basically unfurls how he framed Ben and Serena heads off.
Reyna checks to make sure Chuck really is a horrible person. He's all "I didn't love you until today, but now I do." She's unmoved. Ed Westwick tries to emote, to little effect.
Florence's outfit is bad.
Ben's parole officer is chewing the scenery all over the place, and Ben kind of puts up with it. S comes running out to get Ben to defend himself, but he's uninterested.
Blair's dress has, like, red satin suspenders. He informs that Epperleigh (why not?) ran off with some Brit, and Blair has to move all the gift bags by herself.
Zegers dumps Eric unceremoniously for the second time in as many weeks.
Dan at the bar. Rufus arrives. Love this. Rufus is mildly surprised Dan doesn't want Ben around. Rufus thought he was doing the right thing. Eric appears, confesses. He hit Damian, not Ben. Dan runs off in search of helping. PLODDING PLEASE STOP SO BORING.
Dumbo. Bedtime. Dan talks to Rufus, looks for Eric. Rufus is not so concerned that he can't have juice. Ben arrives, wants an apology from Dan, who really needs to be wearing a T shirt under his sweater.
Dan begs Ben to stay living with him, Serena said he should be trusted. She appears from a bedroom like a Barbie dream house. Wait, what? Dan leaves for Nate, inexplicably, as Serena does the slow stride of seduction.
Eric comes in with coffee, Rufus wants to 'talk'. Eric points out he has no other friends so why wouldn't he hang with Damian? Rufus does the whispervoice of 'that kind of guy is always around'.
Hotel. Chuck's too-tight suit. Reyna in grey. Apparently Blair called her and told her everything. CB "When it comes to me, Blair has a nasty habit of never being wrong". They agree to keep business separate, for another week. Winsome music? What?
CB texts Blair "Thank You". Blair is fussed about what Epperly is doing. She comes in, and announces she quit. Blair doesn't want her to quit – until Epperly announces she's the queen of the interns. It's going to involve 6 AM start time and six blackberries. Yay?
Reyna, in purple, says Daddy has to help Chuck be part of the new company after he buys it. Daddy does that 'squinting and proud' thing that real parents don't.
Nate and Dan find Damian at his apartment. They told his Daddy he was doing drugs. So – that part was true then?
Serena and Ben, eyef*cking and murmuring about how nothing will drive them apart. UGH. Exhausting. More Blair next time, please and thanks?
Apparently, next time Blair wears a brocade dress, so that's already promising. Also a gold lame blazer.
(Lainey: attached – Ed Westwick being grossly and shamefully hot – also ridiculous – in London today at the Chalet Girl premiere with the up and coming Felicity Jones, avoiding America while his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend basks in the glow of the Super Bowl.)
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Going to Our Green Card Interview: Married Lesbian Couple in San Jose, California Will Prove Their Marriage is "Real" and Fight for Legal "Recognition"
We should be thrilled! We are finally meeting with our local U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in San Jose, California for our long-awaited, much anticipated, green card interview. This is a big moment for us, perhaps more so because, well let's face it, green card interviews are, and should be, just a routine matter for a married couple like us. After all we've been through together since we committed to each other in 2006, we share everything in our lives, and we are as married as any couple. And, more than most, we have certainly fought for this marriage. More than 250,000 Americans sponsor their spouses for green cards and attend these interviews each year. It is our time.
While we should be excited, we are of very mixed emotions as we near the date of the interview. It isn't much fun preparing to hear an immigration officer tell you that your marriage counts for nothing, that your marriage certificate is meaningless, that your love and commitment are irrelevant, and finally that your country doesn't want your wife. We know that rejection here means that Karin loses her right to stay in the United States. We won't go down without a fight!
When we received the official notice of the interview date (Friday, September 7, 2012), enclosed in the same envelope was a helpful list of suggested documents to bring to the interview. It's a long list, and it's the kind of thing that makes you feel like a number, not a person. Birth certificate, check. Passport, check. Marriage license, check. Domestic partner papers, check. Bank statements, check. Three years of taxes with W-2s, check, and more. Yuck! And that's for me – Karin has her own list of things to bring. We are also putting together a photo album showing the life that we have built and shared together since we committed to each other in 2006. We have added in a few press clippings to remind the officer that we have been involved in a very public advocacy effort to fight for the right just to have this interview in the first place!
I try to remain optimistic, knowing that working together with The DOMA Project and with many other binational couples, we have brought ourselves just a little closer to being treated equally, like real, living and breathing human beings. After writing Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law (Findhorn Press, 2011), I became more convinced than ever of the extraordinary power that we all have to tell our stories and make our voices heard. Not only can change only come about when we confront and engage the system that is shutting us out, if we remain passive, if we simply wait for change to come, it never will. With this in mind, I am hopeful. And Karin and I so appreciate all those who have shared their stories and joined this fight.
However, I have to admit that I can't help but feel dehumanized by the oxymoronic task of proving that we are spouses in a real bona fide marital relationship to a government official whose marching orders are not to "recognize" our marriage. Certainly, this officer will recognize it immediately for exactly what it is: a marriage of two loving people, who want to spend the rest of their lives together, just like all other marriages. So there's the weird reality of not "recognizing" what the eye can so clearly see. The United States government has a way of making me feel icky and I don't like it. I don't look forward to being told that my life and my wife don't measure up, that we are legal strangers to each other in spite of our marriage and that we don't get 100% of the rights that we should have, even though I pay 100% of the taxes and have 100% of the responsibilities all other American spouses have. It's not fair and I resent it. And yet, I am looking forward to being in that room and telling my side of the story. This is the first step toward completing a process we hope will eventually result in Karin receiving a green card; and it is what we have been fighting for all these years.
One thing that surprised me was how sweet it was to see the photos Karin was assembling for the meeting. We were told to bring a few photos to show that we knew each other, were involved with each other, that sort of thing. Oh, and that we are married. I am usually not demonstrative, sentimental, that way, but the pictures were a great reminder of what is really at stake here! I have to admit, I teared up seeing pictures of us getting married and celebrating, and also seeing family and friends who shared our joy and are no longer with us. Bittersweet for sure.
I remember how I felt when we decided to marry. It was heady! We had been closely following the efforts of The DOMA Project which started filing green card petitions for gay couples in the summer of 2010. In March 2011, after the President announced that he was no longer defending DOMA, there were a few days filled with media reports about what turned out to be a short-lived "abeyance" that local USCIS offices in Baltimore and Washington, DC had implemented for DOMA-related green card marriage petitions. We took that as a positive development and decided to take the step of getting married. We found a B & B, the town clerk and a justice of the peace in Vermont, then got plane tickets and a rental car. We chose Vermont because the wait from license to marriage was only one day, so we could save money over getting married in the other states with a three-day wait. How romantic, eh? Plus after waiting for so many years to finally push the envelope and fight for that green card, we knew that we wanted to be a part of this battle to the end. Around that time we were interviewed by Thomas Roberts on MSNBC and we told him on national television that we had just run off and got married in Vermont. It was important for us to get the message across that we were not going to simply wait for equality to happen, we were going to make it happen.
We laugh now to think of our exploit – rushing to Vermont, eloping, when it looked like things were loosening up for same-sex binational couples. All we could think of then was to get married soon – after being told for years that getting married would cause problems for Karin every time she returned from the United Kingdom on a visitor visa. That all came rushing back to me when I saw us with that slice of cake. When you think of marriage, you can get caught up in money, trappings, things that don't matter. For me, what matters is Karin. I know she thinks I am what matters. It's not even about our rings, the paper, the ceremony. We have lived it for years and we know it just by looking in each others' eyes. Yet getting married in a state where we had never been, with four people there that we had never met, and a stale slice of cake was perfect for us. We knew we were married, and had been. This just made it one step more legal, and soon our collective persistence, demanding full recognition of our marriages will bring an end to DOMA and the catastrophic impact it has had for so many gay and lesbian couples whose families have been torn apart and whose marriages have been destroyed.
Of course Karin and I have considered ourselves "married" all the time we have been together, even before ceremony and formal paperwork. We were married in our hearts when we had to be separated for months at a time while she dutifully obeyed the rules imposed on temporary visitors and returned to England after visiting me in California. She lead her life there while I worked, until one day it just was too much for us. After a nine-month separation, I took early retirement so that Karin and I could be together both in and out of America. It was sad to have my two wonderful retirement parties without her; it was very difficult to do that without my wife. Soon after we reunited in Canada and spent weeks traveling there before we successfully re-entered the U.S. in North Dakota in the summer of 2009.
Later that year and the following years when we were forced to be out of the country together, living as "love exiles," we were married in our hearts. We didn't have the kind of marriage that would satisfy Uncle Sam and so we had to follow those general guidelines for visitors: spending six months (if we were lucky) together in America, and six months in exile somewhere in the world. Of course it's wonderful and exciting and amazing to spend months in another country. We had wonderful family visits and fascinating explorations of Scotland, England, France, Spain and Andorra. But we want to be home together. Like any other couple, we wanted to plan our own trips, to travel and see the world, and to return home when we wanted, but instead we were being forced into an artificial timetable by my own government. We were driven out of the U.S. for six months at a time, unable to return until we were sure Karin would be permitted to visit again. We will not live like this any more. In retirement, we yearn for tranquility and stability. We want to be left alone to enjoy our golden years together and take care of each other.
Karin continues to work on our photo album for the green card interview. I smile and laugh when I see that goofy picture of us sharing a slice of cake from a diner in Vermont that we took to the justice of the peace as our wedding cake. Plastic forks and a paper plate! No napkin… I cringe, but then grin, when I see myself wearing a flower headpiece and cutting a multi-tiered wedding cake for our tea party celebration September 29, 2007 for our domestic partnership. So far the pictures of us smashing cake into each others' faces from the February 14, 2007 domestic partnership event our local LGBT Center held have not surfaced. I think I'm glad for that.
So Karin and I are legally both domestic partners and married spouses, but still we have to cope with the problems caused by Defense of Marriage Act. I try to hold onto my faith in America but it is harder to see the good when so much bad happens to people like us. Husbands fear being torn apart, wives too – and the families with children. It breaks my heart, bruises my soul.
Our immigration lawyer, Lavi Soloway—the architect of this brilliant strategy to confront DOMA and hold government agencies accountable for the harm they cause LGBT families—will attend the green card interview with us. We are so grateful for his counsel and support, his insistence that we empower ourselves, assume our own equality, and, of course, for his innovative legal strategies.
Congressman Mike Honda has been a wonderful ally – going to bat for us this summer by requesting that USCIS hold our case in abeyance before the interview on the grounds that DOMA would be soon resolved by the Supreme Court (USCIS has so far refused to do so). We are thankful for his staff's dedication to this issue as we again make formal requests for our green card case to be put on hold, with a United States Supreme Court decision expected nine months from now, perhaps sooner.
We are grateful for the support, hard work and creative strategies developed and implemented by Stop the Deportations, Separation and Exiles: The DOMA Project. The law firm of Masliah & Soloway created this campaign to focus like a laser on the impact of DOMA on same-sex binational couples, and our interview is evidence of the incremental success they have achieved. We are lucky to have had the opportunity to work with Brynn Gelbard of the DeVote Campaign whose passion and energy for telling the stories of same-sex binational couples is boundless. We are so thankful for the broad community of binational couples and the organizations that help keep a focus on this issue, including Out4Immigration, Immigration Equality, Love Exiles Foundation and United by Love Portrait Project. Finally, Karin and I will never forget the support and encouragement of Elizabeth Gilbert, a strong ally and the reason I wrote the book that needed writing.
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Thanks all for all your work to keep couples and families like ours together and safe. Appreciate it!September 1, 2012
Ruby Layson
I wish both of you the best. And you should feel proud that you are laying the groundwork for a totally new policy that will affect many people in similar circumstances.September 1, 2012
Donna Helm
Best wishes with your green card interview. I will be pulling for you!September 1, 2012
Thank you guys for being so open and public about this! I wish you both the best of luck!September 2, 2012
Susan Letendre
My thoughts and prayers are with you this week, as always. What a moving story, Judy & Karin! Abrazos, SusanSeptember 2, 2012
Jerry Rosa
Wishing you the very best!
My Husband and I have ours on Monday 9/10.
We're nervous/excited.September 2, 2012
Judy and Karin congratulations I pray all goes well for your interview this friday coming. Thank you for all that you do like you said when we should be living a tranquil life in retirement.September 2, 2012
When is the meeting, Judy? Thank you for the great strength and courage it takes to keep battling this, day after day. And for all those wonderful photos of love, love, love. Love will prevail. It is stronger than hate.
My wife Martha arrived in Charlotte today, as Democrats Abroad delegate to the DNC. She spent time with her Mom in Redwood City before taking the next leg of her journey from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where we live in exile. Precious time and I have seen photo's telling just how great it was for her 84 year old mother to have her there, even if it was for just a couple of days.
At the DNC this issue, our issue, is one of the issues she will be pushing forward. Democrats Abroad take on issues that matter to overseas US citizens and they recognize this as a big one. Of course they do – love exiles have been active and workshopping this issue for years with fellow US citizens abroad, in Amsterdam, Paris, London, Madrid, Copenhagen, Quebec, Mexico City. Democrats Abroad gets it. If anyone knows a delegate that Martha should speak with, and can help set up the meeting, now is the time!
with love
LinSeptember 3, 2012
My prayers are with you both for the meeting on Friday. Please let us know what happens.September 3, 2012
I know I don't have to tell you both to be strong, as you are both that and so much more, but we are aware of the toll that this fight has on those of us who are in this situation.
Lots of luck at the interview ladies. We will all win this in the end, and the end to this unnecessary and cruel law is coming soon.
Janice & Margie.
xoxSeptember 4, 2012
Sending you hope, love and strength! Thank you so much for fighting!!! xSeptember 5, 2012
Steve and Ricardo
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.
Let the next chapter begin!September 6, 2012
thank you for fighting… for all of us..
They say we never fight for nothing….
My blessings/love and strength to you both…
~~<3<3September 6, 2012
we admire your conviction and your strength. We are
both praying for the best outcome of this case. Thank
you for your courage and perseverance.September 7, 2012
I hope your interview went well. I eagerly await to hear how it went. You are in my prayers.
My husband Daniel and i just submitted our petition to immigration recently. Our journey to equality has begun andvwe are ready to fight for our freedoms every step of the way.
United we will prevail!September 8, 2012


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Two people were killed and property worth millions was destroyed between August 27 and December 4. The strike was then suspended.
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According to the report, an addendum to the majority-party report on MF Global's bankruptcy by the House Financial Services Committee, MF Global told the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) that it did not have any exposure to European sovereign debt in September 2010. Had the firm disclosed the debt at the time, "it could have forced MF Global to appropriately disclose its investment that much earlier and take appropriate capital charges for its investment at that time."
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While speaking on his SiriusXM radio show Tuesday night, Daly blasted the PGA on its drug-testing policy, saying the association does not conduct random drug testing.
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It's time to talk about carrier bloatware on smartphones. Actually, it's long past time. You know what I'm talking about: It's all those apps that come pre-loaded on your new phone when you buy it, most of which are trial versions or apps for subscription services offered through the carrier. I had read a little about this problem prior to getting my Motorola Droid Razr Maxx recently, and now I've had the displeasure of a firsthand experience.
I understand the phone manufacturers' and carriers' desire to include these apps on new phones. It's a simple way of advertising additional services they offer (in the case of their own apps) or of collecting a fee from another app publisher for that placement. It's the same thing that's been done on Microsoft and Apple desktop OSs for years. The problem here is that many of these smartphone apps are now being preinstalled in such a way that you, the end user and owner of the smartphone, can't uninstall the app if you don't want it.
This problem primarily affects Android phones currently. Apple has the iPhone ecosystem locked down pretty nicely -- for now -- so that only the basic apps for usability come preinstalled on those phones. With Windows Phones, you'll likely see preinstalled carrier apps; however, I haven't heard of any cases where users weren't able to uninstall those apps if they choose to. And to me, that's the crux of the problem growing in the Android ecosystem: taking away that choice from end users. I might want to use those apps, but if I don't, I want them gone, and gone for good.
So, what's the problem with having these apps on your phone? The first thing people will often complain about is that they're taking up storage memory, and while that's true, I'd say that's a minor problem. Most of these apps are fairly small, with sizes measured in kilobytes or low megabyes. Unless you're taking tons of pictures or video with your phone, or downloading apps like crazy, the gigabytes of storage that come on your phone is probably sufficient. Of bigger concern to me is the background processes these apps can be running, using processing power, battery life, and potentially data.
For instance, on my Razr Maxx, I get a notification every day from the market -- oops, I mean the Play Store (what?!) -- that there are updates available for apps I've never used and have hidden (since I can't delete them). Nonetheless, they're going out and checking for updates, and I have to dismiss this notification every day. I could turn on automatic updating for these apps to avoid the notification, but then they'd be using my data to download an update that I don't want or need. Meanwhile, the market is using my battery life and my processing power to tell me about these apps I don't care about, and I have no way to make it stop. (If anyone has figured out a way to make it do so, please let me know.)
Additionally, it was reported in a study out of North Carolina State University that the preinstalled apps on Android phones can lead to specific security vulnerabilities. Apps require specific permissions to access features or capabilities of the phone. What this research showed was that certain app combinations could "leak" permissions to other apps, which could then be exploited by malicious agents to compromise phone data and user privacy. Essentially, the researchers say this security model is good, but it's flawed in its implementation with some of these apps.
When you think of the use of Android smartphones in business, with phones being supported by corporate IT departments, this problem of unauthorized apps takes on another dimension. Android phones have already gotten somewhat of a black eye for business use. It seems like Google along with the handset makers and the carriers would want to make it as easy as possible for businesses to adopt these phones for their end users. Instead, the inability to control what apps are present on the phone is another point against Android in the enterprise.
As a user, what can you do about the carrier bloatware problem? You do have options, although nothing all that great at the moment. Here are a few things to consider:
- To start, go into your Manage Apps area and on the Running tab, stop any running process or service for these apps you don't use.
- You can use the Hide feature so at least you don't have to see unwanted apps. To do so, in the Apps tray, you can touch and hold an app icon until a menu appears; it will either give you the option to Uninstall or Hide (among others).
- There have been apps available that claim to let you remove or freeze any unwanted apps, although I don't have firsthand experience with any to recommend, and the ones I've researched all tend to have mixed results. Remember that even if you can remove an unwanted app, chances are good that your next system OS update will just reinstall it.
- You can root your Android phone to gain complete access and control over the OS, and thus the ability to remove any of these unwanted apps. Rooting has benefits that many people highly recommend, but it's not necessarily an option everyone will want to consider.
Of course, you can find more information about these options around the Internet, including YouTube videos.
There's a feature to look forward to in Android 4.0, the Ice Cream Sandwich release. Called a "kill switch" for apps, this feature lets you disable any app, regardless of where it's installed or who installed it. It's not quite the same as removing unwanted apps entirely, but it's a step in the right direction. Of course, my cynical side wonders if it's taking carriers so long to release ICS to current generation phones because they're trying to find a way around this OS-level control first.
When I started thinking about this bloatware problem, I wondered if the carriers might be on the road to class-action law suits. Because they're charging us for their data, and then forcing apps on us that eat into that data, it seems like a perfect case for serious legal action. But then I saw a CNET report yesterday that says the US Supreme Court seems to have decided consumers don't have the right to file class-actions suits against carriers because the carrier contracts say we can't. Score one for big business. You can take your carrier to small claims court or go to arbitration instead.
My previous smartphone, the original Droid by Motorola, didn't come with unremovable bloatware when I got it just over two years ago, which tells me this is a recent and growing problem. I know iPhone owners will be laughing at this Android issue they haven't had to deal with -- although it could still come to iPhones one day. Actually, it's a strength of the Android platform that you typically get many useful apps preinstalled (in addition to the junk). But if I don't want to sign up for Netflix, I should be able to delete the Netflix app and be done with it. (Netflix is the largest of the preinstalled apps, by the way, coming in at over 22MB.)
So you've got some really useful apps from the start. You've got a system that's highly customizable (unlike some other mobile OSs I could name). But the carriers are mucking it up with junky bloatware and taking away much of what has made Android so successful. Do they care? No, I'm sure they don't -- as long as their profits keep rolling in. Do you care? Let me know in the comments section below.
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A team of security researchers at the University of Michigan has used an open source network scanner called ZMap to search the Internet for servers still vulnerable to the "Heartbleed" exploit, which can be used to retrieve user names, passwords, and possibly even private encryption keys from servers that use the popular OpenSSL 1.0.1 cryptographic library. OpenSSL patched the vulnerability earlier this week, but hundreds of thousands of Web servers and other network-connected devices that use the affected libraries are still vulnerable.
ZMap, developed at the University of Michigan by Assistant Professor J. Alex Halderman and computer science graduate students Zakir Durumeric and Eric Wusterow, can perform a complete scan of the Internet's address space in less than 45 minutes if run on a machine with a gigabit network connection. Durumeric, Halderman, undergraduate computer science student David Adrian, and Research Associate Professor Michael Bailey configured a ZMap scan for the Heartbleed vulnerability, seeded with Alexa's list of the 1 million most popular domains on the Internet.
"As of 4:00 PM on April 9, 2014," the researchers reported in their results, "we found that 34 percent of the Alexa Top 1 Million websites support TLS. Of the websites that support HTTPS, 11 percent are vulnerable, 27 percent safely support the heartbeat extension, and 61 percent do not support the heartbeat extension (and are therefore safe). While we are still completing full scans of the Internet, initial results show that approximately 6% of all hosts that support HTTPS remain vulnerable. We will be updating these numbers as more scan results become available. We are not releasing full Internet-wide scans at this time."
The top domain vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug is Kaskus, an Indonesian social media site, which uses SSL-based connections for user-authenticated sessions. Also showing up in the report (at least as of yesterday) are some sites that may not use SSL in a way that exposes user credentials, such as cloud-based file sharing provider ZeoNet, which uses SSL and TLS to encrypt uploads. It does not use username and password authentication, though the contents of files being sent to service might be at risk through a Heartbleed attack. Twitter photo sharing service Twitpic.com uses OAuth tokens for authentication, not usernames, and is also vulnerable. And some sites that show up on the report may not use HTTPS for anything at all. (One such site, Clickey.com, doesn't properly authenticate itself over a secure connection.)
Perhaps the most attractive target for malicious hackers at the top of the list is Avazu Network, an online advertising network. And a large number of of e-commerce sites are still exposed, including a Russian Android phone store and a number of alternative Android app stores.


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Cliffhanger (UK - BD RB)
Our Scott McKenzie takes a look at this 1993 action movie on high definition BD
After the death of his best friend's partner high up in the Rockies, park ranger Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) disappears and returns a year later a shadow of the man he used to be. At the same time, a mid-air heist goes wrong and three cases fall into the mountains, containing a total of $100 million. Led by Eric Qualen (John Lithgow), the team of thieves trick Walker and his old best friend (Michael Rooker) into helping them find the money. Knowing they will be killed as soon as the bad guys get the money, the rangers are faced with a race to get there first and stop them before they can make their escape.
After Rocky V, Oscar and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Sylvester Stallone needed to get a hit movie under his belt at some point in the 90s. Going back to the action movies that he did (and still does) best, Cliffhanger was a hit at the box office and is still a very enjoyable movie fifteen years later. Filmed in Italy, the landscapes are more impressive than you might expect from an action movie and from a visual perspective, I'm sure you won't find many people who don't agree that this is Renny Harlin's best-looking movie, even with his use of some rather unnecessary slow motion at times.
Sylvester Stallone does what we expect of him—a little brooding, a few wisecracks but most of all lots of running, jumping and beating up bad guys. The only problem here is that other than John Lithgow, the bad guys are no more than your typical caricatures that Eric Qualen may well have ordered from a mail-order henchmen catalogue. Lithgow, on the other hand, hams it up with great abandon, no doubt over-compensating for the fact that Sly could wipe the floor with him with both hands tied behind his back. Only at the end do they square up to one another but the scene is over quickly enough so as to not expect the audience to believe that he has a chance of coming out on top.
One thing that has always bothered me is the fact that, while the external shots of the actors in the mountains look amazing, some supposedly external scenes are so obviously shot in a studio that it takes me out of the movie. I'll go into more detail about the video quality of this release further down, but the added detail allowed by Blu-ray does nothing to stop these scenes looking fake. That said, the great work that went into the external shots was worth it because some of the practical stunts are impressive and had this movie been made now, it would have been too easy to replace the effects with CGI.
Upon its initial release, the BBFC cut Cliffhanger by just over a minute to achieve a 15 certificate, but according to their website all cuts were waived when this version was re-submitted this year. I noticed that two of the fights were longer and more brutal so this is definitely worth looking at for completists in the UK who haven't sampled the uncut version. Overall, it may not make as much sense as it should, especially if you keep asking yourself how certain characters could get from one point to another in the mountains so quickly, but Cliffhanger has stood the test of time surprisingly well and is still worthy of your time after all these years.
Cliffhanger was released during an odd period now that we're revisiting movies from the 90s. We expect movies from the last few years to look amazing in high definition and we're a little more forgiving of movies made from the 80s and further into the past. However, movies from the 90s are still relatively fresh in the mind and it's always a shame when they don't look as perfect as we might expect. Cliffhanger is a good example of this. The picture is relatively clean but is not quite as bright as I'd hoped.
Also, the detail offered by a 1080p picture drew my attention to certain things that had gone unnoticed to me in the past. The blood used by the filmmakers looks incredibly fake, even orange at times, and some of the back-projection effects have a lost a little of the 'magic of cinema'. I noticed slight edge enhancement during a few scenes and the opening studio logos are a little wobbly but overall the detail in the picture is good and there is a distinct lack of damage to this fifteen-year-old picture.
There are two audio options available—Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS-HD MA 5.1, which I chose for this review. Even as the movie opens there is good use of the surround channels, with helicopter effects moving from speaker to speaker and events like this impress throughout the movie. Something that sets Cliffhanger apart from other action movies of the time is Trevor Jones' grand score, which sounds very good on this track. Gunshots, explosions and other effects are suitably powerful without drowning out the dialogue, which is clear and free from any obvious interference. This is generally quite a loud track so for that full action movie experience, sit back, crank up the volume and annoy the hell out of your neighbours.
This Blu-ray disc comes with a good selection of extras, but unfortunately it's the same selection of extras that appears on a number of previous DVD releases, so while there may not be any exclusives or new features, what's here is worth a look. First up we've got a commentary with (an edited together) Renny Harlin and Sylvester Stallone. The making of Cliffhanger was an arduous process and Renny Harlin has a lot to say about the problems they faced and the stunts the actors did themselves, like how Michael Rooker and Michelle Joyner got to the top of the peak in the opening sequence. Stallone is always a pleasure to listen to on audio commentaries and here he doesn't disappoint, offering anecdotes to lighten the mood of Harlin's more technical discussions.
There is an introduction to the movie, where Renny Harlin discusses the premise and the basics of making the film. It's five minutes long and is a good teaser, so it amazes me that the disc producers rarely ever set up these introductions to play before the movie itself. At twenty minutes long, the first 'Making of' featurette is the longest of the rest of the extras, showing behind the scenes footage of Stallone and Harlin preparing themselves for action scenes by checking the storyboards. There are also interviews with the cast, including some moments with Stallone in his Demolition Man gear. There is an additional 'Making of' featurette, but it's pretty much an edited version of the longer one so it's only worth watching if you've just got seven minutes in your life spare rather than twenty. An additional set of interviews offers the main actors and the director a chance to talk more about their characters and the stunts.
The deleted scenes come with an introduction by Renny Harlin, where he discusses the reasons for leaving them out of the final cut, which is mainly due to the fact that they make Stallone's character out to be more like a superhero than a regular guy. Another featurette shows us how certain effects shots were completed, including a behind the scenes look at the scale models used for the helicopter stunts. The storyboard comparisons show us three scenes from the film and the storyboards used to prepare for them at the same time. I found it interesting to see where the changes were made and how accurate certain shots are. The theatrical trailer is actually worth a watch because it contains shots from the deleted scenes, which shows that they weren't cut until late in the editing process. Finally we have a compilation of eight TV spots.
Cliffhanger is an exciting movie and most of the stunts still look good in this digital age. This release is well-timed, coming when Stallone is enjoying another career renaissance and there is talk of a follow-up to this movie. The quality of the presentation is slightly better than I was expecting and while the extras might not offer anything new, those of you with high definition capabilities who don't own the movie on DVD should think about picking up this release.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Scott McKenzie
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th August 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: N/A
Extras: Audio Commentary, Introduction by Renny Harlin, 'Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger', Additional Making Of Featurette, Interviews with the Cast and Crew, Deleted Scenes, Special Effects, Storyboard Comparisons, Theatrical Trailer, TV Spots
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner
Genre: Action
Length: 108 minutes
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2014 Academic Innovation Conference
Learning Communities in the Disciplines
Shippensburg University Conference Center, Shippensburg, PA
October 17, 2014
Scroll down to view the conference program/presentations and the post-conference monograph.
The focus of the third annual Academic Innovation Conference is the exchange of student and faculty success strategies within the context of academic programs and disciplines. This event is also designed to foster the development of faculty professional interest groups across multiple PASSHE universities. This one day conference is composed of a series of concurrent sessions highlighting the work of faculty and academic departments. Additionally, keynote speakers will provide insight into emerging national themes in higher education. This conference will be held at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, PA.
Program and Schedule of Presentations
The call for presentation proposals is now closed. Proposals were reviewed by the planning committee using a rubric. The program will include concurrent presentations in the following three areas:
1. Evolving Pedagogies in the Disciplines
This track focuses on new and innovative pedagogies and strategies, uniquely applied to specific academic disciplines, and which are designed to increase classroom engagement, learning outcomes, student retention and success, degree completion, and cost efficiency. Proposals in the following areas are encouraged: adaptive learning technology; open educational resources; mobile learning, devices, and aps. Proposals that demonstrate the use of assessment results from these pedagogies to improve learning, the curriculum, and support activities are especially encouraged.
2. Program Collaboration across PASSHE
This track focuses on program and discipline collaborations across multiple PASSHE universities, which are designed to increase student learning, retention, and success, support faculty research, scholarship, and professional development, and maximize resource utilization. Proposals with a clear assessment of such activities are especially encouraged.
3. New Approaches to Faculty Advising
This track focuses on new and innovative approaches to advising which are designed to enhance student success as well as improve completion rates for students. Inclusive university teams are encouraged to showcase their new student success advising models to include the assessment plan and measurable outcomes thus far.
Information for Presenters: Presenters will be allotted a total of 60 minutes for their concurrent session, and should plan for no more than 50 minutes of presentation, allowing 10 minutes for questions and answers. Each presentation room will ONLY be equipped with a projector, wireless internet, a long table at the front/side of the room for presentation materials, flip chart and markers, and chairs for the audience will be arranged theater style. Presenters are expected to bring their own presentation laptop (or other suitable device); presenters who plan to bring an Apple product as their presentation computer should also bring their own adapter. Presenters are expected to bring any additional materials that they may need to achieve the learning objectives of their presentation. Presentation handouts are not required; presenters who wish to provide handouts should plan to bring 35-40 copies as copy facilities will not be available at the Conference Center. Presenters will have the opportunity to contribute their presentation slides (and/or other materials) for posting on the conference website. You will receive information about this opportunity as we get closer to the conference.
Post-Conference Monograph
The following presentation materials and papers were submitted by presenters for posting on this website:
- Advantages of Freshmen Learning Communities
- Collaboration on Cybersecurity Program between California University and Shippensburg University
- Demonstration of a Business Case of Workplace Bullying Across Three Academic Disciplines
- Making It Work: Two Universities, One Program, Successful Outcomes
- Using Technology to Enhance Student Learning in Online Courses: Lecture Videos and Poll Everywhere (Poll Ev) – Slides and Handouts
Registration Information
Seats are limited and available on a first-come basis ... so register early! Registration ends on October 14, 2014 (or earlier if seats have been filled prior to Oct 14).
Registration Fee: $100 (includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon breaks, and conference materials).
WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A PROBLEM WITH THE CREDIT CARD PAYMENT GATEWAY. IF YOU WISH TO PAY WITH A CREDIT CARD, CALL CJ EZELL AT 717-477-1123 extension 3381 FOR ASSISTANCE.
To register, go to http://register.ship.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=PCD8061460
Location, Driving Directions, Parking, and Campus Map
This event will be held at the Shippensburg University Conference Center. For GPS or other mapping software, use the address 500 Newburg Road, Shippensburg, PA 17257. CLICK HERE for driving directions to the Conference Center (be sure to following directions to the Conference Center, not to Shippensburg University). The Conference Center is building #49 on the Shippensburg campus map. There is ample parking in front of the Conference Center, and parking permits/passes/stickers are not needed.
Lodging Information
CLICK HERE for a list of lodging options in the Shippensburg area.
Conference Sponsors
This event is co-sponsored by Shippensburg University and PASSHE's Office of the Chancellor.
Conference Planning Committee
- Aaron Dobbs, Assistant Professor, Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian, Shippensburg University
- CJ Ezell, WEDnetPA Partner, Office of Professional, Continuing, and Distance Education, Shippensburg University
- Debbie Gochenaur, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Shippensburg University
- Daniel Harris, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences, California University
- Kathleen Howley, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic and Student Affairs, PASSHE Office of the Chancellor
- Emily Kramer, Assistant Professor, Biology, Shippensburg University
- Charlene Lane, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Gerontology, Shippensburg University
- Sabrina Marschall, Director of the Learning Center, Assistant Professor, Shippensburg University
- Amanda Olejarski, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Shippensburg University
- Christina Sax, Associate Provost and Dean of Academic Outreach and Innovation, Shippensburg University
- Dana Schneider, Assistant Professor, Psychology, California University
- Matthew Shupp, Assistant Professor, Counseling and College Student Personnel, Shippensburg University
- Kimberly Vanderlaan, Assistant Professor, English, California University
Questions and Additional Information
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If you're 13 years old, live in Wilmington, Ind., and it's cold outside, it surely makes you wonder about this global warming thing.
How can there be global warming when your personal globe is freezing?
How can you find out whether all this scientific mumbo-jumbo is just a giant gumbo of mumbling nonsense?
You do it the old-fashioned way: You go to the library.
Once you've found the evidence, you call Rush Limbaugh and tell him. This is extreme wisdom, as Limbaugh has -- at least in the past -- been very skillful at raising issues and then tossing them into the ring like a fine WWE performer.
Naturally, Limbaugh was pleased to hear from such an "articulate" young man, especially one who articulated a view with which the great Republican has sympathy.
He seemed, though, perturbed that the boy's mother had only downloaded one article from a computer. For the rest, the boy had been forced to comb his local library's perhaps dusty shelves.
I am grateful to The Hill for directing me to this tale of scientific discovery without the use of technology.
As Limbaugh himself put it, when talking with Alex: "I am surprised you find evidence of this at a library. That is heartening."
However, all intellectuals who are swimming against the tide surely could use a little technological help. So Limbaugh decided he would send Alex an iPad.
"If there is anybody who would put one of those things to good use, that would be you, and it is light, it is portable, you can take it anywhere you want to go," he told Alex.
Oddly, though, this was after Alex had explained that evidence of the man-made global warming "hoax" wasn't hard to find.
Alex revealed: "It was really easy for me to find this evidence, really easy. I believe the reason that the liberals do not have the evidence is because they do not want the evidence; they do not want to hear that it is wrong."
Now, though, Alex may not even need to go to the library. He can use his iPad night and day to find more evidence. He can write about it on his magical new machine and publish his findings from his own bedroom.
Personally, I hope that Alex is right.
As humans, we're being asked to bear too much guilt for everything that is wrong with the world.
We're being asked to feel responsible because it is we who kill people, not guns. We're being made to feel guilty about every morsel of food that we place into our mouths.
And now the fact that the world might explode is supposed to be our fault too.
If the iPad can help us catch a break, there will surely be a quantitative easing in our souls.
I look forward to hearing more of Alex's research as his iPad allows him to flit across the digital firmament in search of more psychological relief for humanity.


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