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Foley, Osten get testy over layoffs at Sprague press conference
Sprague — At times talking over each other, gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley and state Sen. Cathy Osten took part in a heated exchange during a press conference Tuesday that Foley had called to highlight what he called Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's "anti-business" policies.
Fusion Paperboard announced last week that it was closing and laying off 145 workers, just one year after the state awarded the company a $3 million loan to upgrade its paper machine. Foley said at the press conference, held next door to Fusion, that the announced closure signals larger economic problems in the state.
Osten, who is also Sprague's first selectwoman, and union employees called Foley's message "sound bites" and asked where he had been all this time.
"Unlike you, I have actually talked to the company," Osten said. "I have actually been here. I was here within 10 minutes from the announcement here. I wasn't here a week and a half later to have a press conference with people. I actually care about what happens in eastern Connecticut. We waited an hour for you to come here for a press conference in front of a company that is not even Fusion. Fusion is up there. This is Caraustar."
The state's Department of Economic and Community Development has said that the company must pay back the loan with a penalty fee because it did not maintain operations for the 10 years that the contract specified.
Foley said that if he had been elected governor during the 2010 gubernatorial election against Malloy, this wouldn't have happened.
"If you have a more friendly business environment, if you have a governor and leader of the economy whose No. 1 priority is to restore economic growth and jobs in the state, then you don't have to bribe companies to stay here," Foley said.
During Malloy's term, Connecticut has faced the largest tax increase in history, and employers have watched anti-business policies such as paid sick leave enacted, he said. These policies slow the economy and drive businesses out of Connecticut, Foley said.
Fusion Paperboard is owned by OpenGate Capital, a global investment firm. Joel Laroche, chief operating officer of Fusion Paperboard, said last week that the operation could no longer be sustained. The company produces high-performance coated, recycled boxboard, folding cartons and packaging for North American food and consumer product manufacturers, according to its website.
The company in March signed a six-year contract with the United Steelworkers union.
Osten said OpenGate Capital made the decision to close the plant down to make money as an international investment firm rather than save the jobs in Sprague. The company also sold the paper machine to PaperWorks in Indiana, which is a competitor, she said. PaperWorks took possession of the equipment in order to "decrease the size of the market," she said.
Foley said that Osten was blaming everyone but herself.
"You have failed at your effort to keep these jobs here, haven't you?" he said. "You have failed, and Gov. Malloy has failed along with you, and you have wasted taxpayers' money."
Shannon Haddad, human resources manager for Fusion Paperboard, told Foley that his "political points" might work at another company, but not here.
"I hope that this is done soon," Haddad said. "We are running production. We have employees who are peeking over the fence, and there is a lot of talking about what is going on here. There is going to be a lot of speculation. ... If you could take this somewhere else, it would probably help us all get back to work."
Foley also told union workers and Fusion Paperboard Logistics Director Michael D'Auria that they were blaming people hundreds of thousands of miles away.
"Listen, you have failed because you lost these jobs," Foley said.
D'Auria responded, "These guys work their butts off. Every single day I watch them work, work, work. … We did not cause this, as she said. The market drove this business into this position."
Rich Harrelle, president of Local 1840 of the United Steelworkers union, questioned Foley's own business practices when his company acquired Bibb Co., a textile manufacturer, as Connecticut Democratic spokesman Devon Puglia did last week.
"Tom Foley's company made millions of dollars while hundreds of honest, hardworking, middle class workers were laid off," Puglia said in an email. "I wonder what the people in Bibb, Ga., think of Foley's new-found compassion for the average working person. He has zero credibility."
Foley said he wasn't surprised by the remarks from people at his press conference.
D'Auria said he didn't like it that the press conference was bringing people into the discussion.
"I didn't invite you or these people here," Foley said.
D'Auria said, "Understood, but we didn't invite you, either. But we are here and want to hear what you have to offer."
Foley responded by saying he wouldn't have instituted anti-business policies such as mandating paid sick leave, raising energy costs, raising taxes and sending negative signals to the business community.
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Losing YES channel has Yank fans crying, 'Oh, no!'
For 61-year-old physician Vijay Sikand of East Lyme, who has been following the Yankees since the days of Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, Tuesday was going to be highlighted by a relaxing night watching his favorite team on television.
But when he clicked onto the YES sports channel through his MetroCast cable service, all he saw was a blank screen and a line of type streaming across the top indicating that the channel had gone dark. The message on the television guide portion of the screen indicated that MetroCast and the YES Network, owned by Fox Television, could not reach an agreement on programming terms and that YES had therefore stopped sending its signal to the cable provider.
"There hasn't been a single warning of any kind to any customer that I'm aware of," Sikand said Wednesday. "As an avid Yankee fan, I was shocked, surprised and disappointed."
MetroCast, whose coverage area also includes Montville, New London, Waterford, Jewett City and Griswold, acknowledged that its contract with the YES Network expired at midnight Monday. The company, which said it could not reveal the percentage increase sought by YES, added that "the cost of the network was a major factor in the matter."
MetroCast spokesman Andrew Walton said there are no active discussions with YES to resume offering the channel to subscribers. He added that Service Electric Cable TV Inc., a family-owned cable service covering parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, also was unable to come to terms with the YES Network.
Pennsylvania-based MetroCast, which is part of the National Cable Television Consortium, reached an agreement with another key programming provider, Viacom, at the 11th hour, but Walton said the company was unable to come to terms with YES.
"Sports channels account for a very large percentage of the fees paid by cable and satellite companies - by some estimates up to half of the total programming cost," Walton said in an email.
He added in a phone interview that the fees are expected to increase substantially in the years ahead, thanks largely to pricey contracts between networks and professional and collegiate sports leagues.
An article last year in The Wall Street Journal indicated that sports channels as a whole account for 20 percent of the cost of a typical cable or satellite bill. That's nearly $15 a month on a TV bill that last year averaged about $73.44 per household, according to The Journal.
The draw of sports programming is the fact that 97 percent of viewers watch the shows in real time, so advertisements are more likely to be seen. By contrast, other programming is seen in real time - rather than later on DVD recorders - by only three-quarters of households.
Yet the audience for sports is small, said Walton, and MetroCast must weigh whether satisfying 4 percent of viewers is worth the cost that would have to be borne largely by those not interested in watching. He added that the company began notifying customers last week through its website and through social media when it seemed likely that an agreement with YES would not be reached. More information was extended to customers through the same methods and with the help of MetroCast's customer service team after the network went dark.
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"Dropping YES hits a raw nerve," he said.
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Facebook officially has 1 billion active users, the company's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning. That number is equal to roughly one-seventh of the entire human population.
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This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.
If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.
The 1 billion milestone came at 12:45 p.m. PT, on September 14, according to a fact sheet [DOC] that Facebook released this morning. The company also unveiled some additional stats that help put the social network's monster growth in perspective: 1.13 trillion Likes, 1040.3 billion friend connections, 219 billion photos uploaded, 17 billion location-tagged posts, 62.6 million songs played 22 billion times.
Facebook says that the median age of users had dropped from 26 in 2008, when the company first hit 100 million users (one tenth the number it has now, four years later), to 22-years-old today.
The United States, Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico have more people on Facebook than any other countries today. Among the 1 billion active users, 600 million access Facebook through a mobile device, according to the company.
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While Zuckerberg says that he is thankful for having the "honor" of "serving" us, the truth is that we are the ones who have served Facebook. Despite its woes on Wall Street, Facebook is currently worth about $46.77 billion, as of Wednesday's market closing. Mark Zuckerberg alone is currently worth just under $11 billion. He is 28-years-old.
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PLYMOUTH — What's changed in the last 100 years at the library? The resounding answer is "technology."
Plymouth Public Library is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and director Susie Reinholt along with long-time librarians Debbie Beck and Linda Hindman recently gathered to share some thoughts about the future of the library.
Though all agreed that they can't see a time when books are obsolete, the three women said that people's needs for the library have changed significantly as technology advances.
"Our first computer (at the library) was an Apple II with a black screen and gold lettering," recalled Hindman. "There were about two people who knew how to use the internet. They would come in and we would watch them and wonder what they were doing."
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Library staff is dedicated to help patrons learn how to check out electronic books. They are currently teaching themselves how to use several popular e-readers like the Kindle Fire, iPad, and Sony Reader. Hindman has even created "cheat sheets" to hand out to patrons.
"I still hear so many people say, 'I like to hold a book in my hands,'" said Reinholt.
Beck said that she feels the next technology change at the library will involve streaming movies instead of DVD rentals.
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In May 1985, after a long stand-off, police dropped a satchel full of explosives on top of a row house in Philadelphia.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: All the men came down?
MICHAEL MOSES WARD: That's when the big bomb went off.
WARD: The ship threw our house up.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Lisa, there has just been a huge explosion here. We don't know what it means, but it just shook the whole place. Debris flew all over the place. I don't know what that explosion was. All I can tell you is that it was a huge blast.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Get a shot with me. Get a - Harvey, can you hear us?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: At this point, I really can't tell you very much. There was about a 15-second delay, then the explosion.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Perhaps the most frightening thing here is that police do say that six to eight children are believed to be inside the MOVE house.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: As soon as we find out what the explosion is, we will try to tell you. At this point, I simply do not know.
CONAN: The MOVE house on Osage Avenue was were confrontation with police stretched out over hours and days, thousands of rounds of ammunition were fired. Eventually, 11 people died.
In a new documentary, "Let the Fire Burn," Jason - director Jason Osder uses archival footage to retell the story of MOVE, its relationship with the Philadelphia police and that stand-off. The film played in the Best of the Fest yesterday showing at the AFIDOCS Festival just outside of Washington. Jason Osder joins us here in Studio 42. Thanks very much for coming in today.
JASON OSDER: Thank you.
CONAN: What drew you to this moment in history?
OSDER: Yeah, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I was growing up in Philadelphia at the time, and I was, you know, five children and six adults were killed in the fire, and I was roughly the age of some of the children, and I think combination of just how shocking the events were, but also the timing in my life that I was roughly that age. And also that, you know, I think those of us that are lucky to have, sort of, traditional childhoods, we grow up sheltered in a certain way. And for most people, there's a moment where that shelter is broken. And my parents' generation will always remember where they were when JFK died, but for me, it was the MOVE fire. And again, being a child, I think I lacked the context and the frames that adults might put on it. And to me, I was just really frightened.
CONAN: Almost 30 years later, it seems impossible that the police department drop a bomb on its own city.
OSDER: Yeah. I mean, I think, for me, making the film and thinking about what it means, that's sort of the most essential question that the story provokes, is sort of how does the unthinkable come to be reality? And I tried to really draw that out in terms of the moral in the film.
CONAN: Even more unthinkable is the question raised by the title of the movie. We see the mayor, Wilson Goode, saying a decision was made to let the fire burn.
OSDER: Yeah, that's right. And I think it's a very complex story and in a certain point, I think that events on the police side become driven by fear mostly. There's a previous confrontation where a police officer is shot eight years previous, and there's still a lot of overlap on the force with individuals that remember that. And the group has constructed a very intimidating structure on their roof that becomes known as the bunker, and it's fortified, and it has holes to shoot out of, and they have high ground on the block. And the police come to believe, I think, come to feel that they are in real danger.
CONAN: And that is only after their initial tactics failed. These were improvisations.
OSDER: Yeah. I think in the days leading up to the confrontation, one of the things you see as a reluctance on the part of the police organization for people higher up in the organization to participate in the planning because, you know, there will be possible deniability. So then, as things go bad, it becomes more and more haphazard and truly spirals out of control.
CONAN: There are miscalculations on the other side too. This is a group that had its intentions, but one of the things it was doing was deliberately provoking the people in that neighborhood so to force the police department to make a decision.
OSDER: Yeah. I think that's accurate, and it's difficult to know at the end of the day how far they wanted to take things. I think that there's a certain point of view that says, in fact, they wanted to provoke the action of the police and show the true nature of the system as they came over the top. Did they expect them to come over the top just that violently? Did they intend to die in the house? I don't know the answer to that. It's not impossible that, in fact, they did.
CONAN: And they certainly provoked the neighborhood.
OSDER: Absolutely. That was one of their tactics. After the initial incident in 1978, there were nine members of the group imprisoned. And when they regrouped, they were advocating on behalf of those people, and their technique to advocate was that if they riled the neighborhood up that - they wouldn't get attention on their own, but if they drew the neighborhood into the conflict, the neighbors would bring the attention of the authorities. And it still took a long time and a lot of aggravation on the part of those neighbors. But again, in fact, they did force the city's hand to act.
CONAN: And what did you come to understand about the nature of this group? And just going back remembering, at the time, they were sometimes characterized as a radical black organization, sort of the spinoff of the Black Panthers. And we did see pictures of them holding weapons at various points. They were portrayed as a back-to-nature group that fed the children only raw vegetables. They were also portrayed as a religious cult.
OSDER: Yeah. And I think there's a lot of things in play, and there are some patterns that we're familiar with and we can apply and some things that are unique and different. I think, for one thing, it did change over time. Back to nature seemed a fairly apt description in the early '70s when they started, but things became gradually more militant. I think the connections to actual black power movements are tenuous at best. I think that the sort of symbology of some those movements and the imagery of black men holding guns, for instance, was...
CONAN: And women.
OSDER: And women, that's right. I think that imagery was used by the group to, again, provoke an action whereas their intentions were different than a black liberation group. And in fact, pretty much all of those descriptions the group would reject. They would reject back to nature as well as black liberation. So ultimately - but - so I think some of these things apply.
But then at the end of the day, especially since I made the film and I wanted to really bring in the point of view of Michael Ward, the only child who survived, and again, myself being a child at the time, there was also the sense that they were a family. And when you hear it from a child's point of view, you know, as different as they were, sometimes they were the same in the sense in which they had these religious or quasi-religious beliefs, raw food.
But the children always had to eat raw food, whereas the adult, not always. And to me, that doesn't sound that different in the way a lot of Americans take their religion. And when Michael Ward says in the film, you know, they didn't believe in spankings, they didn't hit us, but they would yell at us. And I just asked, well, did you cry when they yelled at you? And he said, yeah, we cried when they yelled at us.
So in some ways, I wanted to keep intact that if you were, you know, regular is what you grow up with. And if you grow up in it, the rules were just the rules. And so yeah, they were all the things we talked about, but they're also a family.
CONAN: I was intrigued by the choice you made to use only archival footage in this picture. We see a lot of local television coverage. We see a lot of footage from the deposition of that young man you were just talking about, and we see a lot of footage from a hearing that was held about, what, five months after the incident to try to find out what happened, what went wrong, how all these miscalculations ended up in tragedy.
OSDER: Yeah. I mean, I have to give credit to the editor of the film named Nels Bangerter, who's a very talented documentary film editor. And what he helped me realize when he came on to the project - I've been researching in a very long time. I had shot some interviews and intended to use them.
But there was a combination of realizing that in those hearings, we had tremendous potential to do something different and unique and that, in fact, the things that you want to do with the documentary interview were not that strong in the interviews we'd shot. They weren't that revealing. People hadn't learned a whole lot. They hadn't changed a whole lot.
CONAN: Did you get a chance to talk with Mayor Goode or former Mayor Goode?
OSDER: Mayor Goode is the one interview that I wanted and I had not gotten at the time that we decided to go to another direction. But I did interview Michael Ward, which is big, exclusive as an adult as well as Ramona Africa and James Berghaier, the - one of the police that you meet in the film and...
CONAN: About the only person who comes off, really, as a hero.
OSDER: Yes. There is the feeling that James Berghaier is one police officer who is on the scene and sees the situation for what it is, which is children in peril whereas I imagine a lot of the other police officers sort of rooted in their boots.
CONAN: I wanted to talk about that moment. There's - we talked about that hearing, the commission where MOVE members of police, local government officials testify about the incident. And here's the Reverend Paul Washington asking police officers what they thought was going on when children left the house, then with - facing the possibility of - not the possibility, the actuality of a maelstrom of a terrible fire behind them, decided to go back inside.
REVEREND PAUL WASHINGTON: Just as a human being myself, I'm just trying to imagine myself in that situation, and behind me, there's a raging inferno, and in front of me, there are people who are saying come on out. I'm trying to imagine what would cause me to turn back and run into the fire.
CONAN: A question - one of the many questions in the film, that's never answered.
OSDER: Yeah. What happens at the culmination of the film in the back alley while the house is still on fire is sort of one of the great mysteries of the story for those who follow it, and we tried to leave things in the film with implications open. It's a little bit of Rashomon moment.
And, yeah, I think people should watch and judge themselves who's telling the truth and who's lying and what might have really happened in that back alley.
CONAN: Jason Osder's new documentary is called "Let the Fire Burn." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And I have to say, you said, a lot of the people you spoke with years later had not learned. There is an aspect of this that suggests we didn't learn either because you look at this and you say, oh, my God, Waco.
OSDER: Yeah. I am - it's a difficult story. And I think that in one sense it falls under the category of we might not have learned and we don't even know. And one of the things as I grew older that was disturbing to me is as I, you know, left the Philadelphia area and grew up a little bit, met my peers from other parts of the country, just how unfamiliar people were - of the story. And that goes on certainly with younger people as well. And I teach college now. And, you know, for the most part, people have not heard of it.
So, yeah, I think the beginning of, you know, it may be a cliche but you can only, you know, we need to learn our history so that we don't repeat it. And I think even in the baseline level, it needs to be part of American history to learn from it and see the parallels.
CONAN: We see in that hearing, a black politician saying he thought this was primarily a racial issue. And then he went to meet with people in the neighborhood, the people who are complaining about the MOVE house and what their tactics were, and said to his surprise, this were ordinarily - ordinary, working class, African-American people, that this wasn't a racial issue yet it is impossible to divorce it from raise.
OSDER: Yeah. I guess what I would say is that I would always argue on the side of complexity. It is absolutely a story about race in America, yet it is not only a story about race in America. And I think, sort of, the ultimate moral lesson to me about how does the unthinkable come to happen is it is truly any time that we look upon a fellow human and see, not a fellow human, but a label. And I think what begins to become very interesting about the story is that the assumption is that label is black but, in fact, it's different than that. And that label is sort of this one unique label that only existed for a moment in Philadelphia, called MOVE.
And - but, in fact, the lesson is that that label could be absolutely anything. It could be race, or gender, or orientation. But the answer to the question - I don't want to say unthinkable. I mean, they let the fire burn and there were children in the house. And the beginning of that is when we don't see another human being.
CONAN: And "Let the Fire Burn -" the idea was to destroy that bunker you talked about on the roof of the house, yet they were willing to let the fire burn and kill everyone else inside.
OSDER: Kill everyone in the house including children, and destroy 61 homes, 61 families lost their homes. And we do have to come back to the issue of race because they were predominantly, or actually, I believe, exclusively black families.
CONAN: And one of the updates is that, yes, houses were built for all of those people by the city, yet the construction was so shoddy, they are hard to be torn down.
OSDER: That's correct. And there was actually a lawsuit and charges of kickbacks to the contractor and ultimately indictments about that as well. It was truly an ongoing disaster for decades.
CONAN: And indictment for that yet no charges filed.
OSDER: Yeah. I mean, one of the ironies is that there are exactly two people to serve time over this incident, both were African-American. One is Ramona Africa, who is in the house, is convicted of conspiracy to commit riot; and the other is, in fact, the African-American contractor who's hired by the city to rebuild the homes, which are, ultimately, condemned.
CONAN: And there is one figure in the film who - well, an important role, but relatively minor, to his later political career, Ed Rendell, then the district attorney, later the governor of state of Pennsylvania.
OSDER: Yes. I think that's right. For the most part, the people you see have faded away there immediately or a little while later. But you do see an early chapter of Ed Rendell's life. And I haven't heard from Mr. Rendell but I'll be interested if he's the film and what he thinks.
CONAN: It's interesting. He is as always blunt spoken.
OSDER: Yeah. And, I mean, in my opinion in the film, he comes off certainly not as bad as many other people in the film. And, in fact, the things that you hear him saying are - he does represent a certain rationality, even if he still winds up sort of on the side that perpetuates the atrocities in a lot of ways.
CONAN: And did not necessarily take responsibility for that.
OSDER: No. He does not necessarily take responsibility. That's true.
CONAN: Neither does any - there's this terrible moment where people say I - the mayor says, I issued an order to put out the fire. And the head of the police department says, well, wait a minute, did I get - well, he's very vague on whether he got the order. And the fire chief says, I never got that order.
OSDER: Yeah. In the - there are some great sort of academic literature on the issue in communications area, and they would call that a breach, right, when communication broke down and whatever system is supposed to be working - stopped working and communication stopped. And I think that's an interesting way to look at it.
The fire chief ultimately is the only person who - it doesn't appear in the film, but he eventually a press conference breaks down and apologizes in sort of an emotional way. He says it was all my fault. Everyone else issues, at best, half apologies.
CONAN: "Let the Fire Burn" is the name of the documentary. Jason Osder is its director and playing at the AFI Docs Best of Fest on Monday. The film is an account of the incident that led up to during the 1985 standoff between MOVE and Philadelphia authorities. Jason Osder joins us here in Studio 42. Thank you very much for your time today.
OSDER: Thank you.
CONAN: Tomorrow, we expect the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, Prop 8 and DOMA. Join us for that. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
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Well that was fast. After updating its terms of service and privacy policy, enduring some incredible user wrath, issuing an apology and promising to – again – update its ToS, Instagram has gone and done just that. A representative has told us that CEO Kevin Systrom published yet another post explaining Instagram's new policies.
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Apparently, the uproar worked – at least partially. After Instagram was vilified all week for its first mention of a marketing strategy and the potential to turn our images into some sort of advertising means, it's backtracking and returning us to the good old advertising terms, which have always stated:
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Instagram is again reiterating that it "has no intentions" to sell our photos and that we are the sole owners of that content. However, while the advertising section of Instagram's policy now reads the same, the new ToS and privacy policy are still being updated. These will go into effect on January 19.
Regardless of how much of the update is being changed to fit demands, this is a fairly big victory for users. A beloved product tried to pull a switch-up, we yelled, kicked, and screamed, and it changed course completely – and fast.
Systrom also acknowledges the violent reaction so many had to the announcement earlier in the week: "I'm proud that Instagram has a community that feels so strongly about a product we all love. I'm even more proud that you feel empowered to be vocal and approach us with constructive feedback to help us build a better product. Thank you for your feedback, and I look forward to all that Instagram has to bring into the New Year."
Still, don't expect things to stay the same forever. Instagram remains a Facebook property now, and a very valuable one. Monetization is unavoidable, though now it appears it may not be so brazenly instituted. Baby steps, Instagram. The more passionate the community, the more you have to spoon feed it changes.
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In an effort to explain the many different positions we have in the field, I've asked a Transportation Security Inspector (TSI) from Cincinnati to talk a little about his position.
Jim is from the Aviation side of Inspections, so keep in mind that TSA has a cadre of inspectors in the field. We'll highlight their jobs in the future as well.
Now, the next time you see the folks in the fancy "TSA Inspector" jackets, you'll know what they do. ~ Bob
When most people think about TSA, the dedicated men and women performing the duties of the Transportation Security Officer (TSO) come to mind; and why not? It is by far the most visible public component of TSA and usually the first thing we see as we approach the checkpoint. Much like the many layers that make up TSA's security "system of systems", other components of TSA are tasked with duties not so visible to the traveling public, but are just as fundamental to securing our nation's transport systems. Today I will discuss one of those components…TSA's Transportation Security Inspectors, or TSIs.
As with most things governmental, regulations abound! Especially with respect to airline operations, airport operations and the wide variety of security programs that these entities adopt and implement. That's where the TSI comes in. I'm an aviation inspector, so I'll refrain from commentary on the cargo inspection program or the surface (rail and mass transit) inspection program. The duties and responsibilities of a TSI are quite varied due in no small part to an industry that can be complex, market driven, evolving and critical to our nation's economy. Bear with me as I reach deep into my mind-numbing facts hat and reference the actual regulations that drive what TSIs actually inspect. Our beloved Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) has many titles and parts, but for the aviation TSI, it's all about 49 CFR part 1500 and the relevant subchapters. Within that body of work, those who find themselves regulated by TSA will know what is expected of them as well as what can be expected from us. If you find yourself unable to sleep on a given night, look them up on the web at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ under the executive resources portion.
So, what does it all mean? TSIs in the field conduct comprehensive inspections, assessments and investigations of regulated entities to determine how well they comply with the regulations as well as identifying areas of weakness that need to be fixed. Exactly how is it done? Well, TSIs will use a variety of methods to determine compliance which may include surveillance, interview, document review and/or testing. But it doesn't end there. Those findings are archived so we can get a snapshot of trouble areas that are common and adjust our security priorities to meet those needs.
In addition to our normal inspection workload, TSIs conduct investigations into alleged violations of security regulations at the screening checkpoint. Normally this would be the result of a person attempting to bring something prohibited through the screening checkpoint – things like guns, explosives and incendiaries. On occasion, and it doesn't happen all too often, someone will cause a fracas at the checkpoint that rises to level of interference with the screening process. When that happens, the TSI will investigate the circumstances surrounding the alleged violation and determine what enforcement action is appropriate. An enforcement action may be administrative in nature (warning notice), or result in a monetary fine (civil penalty). However, if the investigation demonstrates that no violation occurred, the matter will be closed with no action and a letter advising the person of that determination will be mailed out. I could go on and on regarding enforcement actions because those can be thorny and it doesn't simply end with a fine because the TSI recommends it. There is a process and I will defer to our legal team regarding the steps that it entails.
Lastly, TSIs conduct outreach activity with our industry partners and local/Federal agencies in order to foster that open relationship and share information critical to our mutual success. There is more to a TSI's job than what I have written about today, but my post is getting long so I'll wrap it up. Perhaps I can post another time with some more riveting TSI tidings. Until then, travel safe and thanks for checking out our blog!
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On July 1st, 2015, SGT Adam Keys regained much of his independence when he received his smart home in Annapolis, MD, fully equipped with features that will give him the freedom to do things for himself that many of us take for granted.
SGT Adam Keys was injured 5 years ago during a tour in Afghanistan when a roadside blast rocked the armored vehicle that he was riding in with four others - Adam lost both of his legs and his left hand in the aftermath.
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jacob_burman wrote:Souf Centrol wrote:I just hate the WWE state of mind that you have to be built and/or huge to be a star in wwe. The small guys always get over looked, no matter how great thier talent is
I agree and disagree, as I see both sides to the coin. The smaller guys that can work, they should be getting pushed and given the titles. However, wrestling is a business. It's the whole larger than life aspect. Wrestling is fake, but in the same mindset, as a fan, you have to believe a guy can really beat the other guy up. A 180 pound guy defeating a 250 pound guy for the World Heavyweight Title must likely won't happen many times. Plus, the guys that are big and huge, those are the guys kids want to grow up and be like. They want to wear their shirts and cheer them on. That creates money for the company. A smaller guy, he looks average, nothing really special about him, it's going to be hard selling that guy to the average person. I guess that is why I like the Indys and a company like WWE. The Indys give my fill of pure wrestling and WWE entertains me with some of their storylines and gimmicks.
Im sorry man, but your argument drives me crazy. Wrestling is about story telling, and suspending disbelief. 60 year old Ric Flair can beat 30 year old Carlito and that is believable? In real life, no one would ever bet on a 60 year old man vs a 30 year old. But its wrestling so the 60 year olds experience and cheating becomes his weapon.
Its a circular logic to say that people want to see only big dudes. Being 6ft tall with body builder physiques is what most WWE employees are. Guys like Batista and Cena are absolute monsters and in composition make guys like CM punk who is 6 ft and 220 look small. How many 6ft 220 pound dudes do you know? I dont know many in that kind of shape. When those are practically the only guy hired and promoted it creates its own demand, and sets the expectations. If the mainstream promotes smaller guys as contenders, they they will be contenders.
I dont mean to flame you or anything, I just, respectfully, 100% disagree with you.


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When Is An Optimization More Than Just An Optimization?
While I've been discussing immutable values these past few weeks, I've noticed an article about Haskell. Haskell is a language that carries the notion of immutable data to extremes, which makes it worth mentioning in the context of the current discussion.
One of the more interesting aspects of programming with immutable data is that if your data are truly immutable, then there is never any need to call a function more than once with the same arguments. All you have to do is remember what the result was the last time you called that function with the same arguments, and you can avoid repeating that computation. This optimization is sometimes called memoization, spelled (and pronounced) without an r.
For example, consider a function that computes factorials:
unsigned fact(unsigned n) { if (n == 0) return 1; return n * fact(n-1); }
We have seen in a previous article that we can rewrite this code to change its recursion into a tail recursion, which the compiler can then rewrite as iteration:
unsigned fact_aux(unsigned f, unsigned n) { if (n == 0) return f; return fact_aux(n * f, n – 1); } unsigned fact(unsigned n) { return fact_aux(1, n); }
fact_aux calls itself as the very last thing it does, a smart compiler will avoid the recursive call by rewriting that call into a jump to the beginning of the function's code.
If we memoize our fact function, it doesn't gain anything the first time we call it. However, suppose we call
fact(5). When that computation has completed, we will have stored not only the value of
fact(5) but also the values of
fact(4), fact(3), and so on. A subsequent call of
fact(n) will avoid any multiplication so long as
n < 6. In fact, even calling
fact(7) will avoid most of the computation, and will store
fact(6) and
fact(7) for future reference.
So far, this optimization seems like no big deal. However, consider the following function to compute the nth Fibonacci number:
unsigned fib(unsigned n) { if (n < 2) return 1; return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2); }
For starters, note that it is not obvious how to rewrite this function to use tail recursion, because the + inside the
return statement is executed after both recursive calls. Note too that the execution time for this function is at least proportional to its result! To see this, observe that the execution time for the
return statement must be at least the sum of the execution times for
fib(n-1) and
fib(n-2) unless
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fib's value, so the execution time itself must mirror that value.
fib? It should not be hard to see that the execution time now decreases from
O(fib(n)) to
O(n) the first time we call
fib(n), and to
O(1) on all subsequent calls. This is an enormous improvement.
Memoization is one kind of lazy evaluation, a phrase that refers to the notion of evaluating only enough of an expression to determine its value. The kind of short-circuit evaluation that C++ does on the built-in &&, ||, and ?: operators is an example of lazy evaluation.
The Haskell article that I mentioned at the beginning of this one gives the following example:
let a = [2, 4..100] let b = drop 5 a
as an example of how to generate a list with all but the first five even numbers between 2 and 100. What the article doesn't mention is that Haskell does not actually evaluate the elements of either
a or
b until the program does something that needs the values of those elements. This use of lazy evaluation sometimes allows remarkable simplifications in how programmers express problems.
For example, consider a problem that Edsger Dijkstra attributed to Richard Hamming many years ago: Write a program to produce, in increasing order, a sequence of positive integers that have no prime factors other than 2, 3, or 5. The first such integer is 1, of course; the next two are 2 and 3. Then we have 4, which is 2 * 2, then 5, then 6. We skip 7, which has 7 as a factor, then include 8, 9, and 10. And so on.
This sequence of values is unbounded — there is no a priori limit on how many elements it has. Nevertheless, because Haskell is based on lazy evaluation, we can solve this problem as follows. I'm sure that if I'm mistaken about the tiny little bit of Haskell I know, someone will correct me:
seq = 1 : merge (scale 2 seq (merge (scale 3 seq) (scale 5 seq)))
Here, instead of defining a recursive function, we are defining recursive data: The name
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To make this description clearer, here's the definition of scale:
scale n [] = [] scale n (x:xs) = (n * x): (scale n xs)
Colloquially: Applying
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n and a null sequence yields a null sequence; otherwise, we obtain the first element of the result by multiplying
n by the first element of the input sequence and calling
scale recursively for the rest of the elements. Finally, we can define merge this way:
merge xs [] = xs merge [] ys = ys merge (x:xs) (y:ys) = if x == y then x : (merge xs ys) else if x < y then x : (merge xs (y:ys)) else y : (merge (x:xs) ys)
This code represents the usual way to merge two sorted sequences, except that the merged sequence has only a single copy of values that appear in both input sequences.
If not for lazy evaluation, this code would never terminate. In effect, both the Haskell compiler and language must guarantee that only as much of this computation will be executed as is necessary to determine the values that the programmer wants to see. The idea of writing a computation that takes forever, and trusting the compiler to do only the necessary parts of it, is radical enough that we need to think of it as more than just an optimization. Instead, it's a radical rethinking of what one does in order to write programs.
This radical thinking comes from following the idea of immutable data toward its logical conclusion: Immutable data means that we can avoid calling functions more than once, which means that we can write infinite recursion and let the compiler figure out where to end it. Of course, relying on compilers to do too much for you can have its own problems. I'll discuss some of those next week.


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re Chocolate Bunny.......i think that's the one......the one i'm thinking of is Golden Bunny but i think they are the same........they're just bizarre.....(and friggin scary at times.......lol) The things they said about Jim and his family were well out of order ........( the poor soul must be really messed up though, i hope they're getting the psychological help they need..... .....)


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Sharpness is based on the MTF measurement. Let's start with a practical measurement experiment to help describe what MTF is. If we look at a series of black and white stripes with varying spatial frequency and fixed contrast (same reflectance ratio between black and white, independent of the spatial frequency), we can see that the image of high-frequency stripes has a lower contrast than that for low-frequency stripes. For very high frequencies, the image eventually becomes (almost) uniform, with an intermediate level between black and white, which our eyes perceive as a shade of gray.
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The resolution of a camera is defined by the size of the smallest detail that the camera can optically discriminate. ISO standard 12233 defines the limiting resolution as the first frequency such that the contrast attenuation is 95% (hence a MTF value of 5%). In practice, this value is very small and is also sensitive to measurement noise
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I actually liked it. The first time I heard it. When it was a Demetri Martin bit (at 2:40). Now, some of you may say "But Poore, it's not the same - Demetri talks about trophies, not lab coats! THE JOKES ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT." Those people are retarded. If you thought that, you are retarded. The realization that one can buy a trophy, rather than wasting years of their life training for the activity in which one would win said trophy, and then lie to people to convince them they are a participant in said activity is pretty much identical to the realization that one can buy a lab coat, rather than wasting years of their life training for the profession in which one would wear said lab coat, and then lie to people to convince them they are a member of said profession. They're essentially two instances of the same Mad Lib (the alt-text is even more similar to Mr. Martin's version). And Demetri Martin did it a few years earlier. And he did it better.
So, Randall is a plagiarizing hack, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was cryptomnesia - this comic is still a tired, hackneyed piece of shit. Why? Well, if you're familiar with a little thing called the Millgram experiment, the idea that people will listen to anyone in a lab coat has been around since the early 60's. As far as comedy is concerned, the idea of someone masquerading as an expert simply because they look/act the part has been around forever. It's been done to death. Penn & Teller use it as a recurring comedic segment in their show "Bullshit!" (see the Bottled Water episode, for example, or...well, pretty much every episode has a segment like that). If you think real, real hard about it, you've probably seen comedy in this vein hundreds of times before. So, if someone wants to do comedy of this nature, it better be fucking phenomenal, otherwise I'm going to flip over to porn and jack off for the rest of the night. If Randall wrote for TV, my forearm strength would be fucking incredible.
If you manage to get past those first two glaring flaws that make this pile of bullfuck completely unfunny, you're treated to the joke of "hurr hurr he's telling her her babby won't come out her vag lol". Now I have a juvenile sense of humor. My Halo 3 service tag was "P33" because it looks like it spells "pee". I think the word "shitboats" is objectively hilarious. What I'm saying is I don't have very high standards. I appreciate wit and intelligent humor, but a good dirty joke will still elicit a chuckle. This comic still did nothing for me. Perhaps if he had used "orifice" (which is another word I find, in my immaturity, hilarious) instead of "opening". Perhaps if he had limited it to saying it might shoot out her butt instead of her vagina it would have been funny. But instead, I am treated to the mental image of a newborn clawing its way out of its mother's eyeballs. That's not funny - that's disturbing. That's fucking Eraserhead levels of disturbing. Here's a tip, Randall - gross-out humor only works up to a point. If it's going to give your readers visions of demon fetuses bursting out of people's heads, maybe you should reconsider.
So that's what were left with, folks - an unfunny, cliche, borderline disturbing shit-stain on the underwear of the Internet. That's what xkcd has become - the skidmark of the webcomic community. It's not bad compared to the pants-shittingly terrible likes of Boston and Shaun or Electric Retard, but it's still not something I want to see three times a week.
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