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Every Cub Scout pack is under the supervision of a Pack Committee. This committee consists of a minimum of three registered adult members, one of whom will be the Pack Committee Chairperson.
Regardless of the size of the pack committee, these responsibilities must be performed:
- Make recommendations to the chartered organization for final approval of pack leadership.
- Recruit the Cubmaster and one or more assistant Cubmasters, with the chartered organization's approval.
- Provide adequate and safe facilities for pack meetings.
- Coordinate the pack's program and the chartered organization's program through the chartered organization representative.
- Help with pack charter renewal.
- Help stimulate the interest of adult family members through proper programming.
- Supervise finances and equipment.
- Work closely with the Cubmaster.
- Ensure that all Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts receive a year-round, quality program.
- Complete pack committee Fast Start Training and Basic Leader Training for the position.
- Conduct, with the help of the Cubmaster, periodic training for parents and guardians.
- Cooperate with other Scouting units.
- Is at least 21 years old, subscribes to the Declaration of Religious Principle, and agrees to abide by the Scout Oath or Promise and the Scout Law. Possesses the moral, educational, and emotional qualities that the Boy Scouts of America deems necessary to afford positive leadership to youth. Is selected by the chartered organization, and is registered as an adult leader of the BSA. One of these members is designated as pack committee chair.
- Obviously, with a committee of three, members must assume responsibility for more areas of service than with a committee of seven or more, where the responsibilities can be divided among the members. Although packs can and do operate with a minimum of three committee members, experience has shown that a larger committee generally ensures a stronger, more stable pack and is better able to perform all the required functions to ensure a successful pack program. It is also a way of involving more pack families in meaningful service to the pack.
Committee Membership
A strong pack committee will have individual members assigned to such areas as record keeping and correspondence, finances, advancement, training (Pack Trainer), public relations, and membership and reregistration. The pack committee chair decides how the responsibilities should be divided and gives committee members assignments.
See also
|Cub Scout Resources
|New Leader Brochures:
|Applications & Reports:
|Youth Application
|Adult Leader Application
|Advancement Report
|Online Training:
|New Leader
|Youth Protection Training
|Safe Swim Defense
|Safety Afloat
|Safety Guides:
|Guide to Safe Scouting
|Safe Swim Defense
|Safety Afloat
|Climb On Safely
|Permission Slip
|Medical Exam Forms:
|Annual Health and Medical Record
|Age-Appropriate Guidelines
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"The Butler" polished off the competition at the box office this weekend, scoring its second consecutive No. 1 win.
In its second weekend in theaters, the civil-rights drama starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey saw its ticket sales fall only 31% to $17 million, according to an estimate from distributor Weinstein Co. After 10 days in release, the picture has collected a robust $52.3 million and is well on its way to hitting the $100 million mark.
Erik Lomis, the independent studio's head of theatrical distribution, said the film's "audience is starting to broaden out." On opening weekend, 76% of the crowd was over age 35 -- this weekend, 62%. Last weekend, 39% of the audience was African American, compared with 33% this weekend.
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Things were a bit messier for the weekend's three debuts -- "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," "The World's End" and "You're Next" -- none of which posted especially impressive openings.
"Mortal Instruments," which distributor Sony Pictures had hoped would become the next big teen fantasy franchise, fizzled with young audiences. The $60-million production, based on Cassandra Clare's bestselling novel, opened Wednesday in an effort to spread positive word of mouth before the crowded weekend. But the movie ended up grossing just $9.3 million between Friday and Sunday, giving it a lackluster five-day tally of $14.1 million.
That's bad news for Germany's Constantin Film, which financed the movie, paid another $60 million to market it internationally and is already in preproduction on a sequel. It's unclear whether the company will move ahead with a second film after the first's underwhelming opening, but last week the company's co-president Robert Kulzer expressed confidence in the franchise's potential.
"Even if the movie performs moderately, it will still warrant a sequel," Kulzer said in an interview with The Times. "Now that $60 million has been spent worldwide on prints and advertising, you can already see how the book sales are accelerating, the soundtrack is hitting the charts. Even if the first one doesn't become a gigantic success, we will have a profitable track ahead of us."
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On paper, it seemed "Mortal Instruments" had the potential to become a hit: Clare's five-book series about a teenage girl who discovers she is part of a breed of demon hunters has sold 24 million copies worldwide. Instead, the movie is the latest post-"Twilight" release based on a young-adult novel to misfire, following this year's "Beautiful Creatures" and "The Host."
"Mortal Instruments," which stars Lily Collins, was panned by critics but received a more positive average grade of B+ from its opening weekend crowd, according to market research firm CinemaScore. Not surprisingly, most of those who saw the film were female -- 68% -- but the picture skewed a tad older than expected, as 54% of the audience was over 21.
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The third entry in a trilogy from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the picture performed better than its predecessors. In 2004, "Shaun of the Dead" launched with only $3.3 million, while 2007's "Hot Fuzz" started off with $5.8 million. Neither film was hugely popular in the U.S., but "Hot Fuzz" went on to gross a respectable $80.6 million worldwide.
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First, a set of rattle balls. These were made with various yarn scraps I had around the house and some bells I used for Christmas decorations. The pattern is called Oh Balls! and is available for free on Ravelry. They were quick and easy to knit up.
I also made a pair of booties to go with the sweater vest I made a while back. I used a Malabrigo yarn and this quick pattern.
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I have a tattoo of the Decepticon logo on my arm. I've had it there for about ten years. I got excited when I heard they were making a movie, even though I knew it would be a mixed blessing.
Michael Bay's made some really bad movies. He's also had a couple hits: Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2, and The Rock. The way the movie industry works, this means lots of people are still willing to gamble on him.
The funny thing about Michael Bay is that people will probably start to use him as anectodal evidence that Hollywood underestimates the importance of screenwriting. The Rock in particular already shows up in screenwriting books as an example of how to write a great screenplay. I've watched one sequence in The Rock at least ten times - the half-hour stretch from Sean Connery's initial onscreen appearance, to his escape in San Francisco, to his eventual recapture. It's one of the best examples you'll ever find of character and action being perfectly intertwined, so much so as to become almost indistinguishable. It's so good that instead of watching the rest of the movie, when it's over, I just rewind and watch that particular sequence again.
But the big irony of The Rock is that its fundamentally anti-governmental, anti-militaristic story, peopled with characters brutally wronged by evil men in positions of undeserved authority, plays out against the backdrop of flag-waving jingoism that boggles the mind with its sheer baldness. There's a contrast there, a stark contrast between the imagery and the script, between the theme and the visual backdrop, and when you count all the American flags, military vehicles, heroic soldiers, and respectable Presidents in Michael Bay's other movies, it's pretty easy to guess where that contrast comes from. You kind of even have to wonder why he bothers making movies at all. He seems like he'd be much happier working for the Pentagon.
This obsession dominates the new Transformers movie, so much so that an Australian signal-processing expert who works for the Pentagon, looks like a supermodel, and dresses like a horny teenager gets more screen time than Optimus Prime. The actress who actually plays a horny teenager gets more screen time than all the Transformers combined. She even gets a scene which is supposed to play like an old-school nudge-nudge-wink-wink 60s sex comedy, but instead just comes off as pornographic.
I can't blame Michael Bay for being into hot chicks, but that's one of the perks of being a director: if you have any game at all, you can fuck the hot chicks who work for you, and then when it's time to make the fucking movie, you can get over it and make the fucking movie.
It's like, yeah, she's sexy, sexy is good, but we paid to see giant robots, for fuck's sake. As sexy as she is, she is neither giant nor a robot. It's like you go to get a gourmet meal and they give you a Picasso. That's great, Picasso, who can complain, but it's not like you can snack on a painting. Staring at Megan Fox partially undressed is definitely entertaining, but it's not entertaining in the same way that seeing giant robots is entertaining, and we paid to see giant robots.
What's really silly about all this is that even when we do get to see giant robots, they aren't the giant robots we know and love. Even though there are still people doing amazing work with the original Transformers characters.
The Dreamwave comics are fucking gorgeous.
More importantly, they're clearly the work of people who loved the original series.
You have to wonder about that. For the movie, they threw away the designs of the original series, and even many of the most popular characters. Bumbleebee isn't even recognizable as Bumblebee. Optimus Prime might look different, but he's still basically the same guy. Bumblebee is just a different character who happens to have the same name and the same color paint. Why would they even do that? People aren't going to see Transformers because they loved Armageddon. They're going to see Transformers because they loved Transformers.
The standard answer is, "That's Hollywood," except the truth is, it's not Hollywood. I'm obviously kind of going to town on Michael Bay here, but it's not Michael Bay in my opinion. In fact the movie's got some straight-up evil government characters who the Autobots literally piss on, so if anything I'm being unfair to Michael Bay here.
For years, I've kept up to date on Transformers by lingering in toy aisles at Walgreens and googling Transformers on eBay. Pathetic? Probably. But here's what I learned: Hasbro has been doing this for years.
When Dreamwave released their Transformers limited series about five years ago, it blew up in terms of popularity. It was way more popular than anticipated, and Dreamwave quickly got a deal from Hasbro to do a real ongoing series. (Comics have limited series and regular series, kind of like a mini-series and actual show on TV.) But when they launched the ongoing series, they also launched a series using new characters with new designs as well, corresponding to the toys that were in stores at the time. It was so lame it would actually make you limp if you read it. Just looking at the covers could paralyze your leg.
I'm pretty sure they had to do that shit series as a condition of their deal with Hasbro to do the real series as well.
Meanwhile, over in Japan, where the Transformers are owned by Takara - the company that originally designed them - there's no shortage of toys celebrating the original designs.
Hasbro changes the designs every year because even after twenty years, they just can't admit how much they suck compared to Takara.
Everybody who knows what Creative Commons is, or has heard the Negativland U2 story, knows that corporate ownership of intellectual property limits the potential of culture at large. It's pretty obvious that this usually happens because a corporation wants to retain or exert some kind of power. The "insidious corporations" angle on that kind of thing is obvious, and if you pay any attention to copyright debates on the Web, the "insidious corporations" angle is so obvious and overplayed that it's almost a little tiresome. It's like, yeah, corporations, evil, yadda yadda yadda. We got it already.
The reality is that corporations can be evil, but in Hasbro's case at least, they're often just petty, insecure and disappointing. If there's any argument for overturning copyright law, it's that it's illegal to make a Transformers movie without Hasbro's approval, despite the fact that Hasbro itself doesn't respect the original characters and designs, or the passion that those original characters and designs evoke in the legions of nerds like me who have attached all kinds of personal significance to them. I mean think about it - my tattoo is probably illegal. My tattoo probably qualifies as trademark dilution. If Hasbro sued me to have it forcibly removed, under current US law, they'd probably win.
The Transformers shouldn't belong to people who resent their success because it makes them look inferior to the Japanese company they are in fact totally inferior to. The Transformers should belong to the people who love them. If they did, the new Transformers movie would be a much better movie.
It's still lots of fun, though, at least the first half. Go.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Posted by Giles Bowkett at 10:34 AM
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Awesome post, and (obviously) I totally agree. :)ReplyDelete
My left shoulder and your arm are totally going to have to fight, though. I've had my tattoo for almost 7 years and I think yours is larger, but we can still scrap for geeky fandom supremacy!
The eyes don't look right on your tattoo.ReplyDelete
And I am not a fan of Bay but using the original characters would either severely limit their movements or look really fake. Still that is no reason to omit viking horns from Bumblebee.
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Classical Cello and Guitar Concert on FridaySOCORRO, N.M. September 28, 2011 – Sit back, relax and prepare to be charmed by cello and guitar music performed by the Richter Uzur Duo in their Performing Arts Series debut at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, in New Mexico Tech's Macey Center.
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Anyone planning to stay overnight for Saturday's Enchanted Skies Star Party, the Trinity Site and VLA tours, San Miguel Fiestas or other scheduled events, are invited to listen to a duo that appears on NPR broadcasts of American Public Media's Performance Today.
Before the concert, Tech Club-Club Macey holds a social on the Macey Center patio from 5 to 7:30 p.m. with delectable appetizers. The club presents social hours for people 21 and over. There is a $5 cover charge if you are not a member of TCCM.
Also before the concert, at 2 p.m., is a free master class and mini-concert at the Jean Macey Recital Hall, just south and west of Macey Center. The class will target the interests of musicians, composers, songwriters, music theory students, guitarists and string players.
Viktor Uzur and Brad Richter met in 2005 when Richter was commissioned by Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where Uzur is cello professor, to write a concert length chamber piece (Navigating Lake Bonneville).
The piece prominently featured cello and guitar; and, as it developed, so too did a close friendship and a mutual respect that formed the foundation for this collaboration.
"Both musicians had successful solo careers before they formed a duo," Kalish said. "And they each studied at internationally recognized institutions – Viktor at the Moscow Conservatory, and Brad at the The Royal College of Music.
"I also enjoyed reading that in addition to playing the classics, the musicians started out in rock bands – Viktor as an electric guitarist and Brad as a guitarist and singer," she said.
The Richter Uzur Duo combines classical, rock and folk music and themes into original compositions – and their method of collaboration is just as unique. Because they live almost 1,000 miles apart, they do a great deal of composing over phone and Internet, and write parts separately, combining and re-developing them while on concert tours together.
"This is a rare form of collaboration," Kalish said. "It results in distinctive music – and one of the best parts is that their friendship and love for music is obvious both in their music and their performances."
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Patents v. MicrosoftMarch 30, 2006
I told myself I'd never mention the name again on this site, but it's come to this. Microsoft has (temporarily?) caved on the Eolas patent dispute, and issued a warning to web developers everywhere: the Internet Explorer plugin architecture is going to get an unwelcome downgrade, and you need to change your pages now to avoid causing user experience problems down the road. You've got two months.
Who's affected? Well, do you use the
<object> element? Then, potentially, you are. Sites that embed PDF, Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, or RealPlayer files will all get hit by this.
What happens? The page loads, but the controls are disabled by default. In order to activate them, the user must click on them first.
Bad for advertisers? Yep. Bad for CMS/eCommerce vendors that rely on ActiveX controls? Yep. Bad for media sites? You bet. Bad for Adobe? Of course.
Really, there's no good side here. Except that you've got two months to fix your sites. Like you didn't have anything better to do anyway. Enjoy.
(Ethan Marcotte has some history and technical details about this issue from 2003, if you need to play catch-up.)
(And I should be clear: this is Microsoft's response to litigation brought on by an opportunistic third party, it's not an arbitrary decision on their part to make your life worse.)
Wonder what's next. Do we require the user to specify the activeX control to be loaded so they might view something.
This really stinks. I can't believe that something we've been using for so many years, like the "object" tag can all of a sudden be deemed illegal. We depend on this day-to-day as part of our medium. I can't believe this is happening.
You have to be joking. You cant be serious. You really are serious arent you… Is there no sence to this world any more?
One would think microsoft could have found a better way to change this. I am surprised they aren't putting a PR spin on it saying it is a security enhancement.
Does this mean that, for example, visiting the Macromedia site will require clicking on all flash components once before they will work?
This will look AWFUL for all flash sites that use it for menus and such.
Or am I missing something?
And what's the work-around? It's gonna take more than 60 days for people to get rid of that much flash off their site, even if they wanted to.
And if it's a patent thing, why is Firefox/Opera/etc not equally affected?
It's pretty easy to prepare your Flash movies for the change…
My FlashObject script takes care of it, and adds in plugin detection and makes embedding your movies much easier anyway.
I've also got some more technical details on an older blog post:
I don't know… to me, there's definitely upside to this. The upside being that everyone will have to embed their multimedia content the *right* way… that is, via unobtrusive Javascript a la Geoff Stearns FlashObject or sIFR. When embedded this way, there is no interruption for the user.
Sure there's going to be a bit of work involved in removing hardcoded Flash, but meh… it's about time. As for valid object-only methods of embedding Flash like the Flash Satay, those never worked optimally anyway.
Well that is awfully nice of Microsoft. Why don't they just recall IE altogether. Then we can rest assured that our sites are being viewed properly through more standards based browsers such as Firefox and Safari.
"And if it's a patent thing, why is Firefox/Opera/etc not equally affected?"
Just wait. It all depends on who the loose cannon known as Eolas decides to go after next. Every browser could be affected by this.
If memory serves me correctly, the guy behind Eolas is a fan of FF and the like. Therefore, he only sued Microsoft. In doing this, either he gets paid lots of cash or it creates a larger incentive for the average user to jump ship to the other browsers.
You mean innocent users like me won't have to be subjected to awful auto-loading Flash sites, or auto-playing midi or mp3 files?
Sounds like an excellent new feature. Now I won't have to search frantically for the "Skip Flash intro…" link!
I'm with Ryan Overbey. I hate flash sites!
I love when people manage to get ultra-broad patents like this and use it to make everybody elses lives miserable. I wonder if this guy considered the repercussions of pissing off the majority of all web developers.
Looks like my company will have to stop using ActiveX and look towards AJAX or other tech. Hopefully Atlas gets finished up soon.
All these wars on patents (and patents alone) on software hold back progressive development because in the real world the core of all software is used already over all these different applications. It is a world upside down!
This line from the 2003 article referenced is particularly ironic in these AJAXy times:
"Equally troubling are the solutions described. Most revolve around the use of JavaScript to dynamically generate the embedded content, which is a huge accessibility no-no; as Mark Pilgrim would remind us, 11% of Internet users don't use JavaScript."
If they don't defend their patent, they'll probably lose it, so FF watch out.
So, as a web developer, I assume that I can send Eolas the bill for updating all my sites right? I sure as hell am not going to bill my clients for this, it isn't them asking for the change.
We need a class action suite against Eolas now for all the time it will take developers to update websites, then maybe they'll back off.
Besides FlashObject and SIFR for inserting Flash movies, of course UFO http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/ is EOLAS proof too ;-)
Why are images not affected? Is it because they are handled by the OS and don't need external applications to load, like Flash/PDF?
If I'm not mistaken, PDF is native to OS X (reading and writing) so Safari won't be bothered by this, at least not for viewing PDF objects.
But what if the appproach of 'native viewers' is extended? We could consider ActiveX, Flash, et al just another file format that is handled by the system, not by a third party plugin.
Of course, one could still install the actual third party software to ensure better performance, but the browser should not be aware of this, because the actual processing of the format is being done by the system.
Wouldn't that, moving the plugin architecture to the os level, avoid this patent, since it seems to only applicable on Web browsers?
I've used the ms winsock control (via an object tag) in a small (but very useful) HTA application I created once. Anyone know how this would be affected?
Why aren´t tables plugins?
Oh they should be…
I have to agree with the few people here that there is definitely an upside to this.
There is too much reliance nowadays on flash for content and site design. Maybe, just maybe, some of these flash-only companies will actually hire web designers that know what CSS and XHTML are instead of just looking for flash programmers.
Thanks Geoff, Mike D. et al for the work around solutions!!!
I'm being short-sighted here, but I don't care, I'm not that fussed about the whole embed problem. We lose flash, no problem for me, I don't design in it and dislike sites that use it, good riddance. I don't use activeX controls, goodbye to them too.
The only thing it'll do to affect me is media playback, and Windows Media could do with being stopped from auto playback, so no real lose.
On the other hand, it is another example of stupid patenting by the US Patent Office. Currently eBay are under threat with their Buy it Now buttons, Amazon hold the patent on one button checkouts, so no one else could implement it, and, as Michael Crichton pointed out in the NY Times recently, it's illegal to even say "Elevated homocysteine is linked to B-12 deficiency," because someone has patented that information (even though it's a fact). Oh, and some companies even have patents on your genes.
Madness I tell thee.
This is a great link that shows and describes exactly how this is going to affect sites with embedded content.
Myself, I don't have way out. I've got content that displays in a Flash viewer (around 60,000 images to be exact… or general) and this seriously puts a damper on things.
Normally I'm ok with companies sueing MS but this is such utter b*llsh*t. It's patents like this that demonstrate just how broken the patent system is.
Ben Mc:
You're confusing trademarks with patents. Eolas does not need to proactively sue all infringers if they don't want to. If they had somehow trademarked the object tag, then they would be forced to defend against all instances of dilution.
Overall this is a good thing, the only sites that this would bother me for would only require a couple quick changes since they're templated. I agree that Flash is extremely overused. Flash is a cancer to the web that is only useful for games, videos, and promotional sites. It shouldn't be used for menus or anything like that, that can all be replicated with some XHTML/CSS/JS anyways with better usability.
Whoa Mike and Bobby,
I'm using sIFR and I get the "Click to activate…" message for each heading. The font displays correctly but I get the message and a box around the Flash content until I click it in IE.
Actually Mike, I get the "Click to activate and use this control" message and a box on hover for all of the headings at http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/ in IE.
The conspiracy theorist in me smells bargaining tactics. Microsoft may be saying "web developers, you have two months" but I'm hearing "Eolas, you have two months to back down," essentially calling their bluff. If it does go down like that, instead of having the cash they were grabbing, Eolas will just have this reputation of "the bad guys who sabotaged the internet for money".
And beyond this, they'd have to go after other browsers, lest it appear that they're conspiring to erode IE's market share.
This'd all make a lot more sense if the news story was dated April 1.
"Flash is a cancer to the web"…
maybe it's because you don't know how to used it well.
There's alot of great Flash site out there. The problem isn't Flash, but the people who built the site in Flash!
Yikes! Why all the Flash hate? It's proven itself over and over to be a dependable alternative and unique platform for rich media content delivery as well as video. I hope it buries Real Player and Windows Media someday…
I agree that there are REALLY BAD Flash web sites out there, but think about how many REALLY BAD html/css web sites still exist out there, that make serious money (Anyone heard of MySpace?). And to boot, throw in the REALLY HORRIBLE so-called "web designers" that give our profession a bad name on a daily basis.
There are benefits to both individually, and rewards to using both together. Todd Dominey's work is living proof. He's a perfect example of great design and development in two platforms. So, pick your poison and drink up.
Many of us dislike Microsoft IE for obvious reasons. They have a responsibility to deliver a quality product and because they're the king of the hill, they've shirked that responsibility for years. It's interesting how a mysterious entity like Eolas finally backed them into a legal corner that they can't fight their way out of.
Yeah, users are going to be pissed, and us developers are furious, but has anything changed? Will the users really be irritated enough to download a different browser when MS still controls 90% of the browser market? Will this negatively affect Microsoft in any way?
This just makes our jobs as designers and developers continually challenging, and if anything, puts more money in our pockets. But if web developers and designers are really that upset about it, why not organize rallies and take to the streets ala the immigration debate? Now that'd be interesting.
"And beyond this, they'd have to go after other browsers, lest it appear that they're conspiring to erode IE's market share."
Read through on some of the links and you'll see that this is exactly what Eolas is trying to do.
I think that there is a place for flash, there are some truly wonderful sites out there (and some truly awful ones!). I wonder how Eolas has managed to win given they did establish that there had been 'prior art' related to embedding of plug-ins prior to the Eolas patent being awarded.
On the bright side, maybe this will encourage people to stop using flash when it's a horrible choice (hint: if you're using flash for a navigation menu, it's overkill). Flash has many strengths, but it sucks for generating GUI elements, and it sucks for making "web apps". It's great for animation, great for video, and great for allowing socket connections and video / audio recording. It's a convenient cross-platform way to do these things. But it breaks every single browser convention when it's used to deliver web applications. Right clicking a link should let me open in a new tab / window or bookmark it. I should be able to copy-paste stuff without the author having to explicitly add a bunch of cruft.
There's a known bug in the IE patch. If you have 'Disable Script Debugging' unchecked, you'll still have to click and activate all the Flash movies/activx controls.
It's listed as a known issue in this MS KB article, and they say they'll address it in the future:
Actually I'm only having the problem on my "dirty line" computer at work. At home were I do not have 'Disable Script Debuggin' checked, I do not have the problem. I had to check after reading your message because I use Firefox as my main browser.
When I get to work tomorrow I'll give the settings on my work computer a check.
What's the problem?
Developers have it in their heads that they have to support IE?
They risking mental illness and experience deep misery everytime it bites them.
If sites 'break' in IE, let them break in IE and the end user will soon work out that they don't 'break' in Firefox. It's not just flash, ever wanted SVG or MathML in ie. IE holds you back.
This really isn't developers problem, it's Microsoft and their users problem, why not allow firefox to gain ground. Refuse to 'fix' sites, just tell people to install a happy browser. It's time developers admitted enough was enough. Don't put up with it, and let's just bury IE for all time.
One of, if not the first thing anyone should do when they get a new computer is install Firefox. That's a mindset that's only half a degree away from straight forward.
"Developers have it in their heads that they have to support IE?"
LOL Blah. You show nothing but your own ignorance. Real developers don't get to decide what their clients use. The client does. You're clearly not a professional developer.
I suppose you're right. I am and I am not. What a tragedy it is that 'professional developers' are caught in no mans land with the bombs of the browser wars exploding all around them. Those poor peices of meat, what a life they have been prescribed.
You know what, I don't know what annoys me more. People that overuse flash, or people that complain about how much they hate flash sites. I consider myself both a designer and developer, have been coding Standards based xhtml & css sites for some time now, AND use flash quite a bit as well. And flash will without a doubt will continue to play a strong role on the web. I've run across flash sites that have been a sigh of relief if not a pleasure to use as far as usability & interactivity. And I've also browsed many a "standards based" sites that have been a nightmare to use. I think as designers and developers, we need to embrace the web as a whole…
As with the change, it's not the end of the world. Simply update your sites. At least there is an alternative…
People have to stop simply said : I really hate Flash! Do we really hate HTML because some site are just badly done.
Flash has it's own place in the web, like someone said.
But it's also true that, as a webdesigner/webdeveloper, we have to choose the best technology to do a site. So I guess that all start right there.
The thing I like with flash is that it add creativity, and change from the same sort of template that we saw on blog.
Hi Geoff,
At work you're right. Checking the "Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)" option makes the problem go away for sFIR and the Macromedia web site. The only difference I can think of is that at home I'm using the media version of XP, while at work I'm using XP Professional.
Unfortunately I don't have a choice at work as to which browser is used. They use IE and that is that. Like Mike Davidson at http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/ I use sFIR for headings. That was the only way I could use the font that the Intranet/Internet Compliance and Standards group said that I had to use on web sites that have dynamically created headings. Otherwise I would have had to use some sort of dynamic image replacement technique that I don't have the resources to implement because I have to use a specific web server environment. And why write my own graphic text generator when Flash does such a great job? At least I got them to buy off on "mostly" using web standards, which is an improvement.
Ok - so we have the pro-easy-Flash crew in one corner, the do-it-properly crew in another corner, and many minor factions around the ring with flag waving luddites in the gods. But you're missing the point.
Ian Muir, Johan, Lee and roberthahn were on the ball - it's a US Patent office thing. The sooner patent laws around the world are updated the better. In the meantime we have to actually read the T&C's of all the little bits of code we use and spend a little more time making sure we code our sites carefully.
^^ well said.
Tim has it right - as a professional developer you cannot dictate to your clients what browser somthing works in. They have every right to demand (and most do) that they work in most browsers.. IE is a major browser.
Like it or not folks, this is a SERIOUS lose - lose. It is posturing?
I do believe, though, that Microsoft will go through with the threat.
People from all over the world will remember who forced pain on them - and it will not be Microsoft.
If you ask me, David has the big head in this one while trying to slay Goliath and it will cost developers into the Billions of dollars in lost revenue to "repair" sites.
Thats hard earned money which could be spent on new development and is unrecoverable.
How on earth did Microsoft get the code in the first place?
stole it?
FF and other browsers aren't affected by this because they do not actually embed the plug-in technology in the browser, right?
They use external players that are called into the browser when prompted by embedded content. MS/IE actually embeds the plugin in the browser by way of the Active-X object, and that is what violates the patent.
Or at least I remember seeing that somewhere. I may be mistaken though.
Dave, I'll keep my compliment brief before commenting on the issue at hand:
I'm new to web development and mostly use it for my personal blog to the woman I love who lives in another country… and now business sites for my family members and beyond.
The more I do, whether it's the great resources at Zen Garden, various hacks and solid design advice, good "heads up" like todays' or, strangely enough, taking a deeper look at the Blogger code I've been ultra customizing for two months and realizing YOU wrote the template, I'm beyond impressed and approaching amazed.
Okay, sycophantism over.
This object thing sucks. I only learned how to use the tag embedding .FLV videos a couple weeks ago and it's great. I'm lucky in that I'm already writing my instructions to users with the I.E. limitations in mind so they get it.
Therefore, I don't have to go and redo all my work. To all those that used flash, etc. extensively, my heart goes out to you. What a lame brain thing for something so beautiful.
The only recommendation I, a newb, have is to write clear instructions so that your visitors know what's going on and don't get PO'd. You guys are all bright enough to rewrite and rework your sites as time permits.
Friends, keep up the inspirational conversation and great designs!
Robert Nyman has a related article here, just down here ↓
People … this is NOT just a Flash thing. That's an easy work around.
This will also affect DHTML - there is a list of about 50 DHTML on___ tags that will be affected including onCLICK and onBLUR
I have to disagree.
Eolas aren't opportunistic. They're exercising their rights over protected IP offered for sale to, rejected, and then misappropriated by Microsoft.
This is Microsoft's fault, and their response is not demanded by the terms of the settlement but conditioned by their own shoddy attitude to user experience.
There is no comparison between cases like RIM / Blackberry and this.
Good to remind us the Eula. ;-)
Sad, but, to read things like this:
"By the time it's all said-and-done, Microsoft will probably have spent around, oh, a zillion bucks for an innovation that might have cost little more than several dozen cappuccinos in 1993."
From what I understand, images are not affected because they're not interactive content. Also, a running embedded windows media plugin will not be affected, just the *user interaction* will be disabled initially, until the user clicks on it.
Also, accessing the object through JavaScript is supposedly possible. So if you would use a plugin that only showed the video without controls, and have the control buttons in HTML using JavaScript to control the video, it would work without specific workarounds like dynamically adding the tag with document.write.
This is bad for the web as a whole, fundamentally BREAKING the <object> tag (at least for interactive content). Although, the way I understand it, if the object tag is used for functionality that is native in the browser (e.g. SVG in Firefox), there should be no problem. Nevertheless, this is a big step backwards. So much for software patents stimulating innovation.
One may think that this is good for Firefox, but really it's not. There is nothing that prevents Eolas from sueing other browsers except for their goodwill.
The Eolas director did make a statement that he had no problem with their technology being used in free software, but if someone commercially sold their technology that they wanted a cut as well. However, that's just what the man says now, and when there is big money to be earned (e.g. mozilla.com does have funds, after all), I doubt whether he will be able to resist.
I'd say the only ones who benefit from this is the anti-Software Patents movement. And somehow I doubt they're happy with that.
Okay, it's about time somehow that IE got its deserved thrashing and maybe the gigantic upheaval this downgraded object thing is causing will do just that.
I'm not saying what the third party did is right or wrong, and what MS is doing about it is right or wrong, I just know that without change we will all still be stuck with IE's broken DOM, CSS support, and other quirks which drive all us web developer's nuts sometimes. When money talks, and it talks badly in this way, maybe good change will come of it in the end. I hope so. Though I do sympathize with all the folks like me who now have hours of pages modifications ahead.
All the "Well it'll cleanse the world of Flash!" comments are nothing short of naive.
It is not just Flash that is affected.
Do you use embedded PDF files? How about Java applets? A media player of some sort? Maybe you like the aging Shockwave player?
Well, that's too bad! Because they're also all affected by this ridiculous update!
Congratulations Eolas, you stuffed up the Internet. I hope you're happy with yourselves.
"11% of Internet users don't use JavaScript."
Well that was old numbers, and for those of you that doesn't bother checking the uptodate ones it is 3%.
Hehe, another commenter above also noticed this one and quickly thought of Ajax… Oh, the irony!


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My staple workouts for Ironman.
Josh, by the way, DID do what it took when he became an Ironman age-group national champion and earned a Kona slot.
I taught myself how to swim in 1995 and was never a great swimmer, but I was able to swim 52:00 at Ironman off of less than 20k per week. I never swam Masters because I was more interested in getting the shit done rather than doing math.
BAND. This is where you wrap a band around your ankles and pull with paddles. Start with a buoy and then get strong enough to not need it. Ironman is about strength.
6-10 X 500. Any athlete of mine will recognize this session. I did this same set 4 days a week for years. Again, get in... do the work and then get out.
This was broken in to:
500 pull easy warm-up.
5 X 100 at faster than T-pace on 20" rest.
500 pull at T-pace. Repeat as many times as possible.
I would also often do the 5 X 100 as a kick set trying to hold sub 1:30 pace on each. I would sometimes accumulate 1500 total kick in a workout. My thought on this, especially for a non-wetsuit swim is that what you do first matters most last. If you suck at kicking and have to kick in the swim then it's going to hurt your run.
Drills. If you swim a crap load but can't swim fast then your form is off. I always kept it simple with basic Total Immersion stuff. No need to over think drill work. If your form sucks then basic drills work. I swam 59:00 in 2000 and then over the winter I did a 2 month complete (meaning 100%) drill focus. I didn't swim a single length of free for 8 weeks... I then swan 54:00 in my first race of 2001. If you have a weakness then do what it takes to correct it. That doesn't mean do what you like... but do what's right.
"ME" or muscle endurance. This is essentially riding (preferably uphill) in the biggest gear you can push with a very low cadence. Having lifted weights diligently for years I was somewhat strong at these. On the Computrainer I could hold ~400 watts and on the road I could push close to that. I would get my cadence down in to the 20-30 rev range. Later on I realized that I pushed the cadence too low and would have been better served with 50-60 revs at a higher HR/ intensity and lower wattage to work more of a metabolic aspect.
Long Tempo. And I mean LONG. My staple specific rides were 5 X 1:00 (hour) at tempo effort. Back in 2000 leading up to Kona I did two 120 mile long tempo efforts with my Powertap (yes, they made them back then) holding ~230-240 watts. This is a long tempo. I rode 4:50 that year in horrible conditions.
Early season Threshold. In January-February I always did a fairly huge run focus so I would only ride ~10 hours or so a week. I started training with power back in 2000 and one of my goals was always to push my FTP higher. I would start with a Conconi Test and then ride 2 X week sessions that targeted FTP. Something like 4 X 5:00 at FTP (+/-10 watts) to start, not that hard at all. But I would build on to that session every time. So maybe 4 X 7:00, then 4 X 9:00...etc. Then as the weather became nicer I would gravitate away from this to longer efforts outside. If you live in a cold climate and have an Ironman focus in October then why build your base in January 10 months out? Focus on shorter, power sessions inside when it's blowing snow outside, then ride long once the weather gets nice. Use this time for a solid run focus.
20" per mile faster than goal pace off the bike. My goal pace was always 6:30 per mile at Ironman. So any time I ran off the bike I would target ~6:00-6:10 pace (which at the time was my MAF HR 140-150). My staple long brick was ~5 hours on the bike with a majority at goal race effort followed by 9 miles at 6:10 pace. My number one regret has always been that I did too much too hard so it wasn't uncommon at all for me to roll through this 9 miles pushing way too hard (I looked back and saw a couple of sub 52:00 runs for this session) Stupid. Harder/ faster is not better here. Be disciplined and run no faster than 20" per mile than goal pace... if you feel good enough to run faster then run longer!
Long run. I almost always did a ~17 mile long tempo/ hill run on Tuesday and then a long 'easy' run on Sunday. I would do a long run of run 20+ miles almost every single week from December to September. I read somewhere one time that you need 20 runs of 20+ miles before an 'A' Ironman and I believe this. Particularly if you are not a runner. If you want to be a good runner then act like it. Remember that there is absolutely a direct correlation between volume and results across all three disciplines. If you want to run well at Ironman then there should be a certain amount of 'pure runner' mentality here. Again, this doesn't mean do what you like but do what's right.
Tempo. I never neglected this and I never will. I still feel that this run should always have a front row seat regardless of your racing focus whether it be sprint triathlon or 100 mile runs. I would go as far as to say that this run, for a seasoned runner, is more important than a long run. They make you strong not only physically, but MOST importantly mentally! If you aren't strong mentally then you will not run well at Ironman... guaranteed across the board 100% of the time. Start with just 3 miles at Z3/4 effort and incrementally build on to it. There is no real limit. And duration and intensity have an inverse relationship. If you run 3 miles then run at threshold... if you run 18 miles then run 5-10 beats above MAF.
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- beth said...
Pretty interesting....As someone who has always smoked your koolaid and knows it works, i'm adding in a few of these tips for my IM Cozumel build...
Not sure about the 20 20 mile runs, though! I've done two this YEAR. but I do a 2-hour run most weeks, so maybe that's equivalent to your 20 since you run faster?
Ok, gotta go google "Conconi Test" and do one this week.
And about the tempo run. WITHOUT A DOUBT the most important run I do. Every week. 2 mi warm up 4 miles tempo (6:10 to 6:30 pace depending) and 2 mi cool down.
Anyhow, thanks for jotting this down for people like me who appreciate it! p.s. still impressed with Leadman.
- September 18, 2012
- Lucho said...
Beth- I did say "Particularly if you are not a runner"... for a total fucking bad-ass like you, who has put in the YEARS of consistent work, it isn't required! An experienced runner can certainly get away with less and you fit in to that category for sure. Sub 3... you rock (but no surprise really:)
- September 18, 2012
- Steve Pero said...
We non Tri/runner only types appreciate your workout tips...at least I do! (and I'm 60 and have been running for 37 years)
Thanks, Lucho...
- September 19, 2012
- Chris Holbrook said...
I recently listened to Ben Greenfield's interview with Sam Inkinen. What are your thoughts on lower total volume and more intensity. I spent this past season mainly following a Purple Patch Fitness guided 1/2 IM plan. Most weeks were around 13-15 hours with variance on either side. I feel like 9 months later the only thing I'm better at is exercising. I got sick of the volume, the time, the effort, and most of all the return on my investment--timewise. My times were marginally faster than last year.
I recently purchased Ben's 3 months of off-season workouts for triathletes from Training Peaks. I need to feel refreshed for next year as well as build some muscular strength. Going forward, my focus next year will be on 1/2s. Maybe an IM but I don't want to commit now after withdrawing from Louisville this past August (bye, bye 600 bucks). My plan is to stick with 10-12 hrs/week but a lot less of just swimming, biking and running. My swim sucks, so I really appreciate your advice on drills. I definitely found that getting through 3500-400y sessions wasn't physically that taxing but my speed was practically unchanged. That's a total waste of time. As for the other two, I want to get out there and get it done. No more doubles. Just get in my stuff and move on.
Anyway, I'll leave it there, but would certainly appreciate your thoughts.
- September 19, 2012
- Carter said...
ahhhhh, perfect timing for my year ahead. Thanks for the thoughts and timely post, been missing your regular IM discussions.
- September 19, 2012
- Lucho said...
Chris- Part of the reasoning behind doing the 4k swims is to prepare you for faster training later. Depending on the type of work done in that 4k it may very well not make you faster! But down the line you will absorb harder swims much better. It's basic "base" concepts... train to train.
On this morning's podcast I discussed the idea of 'reverse periodization' and there are factors to consider. Yes, I think you can drop your volume, increase intensity right now and possibly do better, but only if you do have a very well formed base of training under you and your aerobic economy is not a limiter. Then you should also go back in a few months and re-touch some base work for a few weeks.
I would also suggest keeping at least one session each week in each discipline as a longer aerobic focused session. But remember that 10 beats below threshold (Z3 or tempo) is still utilizing fat very much, so a ~2:00 ride with 1:00+ at tempo is still a solid way to get a long ride in.
- September 19, 2012
- Kevin said...
Lucho - great posting with specifics and purpose in each workout.
Imagine that - structured 'all of the above' approach (LSD, intensity and specificity).
Really have enjoyed your commentary on Endurance Planet. Very down to earth - especially always bringing people back to specificity; a bunch of articles now popping up that are putting the emphasis back on the fact that you need to train like you want to race. (e.g. Renato Canova in Running Times this past month). As a 49yr old athlete still PR'ing based on these concepts, it's nice to read / hear :-)
And 'Conconi Test' - man, I haven't heard that term in years. Sweet :-)
Again - seriously; thanks for taking time to share your insights and knowledge! It really has helped me to stay focused on core concepts / common sense approach to training which just seems to work for me every time.
And congrats on Leadman!!
- September 19, 2012
- Lucho said...
Thank you for the good word Kevin! Much appreciated.
I still have PAGES of graphs from Conconi tests. I used to do them quite often so I could change my training intensities based on current fitness data. I loved them.
- September 19, 2012
- Chris Holbrook said...
Thanks Lucho. I've heard all that stuff about swimming more to be fitter both for the swim as well as the bike and run. And yes, I did feel that way this year. At the same time, it's incredibly frustrating when you see your 100 pace essentially staying static. And I'd notice a fairly significant difference when swimming in a 50m vs 25y. Yes, I know more push-offs, etc, but it was like I could feel my form turning to shit in a long-course pool.
As for the rest, I'm not planning on giving up on volume all together, but I do want to put more thought into upping the quality in relation to the quantity. I felt tired all the time. Plus, it was just eating up too much family time and outside enjoyment time. Reading, watching movies, etc.
Through January I'm just going to concentrate on building strength and working on muscular imbalances with greatly diminished time spent SBR'ing. I want to feel refreshed and eager come next year. I'll probably grab another one of Ben's plans and go with it come January or so. I'll do next season's first 1/2 in mid-May and reassess based on how I do.
Thanks for responding. I always look forward to the ATU episodes as well as the new one, Ask the Coach. And finally, congrats and great accomplishment at Leadville this year.
- September 20, 2012
- Lucho said...
Ya, I get that! I didn't want to spend all my energy or time on running/ biking a crap ton for Leadman. So I traded out volume for intensity. My base is pretty solid so it worked adequately. Make sure to balance the intensity with enough recovery or you might literally run yourself in to the ground! Good luck!
- September 20, 2012
- Chris Holbrook said...
Thanks again. My base is pretty good. Okay, you can never have too much base. But given that, I'm in good shape. I totally get what you're saying about intensity. I weigh 190 and it takes a toll. Anyway, it's the journey and not the conclusion that matters. I tried one way. Now I'll try another.
Btw, I misspoke. I meant to say congrats on Leadman!
- September 20, 2012
- Lucho said...
Chris- "I tried one way. Now I'll try another" Exactly! This is how we find what works for us as individuals! I think intensity is king. There's nothing that stimulates physical and mental strength like intensity. If your base is solid then you'll thrive on this approach.
- September 20, 2012
- Chris Holbrook said...
Lucho, I really like this post. I've read it several times and it's given me a lot to chew on.
In terms of specific implemntation, I've opted to go with a modified all drill swim bloc. Modified because I'm starting each workout with 500 with bouy, band and FINIS paddles. At the moment I'm leaving the last 50 for paddles and band only. This is a disaster for me, which obvioulsy is another way of saying my alignment stinks. However, over time I want to gradually increase my warm-up time spent without the bouy and with band and paddles only. Then I'm doing some kicking.
The rest of the workout is drill only. So far I've simply been doing 50s of catch-up over and over. I can't believe how taxing this is. What's interesting is that I'm finding my times are just marginally slower than my straight swim times. Again: alignment, alignment, alignment. I'm committed to this approach. I'm going to build my distance per drill as well add in more drills. I'm convinced I'm going to see big improvements.
- October 11, 2012
- Kevin said...
Hi Tim.
congraulations on Leadman! Knew you would win despite what you said the week before in the podcast.
Quick couple of questions. In IM I can swim between 58-1.05 with little or no training due to a solid swim background when I was young. Obviously when i'm fast its because I have trained!
My bike is OK at 6.30 in last IM and I need to work on that and weight issues.
My run is fair with best IM being 4.30 and worst 5.30, but I have regularly run sub 4 this year while training for a 100 Ultra.
Long winded way to ask what should I focus on and also do you do coaching for overseas athletes remotely.
I am doing IM Austria and then the CCC race of UTMB and so want to do well at IM and to complete the CCC. I raced just Ultras this year and then suffered with overtraining but am back and ready to rock again.
Most coaches I know do not have knowledge of Ultra and IM and definately don't have the depth of knowledge you have. I have used the Don Fink plan for my last 3 IM with mixed success although I do like it's simplicity.
- November 03, 2012
- Melissa McNamara said...
Lucho! Big fan from ATC!
Question on the 6-10 x 500 swim workout - which part would you cut in half for 70.3?
3-5 x 500 or 6-10 x 250?
Would love to hear your answer if you have a minute - thanks - Melissa
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A Bucknell University student group has received a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis.
The project, "A Better Transportation Decreases Poverty Gap," will provide a bicycle and cart distribution program to 33 families in Tchada community in Baleng village located in West Cameroon.
The students involved in the project are Leo Fotsing Fomba, Zwelani Ngwenya and Chanda Singoyi who plan to take the project live during the summer of 2014.
Fomba, who is from Baleng, is a sophomore majoring in global management and minoring in international relations with a concentration in sub-Saharan Africa. During his visit this January in Cameroon, Fomba established contact with the assistant of the King Tella Nengou.
In July, Fomba will meet with the local authorities and the King of Baleng to hold workshops explaining the project before distributing the bicycles, carts, repair tools and connection lockers.
The team also will teach bicycle maintenance/repair skills and hold a seven-mile cycling celebration.
In addition, the community will receive two pairs of grain grinders to allow free access to local processing of grains for home use or for sale.
Zwelani Ngwenya, who is from Zimbabwe, is a junior majoring in civil engineering; he has volunteered with Project Higher Life Foundation. Chanda Singoyi, who is from Zambia, is a first-year student majoring in biology; he has volunteered with Pestalozzi Education Center. Through those programs they have acquired skills such as project implementation, leadership development, website management and conflict resolution.
This project will provide a cost-effective means of transportation of goods for people in Tchada. A key problem is the lack of adequate transportation linked with other areas; head/backloading or general physical portage dominates each activity related to agriculture and daily chores. This project aims to empower the families to accumulate enough human, physical, financial and social assets to tackle problems including youth migration, illiteracy among children and economic struggles with reaching viable markets.
This is the eighth year Bucknell has participated in the Projects for Peace program. As a Davis United World College Scholars Program partner school, Bucknell is invited to nominate student projects for the program.
Bucknell students have worked on providing clean drinking water in South America; establishing a sewing co-op in Guatemala; designing a water pumping station in Nicaragua; making a documentary about the plight of banana workers in Nicaragua; establishing a bicycle co-op for two villages in northern Uganda, a project that has become Bicycles Against Poverty.
More recently, two groups received funding to raise awareness of social problems in Puerto Rico and a government-funded healthcare program in Sierra Leone. Last year, a student group received funding for a solar-powered lamp distribution in elementary schools in northwestern China, aimed at improving students' studying conditions in schools without electricity.
In its eighth year, the Projects for Peace program honors philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, who launched the initiative on her 100th birthday in 2007. Each of the 100 projects selected are designed to encourage and support motivated youth to create and implement their ideas for building peace throughout the world in the 21st century.
Projects for Peace invites all undergraduates at the 91 American colleges and universities which are partners in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to compete for these grants. Other participating institutions include International Houses Worldwide, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Future Generations Graduate School, and the University of Maine.
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Europe 2020: Commission proposes new economic strategy in Europe.
The European Commission has launched today the Europe 2020 Strategy to go out of the crisis and prepare EU economy for the next decade. The Commission identifies three key drivers for growth, to be implemented through concrete actions at EU and national levels: smart growth (fostering knowledge, innovation, education and digital society), sustainable growth (making our production more resource efficient while boosting our competitiveness) and inclusive growth (raising participation in the labour market, the acquisition of skills and the fight against poverty). This battle for growth and jobs requires ownership at top political level and mobilisation from all actors across Europe. Five targets are set which define where the EU should be by 2020 and against which progress can be tracked.
President Barroso said, "Europe 2020 is about what we need to do today and tomorrow to get the EU economy back on track. The crisis has exposed fundamental issues and unsustainable trends that we can not ignore any longer. Europe has a growth deficit which is putting our future at risk. We must decisively tackle our weaknesses and exploit our many strengths. We need to build a new economic model based on knowledge, low-carbon economy and high employment levels. This battle requires mobilisation of all actors across Europe."
First of all, Europe must learn the lessons from the global economic and financial crisis. Our economies are intrinsically linked. No Member State can address global challenges effectively by acting in isolation. We are stronger when we work together, and a successful exit therefore depends on close economic policy coordination. Failure to do so could result in a "lost decade" of relative decline, permanently damaged growth and structurally high levels of unemployment.
The Europe 2020 Strategy therefore sets out a vision for Europe's social market economy over the next decade, and rests on three interlocking and mutually reinforcing priority areas: Smart growth, developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation; Sustainable growth, promoting a low-carbon, resource-efficient and competitive economy; and Inclusive growth, fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion.
Progress towards these objectives will be measured against five representative headline EU-level targets, which Member States will be asked to translate into national targets reflecting starting points:
In order to meet the targets, the Commission proposes a Europe 2020 agenda consisting of a series of flagship initiatives. Implementing these initiatives is a shared priority, and action will be required at all levels: EU-level organisations, Member States, local and regional authorities.
The ambition of Europe 2020 means that leadership and accountability must be taken to a new level. The Commission invites Heads of State and Government to take ownership for this new Strategy and endorse it at the Spring European Council. The role of the European Parliament will also be enhanced.
The governance methods will be reinforced to ensure that commitments are translated into effective action on the ground. The Commission will monitor progress. Reporting and evaluation under both Europe 2020 and the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) will be carried out simultaneously (while remaining distinct instruments) to improve coherence. This will allow both strategies to pursue similar reform objectives while remaining as separate instruments.
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Last week, I attended CES for the first time and during my time there I was using a Powerbag backpack to keep all my devices charged. You can read what my first experience was like here. The Powerbag is a bag with a battery inside. They have got three different types (backpack, messenger, and briefcase) and a variety of models to choose from. Powerbag sent me their backpack for review, which is designed by fül. In fact, majority of their backpacks and messenger bags are designed by them.
The bag looks a bit bulky and is not the most elegant looking of backpacks, but I didn't mind. However, from a budget perspective this backpack is definitely well priced. There are two main pockets in the back for storing your items. The largest pocket can hold up to a 16-inch laptop and it is padded on either side. The second largest pocket, has a variety of smaller pockets, a padded slot for an iPad or small tablet and a 3000 mAh battery.
In order to charge your device, you must use one of the included cables found in a small pouch located on the side of the bag. The backpack comes with a 30-pin plug for all iOS devices and two double ended micro/mini-USB plugs. Charging your devices is simple. Once you connect the device, you just press the Powerbag button, which is located on the front of the bag. Press it and it will light up to 4 LED lights hidden beneath the bag's exterior to show how much remaining charge there is in the battery. A pretty cool feature built into the battery is that it will automatically stop charging your devices once they are fully charged. Essentially, it is "smart" battery. In addition, the battery will automatically turn off once you remove your device, ensuring that you don't accidentally drain it.
The battery locks into place, though it can be released by pushing on a small plastic tab. Included is an AC pack that can plug directly into the battery or connect to a port on the face of the bag for charging. Also, a USB port is built into the battery itself for other devices. During my test during CES, I was able to charge my iPhone 4S four times to full capacity from a charge of 10%, which is pretty darn good considering that the battery's capacity is only 3000mAh.
Build quality of the Powerbag Backpack is fantastic. Zippers open and close smoothly and padding is offered on the back and suspension straps. However, it should be mentioned again that this isn't one of the most elegant looking backpacks out there. With that being said, for the reasonable price and fantastic build quality this backpack is definitely worth a purchase if you want backup power on the go for your devices. You can purchase a Powerbag for $130 here.


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Wabash Takes Fourth at Woehnker Invitationalby Brent Harris • November 20, 2010 Share:
Fourteen top-five performances guided the Wabash swimming and diving team to a fourth-place finish at the annual Patrick Woehnker Memorial Invitational held Friday and Saturday at the Class of 1950 Natatorium.
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Freshman David Phillips paced Wabash with second place finishes in the 1650 free, the 400-yard individual medley, and the 500-yard freestyle. He was also part of the Little Giants' fourth-place 800-yard freestyle relay team of Phillips, Chad Woods, Logan Rice, and Charles Williams that finished with a time of 7:24.61. Phillips touched out in 16:51.83 in the 1650 free on Friday night, then followed with a time of 4:19.29 for his second place finish in the 400 IM. His time of 4:51.10 was good for second place in the 500 free.
Adam Current (left) finished second in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 51.90. Teammate David Birrer was fifth, finishing in 53.46. Jake Schild took second on the three-meter diving board, scoring a total of 154.55 points. Jacob Anderson took fourth place with a score of 120.20. Schild was also third in the one-meter diving competition with a score of 209.35.
Evan Rhinesmith added two third-place finishes. His first came in the 100-yard breaststroke, finishing in 1:00.19. He added another in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:16.36).
Williams touched in fifth place in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 56.19.
Eric Vaughn, Rhinesmith, Current, and Williams combined to finish third in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:38.93. Alex Beck, Vaughn, Williams, and Rhinesmith took fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
The University of Indianapolis won the men's competition with a total of 661 points. DePauw was second (594 points), followed by Carthage (501) and Wabash (430.5). Wheaton (296.5) and Rose-Hulman (276) completed the team scoring.
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Hildegard Behrens, a soprano who was one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan. She was 72.
Jonathan Friend, artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, said Tuesday in an e-mail to opera officials that Behrens felt unwell while traveling to a festival near Tokyo. She went to a Tokyo hospital, where she died of an apparent aneurysm.
Behrens was among the finest actors on the opera stage during a professional career that spanned more than three decades. She made her professional stage debut in Freiburg, Germany, as the Countess in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1971 and made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Giorgetta in Puccini's "Il Tabarro" in 1976.
One of her breakthrough roles came the following year, when she sang the title role in Strauss' "Salome" at the Salzburg Festival in Austria.
She sang 171 performances at the Met, where she appeared until 1999. Her breakthrough there was as Leonore in Beethoven's "Fidelio" under conductor Karl Boehm in 1980, and she was most acclaimed in the late '80s and early '90s for her portrayal of Brunnhilde in the Otto Schenk production of the Ring Cycle.
"She is the finest Brunnhilde of the post-Birgit Nilsson era," Associated Press critic Mike Silverman wrote in 1989. "Though she lacks the overpowering vocal resources of a great Wagnerian soprano, she makes up for that with dramatic intensity."
As a dramatic soprano, she had a Met career that included Elettra in Mozart's "Idomeneo," Isolde in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," Senta in "Die Fliegende Hollander," Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni," Santuzza in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," the title roles in Strauss' "Elektra" and "Salome" and Puccini's "Tosca," and Marie in Berg's "Wozzeck."
Behrens starred in a 1998 L.A. Opera production of "Salome" and performed again with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2001.
Behrens was born in 1937 in the north German town of Varel-Oldenburg. Her parents were both doctors and she and her five siblings studied piano and violin as children. She earned a law degree from the University of Freiburg, where she was also a member of the student choir.