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Dave Lee Travis sexual assault complainant: "I thought he was going to rape me'
A 'petrified' woman has told how she thought she was going to be raped by DJ Dave Lee Travis when she was 15 at a Showaddywaddy concert, a court heard.
The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the former Radio 1 DJ became 'frisky' with her after she was invited into his caravan at the gig on a farm in the late 1970s.
In a videoed police interview played to the court, the woman said she was talking about music with Travis inside the caravan when he offered to sign her poster.
He then 'lunged forward', she said.
"He started snogging my face off," she said. "He got his hand up my shirt and pulled my bra up. He was just all over my b***s. He was so heavy I was trapped in the seat. I could not get up.
"I thought he was going to rape me."
The woman told police Travis then 'suddenly' got up and told her to leave before she hitch-hiked home.
Asked how she felt during the incident, she replied: "Petrified."
Travis, whose real name is David Patrick Griffin, is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault dating back to between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault in 2008.
The 68-year-old, from Buckinghamshire, is accused of assaulting 11 women, one of whom was 15 at the time of the alleged crime.
He denies all the charges.
Going over the evidence again, the witness, who described herself as 'a big girl', said she thought she briefly saw fellow DJ Dave 'Kid' Jensen in Travis's trailer before the alleged incident but could not be sure.
Once inside the trailer, the witness recalled how Travis 'stank' during their meeting, having smelt of alcohol and cigarettes.
"He (Travis) said he had never seen b***s as big as that before and that he would know," the witness said.
"I started feeling very awkward, then he started touching me. He flicked my b***s over my clothing.
"I thought he was going to rape me."
Travis sighed as the woman's interview with police was played to London's Southwark Crown Court.
"He put his hand up my skirt, to my thigh," she said. "I was crying, I was shouting at him to stop – then he did.
"I don't know whether he had a conscience. He stopped and told me I should get dressed. He realised he wasn't going to get anywhere with me."
Travis shook his head repeatedly during the evidence and appeared to mutter something.
The witness described herself as 'naive' at the time of the incident.
"I was a naive 15-year-old, it was my first sexual experience," she said. "I lived on a farm and I didn't have many social skills."
The woman said she had initially lied to her parents in order to walk eight miles with her home-made Showaddywaddy poster and attend the gig.
She told police: "It (the alleged incident) was what I deserved because I told a lie."
The woman said she ran home and hid in her bed after the incident.
She did not tell anybody about it until two weeks before going to the police, as a middle-aged adult, she said.
The woman said she was 'star-struck' by Travis when she first met him as a teenager, but said she now regarded him as 'a disgusting old man – a pervert'.
During cross-examination, Stephen Vullo, defending Travis, said: "I'm going to suggest to you that none of this ever happened. What do you say to that?"
"I'd say that's untrue because it did," she replied.
Giving evidence, former Showaddywaddy lead singer Dave Bartram said 'on regular occasions' the band would be introduced on stage by Top Of The Pops presenters and DJs, including Travis.
Asked whether he could remember the concert in Gloucestershire where Travis allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old girl, Mr Bartram replied: "I can actually recall it, simply because Dave came on stage with the band and proceeded to make a nuisance of himself.
"When Dave came on stage, I'm not sure if he was invited or uninvited, he got on one of the drum kits and proceeded to make a bit of a racket."
Mr Bartram, who told the court he appeared on Top Of The Pops more than 50 times, added that Travis had 'a great presence'.
Travis, who laughed in the dock as Mr Bartram recounted his stage prank, later winked and smiled as the witness left the courtroom.
The court had earlier heard from other women who said they had been abused by Travis.
A headteacher said she 'recoiled' after being indecently assaulted by the DJ at a student gig in Nottingham at the height of his fame.
A former colleague also described how, two decades later, Travis reduced her to tears after allegedly subjecting her to a 'horrible' assault at radio station premises.
Giving evidence behind a curtain, one alleged victim said she was asked to guard the Travis's campervan at Trent Polytechnic in the 1980s because: "He said he didn't trust Nottingham – it was 'a bit of a dive' and he wanted some guards."
She said a few 'guards' were given a badge, which the woman said she wore on her top.
She said: "He made a joke. He took the badge, lifted it, touching my breast, and made a joke about the badge, saying 'Oh, you're securi-titty'. "I recoiled."
The witness said she was later summoned into Travis's campervan as a 'thank-you' from the entertainer, which she assumed would result in being given free Radio 1 t-shirts.
The woman said she became 'rigid with fear' as Travis put one hand on the wall and one around her.
"He came towards me and touched me. I could feel his tongue, he just relaxed. I went under his arm and ran."
The witness, who is now a headteacher, said she would not have come forward had she not seen Travis on television having been arrested in the wake of the Jimmy Savile investigation.
"I remember saying to my husband: 'It will be Dave Lee Travis next, he's got to be next'," she said.
Earlier, a former Chiltern Radio worker told the court she was 'gutted' when the ex-Radio 1 presenter groped her after allegedly hugging her from behind and blowing a raspberry on her face.
The witness said that as Travis went to move his hands away, he did so 'deliberately and brushed over my breast'.
She said she went to the toilet and thought: "Your eyes have filled up with tears."
She added: "I felt really weird. I was confused because I knew it felt horrible."
The woman said she initially saw him as a 'friendly grandad-type', who gave bear hugs.
Mr Vullo, defending Travis, told the court that his client did not remember the alleged incident.
Earlier, Chiltern Radio employee Simon Cliffe told the court he was aware one of Travis's alleged victimswho worked at the station felt 'uncomfortable' around the DJ, but only knew of one formal complaint.
Travis's former managing director at Classic Gold, Colin Wilshire, said Travis – who he referred to as DLT throughout – said Travis ignored his request to leave the complainant alone, heading straight into her office to challenge her.
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Travis was ordered to go home for the day, the court heard.
Questioned by Mr Vullo, Mr Wilshire said Travis eventually left Classic Gold following 'artistic differences' over playlists and his shifts, and not due to the complaint from a female colleague.
Mr Wilshire said he did not perceive the complaint as being 'an allegation of serious sexual assault' at the time.
Travis denies all charges. The trial continues.


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I would frame this one in a second…an amazing shot featuring the lesser photographed Manhattan Bridge.
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Yesterday afternoon I was hanging out at the boys home when Daniel sat down and told Cindy and I that he had just seen a goat have a baby. Actually, he got his words confused and said that he saw "two goats having a baby." It took a few hilarious minutes, but we finally figured out that he had seen two goats being born. Daniel asked to go show us where the goats were, near the clinic, so Cindy and I took a group of the younger boys to go check them out, stopping along the way to get Kaitlyn and my camera.
We were oohing and awing over the cute little goats in the bushes when we began to feel a few rain drops. Then quickly the sky turned dark and a swift wind blew over the neighborhood. We started running to get under shelter (I'm not scared of a little rain, but I didn't want my camera to get wet). I got inside the guest house gate, then peaked through its opening. A stream of parents and children who'd been waiting to enter our feeding program were running and screaming down the street in the drenching rain. When it rains during the feeding program usually we'll do a shorter version- feed the kids, but not have sports, coloring time, worship or a sermon. Today the people knew this rain was different. Erta was taking cover with me and said that people were thinking we were having another earthquake. It may sound ridiculous as an earthquake doesn't usually have massive winds and rain with it, but there is pervasive fear here about earthquakes and unusual weather. Also, many people's homes are tents right now....enough said. I put my camera away, grabbed my hooded jacket, and ran over with Kaitlyn to check on the girls. But not before seeing our big truck parked at the guesthouse with a tree branch lying on top of it.
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The girls were all huddled together underneath the front awning of their house. My suggestions to go inside the house were ignored. Hey, a hurricane is coming, so let's stand outside! A few kids from the feeding program as well as our laundresses and cooks and their children took shelter there as well. Haitians love to sing, so to ease the distress and calm the situation, I suggested to Mari, a cook, that she begin to sing. Many of the children and adults were fervently praying as well. We watched as the storm thrashed around us and held the kids tightly when they screamed during the thunder. To lighten the mood (maybe I am inappropriate during a serious situation, but that's probably my coping mechanism) I began to briefly sing "raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens." As Daphne hid against my chest, I couldn't help thinking of The Sound of Music, my favorite movie, and the scene where the kids hide with Maria during the storm. A couple girls laughed as they remembered watching the movie. A brother came to get his four siblings at the girls home, walking through the door shirtless and shoeless, in boxers.
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Earlier in the day Susette had shared with the kids and I that a team from the states would be coming to spend the afternoon at the feeding program, leading worship and skits. This group is African American and the kids love them. During the storm a couple girls had asked if I thought the team would still come. As the rain and win finally let up, some girls peaked out the door and came running back, shouting, "The American Blacks are here!" Erta, Susette, and others rounded up the feeding program kids from outside, the girls home, and the near by tent cities (which I've heard was pretty much destroyed within minutes). We congregated inside the boys home and the "American blacks" performed skits, shared the bible, danced, sang, and worshiped with the feeding program kids and our kids. It was a beautiful blessing to all the kids and a welcome respite from the fear.
While we were involved in the activities at the boys' home, a team visiting from CA was down in a tent city, repairing some homes (tents). Kaitlyn took an awesome picture of one of the men they were helping, a father of one of our feeding program kids, walking down the street with a machete, taking branches and wood to repair his family's tent.
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At the end of the "American Blacks'" time with the kids, we prayed together for the kids then the parents came to pick up their children. What did these families experience last night, in the cold and in the mud? Please keep the people of Haiti in your prayers, as they wait for the money that was raised to be given out to rebuild Haiti and homes.
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Zuckerberg group seeks its footing
Even the man who transformed social media can get into a messaging mess.
The immigration reform group that will be Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's entry into politics was supposed to launch as early as next week with a lot of fanfare, support and money — but the person leading the effort is already hitting unlike on its launch plan.
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That plan, sent to board members and staff, was written by Joe Green — one of Zuckerberg's Harvard roommates and the man the young billionaire tapped to lead his group. But before the group's unveiling, Green has apologized for the plan's phrasing and several claims which he now says aren't right.
( Also on POLITICO: Business balks at immigration deal)
The prospectus, obtained Thursday by POLITICO, states that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen are founding members of a group named "Human Capital" and details how the technology executives would use their companies to "control the avenues of distribution" for a political message in support of their efforts.
Under a section called "our tactical assets," the prospectus lists three reasons why "people in tech" can be organized into "one of the most powerful political forces."
"1: We control massive distribution channels, both as companies and individuals. We saw the tip of the iceberg with SOPA/PIPA.
"2: "Our voice carries a lot of weight because we are broadly popular with Americans.
"3. We have individuals with a lot of money. If deployed properly this can have huge influence in the current campaign finance environment."
( Also on POLITICO: GOP reaches out to Silicon Valley)
Gates and Andreessen, however, are not yet signed on to the Zuckerberg group, according to a source familiar with its operation. The group will also not be operating under the name "Human Capital," as Green advertised in the prospectus. And they're now denying that the high-tech executives involved will use their companies to promote their message, which could have run them into trouble with broadcasting and campaign finance laws.
After being told the plan had leaked Thursday, Green issued a statement to POLITICO apologizing for the language and inaccuracies in the prospectus.
"Several prominent leaders in the tech community, operating solely as individuals, continue to work on forming an issues advocacy organization that would seek to promote issues such as comprehensive immigration reform and education reform," Green said. "However, some of the information contained in this email is outdated and not representative of the kind of work this organization will perform. Moreover, I regret some of the language in the email was poorly-chosen and could give a misimpression of the views and aspirations of this organization and those associated with it."
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TRUCKEE, Calif. – That advice from Sir Winston really hits the mark. We work hard to be successful. Our careers become our focus, but one thing I have learned is that in the end what really matters is relationships and family. What you do for others.No one is going to stand up at your service and tell your friends how you were the best worker in the office. The lasting stories told will be how you made a difference. What you have done with yourself and for others. When someone tells me they don't get involved because whatever they do won't be enough to make a difference, I quote Betty Reese (whoever she is): "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito." The littlest thing can a difference.I had occasion to hear President Bill Clinton speak earlier this week. No matter your politics or opinion of him, Bill Clinton is dedicating his life to the William J. Clinton Foundation and is helping less fortunate folks around the world.University EndowmentsI read an article by attorney Martin Kimel in the Los Angeles Times, titled "Don't Waste Your Charity on Rich Colleges." Interesting perspective. Kimel's piece describes the university "endowment races that suck scarce philanthropic resources from underfunded charities." Harvard University recently had an endowment of $32 billion, that's Billion. In 2011, the endowments of the 10 richest American universities were worth over $128 billion. Donate LocallyThe point of charitable giving is to benefit society, not to build massive endowments and university facilities to attract famous faculty and enhance the prestige of the university. That's my take anyway.Here's how you make a difference. Donate locally.Universities and large organizations have alumnae and a whole nation to pull from for their charitable dollars. Our local organizations only have a small region to support them. For example, Project MANA has an annual budget of around $300. Believe me, they make a difference. For what they do, you would think they have a budget 10 times that.Sierra Senior Services and Meals on Wheels operate with an annual budget around $350,000. They are lean and effective. Tons of volunteers. Some of these universities have annual fundraising budgets of hundreds of millions. If your heart tells you to give to your alma mater, then by all means do. But if you want to get more "bang for your buck," keep your charitable dollars local.Bang for Your BuckA friend of mine has a policy of only giving within thirty miles of her home. She likes to see her money at work.I remember working with a local woman who wanted to make a donation to help unwed mothers and young girls who never had a chance to go to college. In the end she left all of her considerable assets to the University of Southern California. Like they need it. Her contribution will be a drop in the bucket and will likely never make it to unwed mothers. What a shame, as that money could have benefited young girls in our community. Owners in Lahontan took a different tack. They formed the Lahontan Community Foundation under the wing of the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation and have awarded over $1 million into our local community since 2002. And Martis Camp is sharing its wealth through its Foundation. Local CharitiesOur own Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, started in 1999, controls assets of more than $20 million and has given hundreds of grants totaling $20 million, mostly local – to dozens of worthwhile organizations and causes. $20 million is a staggering number – the result of generous locals and second home owners.Some give for the passion. Others for tax breaks; they save money giving it away. Donating to the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation makes sense, as it works in a wide range of areas of interest. They will find a match for your interest. So if you want to help seniors, TTCF can steer you to Sierra Senior Services. (Disclosure: My wife Marianne is on the Senior's board. I am affiliated with TTCF.)Want to benefit families? Consider the North Tahoe Family Resource Centers in Kings Beach and Truckee. Or the Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe. These nonprofits are on shoestring budgets and focused on their missions. And there are lots more like: Tahoe SAFE Alliance, Kidzone, the Tahoe Forest Health System Foundation, Sierra Nevada Children's Services, the Truckee Donner Land Trust, the Truckee River Watershed Council and the Tahoe Fund. These folks and many more do tremendous work on modest budgets. They make a difference in our community.These nonprofits urgently need our money especially during these hard times. Give locally and change a life – and by doing so – define your own life. Year end is approaching. Jim Porter is an attorney with Porter Simon licensed in California and Nevada, with offices in Truckee and Tahoe City, California, and Reno, Nevada. He was the Governor's appointee to the California Fair Political Practices Commission and McPherson Commission, both involving election law and the Political Reform Act. Jim's practice areas include: real estate, development, construction, business, HOAs, contracts, foreclosures, mediation and other transactional matters. He may be reached at email@example.com or at the firm's website, http://www.portersimon.com.


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Eckdonald lands on DL
TORONTO — I'm not at the ballpark today, but I just received word that both shorstops David Eckstein (strained right hip flexor) and John McDonald (sprained right ankle) have been placed on the 15-day disabled list. Neither infielder is seriously injured, but the Jays can keep running out two men short until they're completely recovered.
For the time being, the Jays have recalled Mighty Joe Inglett from Triple-A Syracuse. I'm told a subsequent move will be coming on Friday. There's been rumblings that the Jays have been scouring the market for a right-handed bat. Robinzon Diaz would've been an option, but he's out 2-3 weeks with an ankle injury all his own.
I'll catch you all from Cleveland tomorrow.
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I made a coment on Esk McDONALD show true grit if anyone wants to read it. how about you gnorman.
I guess the Jays are looking for a big bat I wonder who .
JAYS SCOURING MARKET FOR A RIGHT-HANDED BAT… ithink jordan put that part in there on purpose so we don't jump up on barry bonds
we released FRANK THOMAS FOR A REASON…singing barry would then defeat the purpose and would cause 8 mill gone down the drain…(don't tell me we released him cause of too many at-bats threat…we could let him go later too)
did rolen try to turn a triple into a inside the parker? is that how he got oout?
Right handed bat??? At what position? I can only see it happening at left field or short stop. And that's if only we get that bat in a trade.
Offence out of the rut huh? One 5 run inning doesn't solve all the jays batting woes.
What is wrong with this team they just plain can't hit we need more than just a RHB. we need at least four good bats.
Thats the way to help yourself Litsch.
Those 2, gsumner and garry's GUY love to provoke. You are not allowed on this site to disagree with any of the idiotic comments gsumner makes or it is a straight attack just as he went after you. garry"s GUY comes right to his defence when your comments were very respectable to say the least. I allowed him to provoke and the conversation digressed from there a few weeks ago.
Believe it and I also have no use for Gibbons but gsumner absolutely thinks he could manage the team alot better than a major league manager.
Iwas going to stay home and watch the Jays this weekend but the way they are playing I'm going to go fishing with my son and grandson before I smash my TV.
Me thinks Jason Botts will be a Jay tomorrow.
What team is Botts on.
Was with the Rangers, but you know what I think he's a switch hitter actually so that leaves him out?
They mentioned on sportsnet that it's not via a trade. So think someone who has been disignated for assignment recently or is an unsigned free-agent.
Barry Bonds will be in the lineup in Cleveland tomorrow night.
I hope it's not Ben Broussard from the rangers.
This team needed Camp like a hole in the head tonight we lose..
does anyone know if Towers is playing ball anywhere.
Maybe Jason Michaels from the Indians? He recently got designated for assignment.
How about not driving in a runner at third base with no one out? I think I lost a few hairs tonight.
Get Juan Rivera from the Angels!!!
Oops. Didn't know Michaels was acquired by the Pirates earlier today.
Towers isn't with a team right now . He was with the Rockies but I believe they released him .
The rumours I have heard is it could be Brad Wilkerson who was designated by the Mariners, though he is a left handed hitter . The other one I thought it might be is Jacque Jones who was released by Detroit but again he is a left handed hitter . I can't see them signing a free agent who potentially hasn't played in the majors since last sept , thats 7+ months removed , but with JP you never know .
I sure wish they hadn't released Johnson . He was a sparkplug for this team and he wasn't given a chance to show it this year . Wilkerson has struggled the last few years …..here we go again
Stupid idea I'm sure, but decent hitter who can DH and plays outfield…why not give Snider a sniff at the majors? Who cares if he hits left handed?
Given the experience, it might serve a decent motivational tool for him to crank it up and get here sooner.
Just a thought
Jordan's post said right- handed bat so I assumed the Jays cared but if they are talking about getting Wilkerson then obviously it doesn't matter
It won't be Jason Botts, because he cleared waivers yesterday, and Barry Bonds will NOT be in the line up against Clevland. Even if the Jays do sign him (they won't) he needs at least 2 weeks to be game ready.
Wilkerson would be my guess, because even though he is a Left handed hitter, he hits lefties better.
Another option would be Kenny Loftin, who could also fill your lead off spot if required.
Thanks for the info indigo.
Wilkerson is a waste of skin why not just leave Lind up here and play him until he hits and play Stewart against leftys.
JP is going to bring in another player and try to catch lightning in a bottle again and it never works for him.
I like your pick Kenny Loftin I think he still has a lot to give to this game and would be a good fit for this team.
swagmanjay, they gave Snyder a "sniff" of the majors, and he did horrible.
Any news on who we might be getting?
and Wilkerson
I like the Mench acquisition, not so big on the Wilkerson one though. Mench can be a good bat against lefties and I guess they'll platoon him with Stairs at DH.
They designated Chacin and Santos to make room on the roster.
Yeah forgot about Snyder's september callup last year. My bad. Wonder if Halladay flinched when he heard about Mench signing. I like Mench for some pop, but both he and Wilkerson are streaky. Knowing JP's luck with retreads they'll both be released or playing AAA by the end of the month.
Garry, i like the fact that J.P. has tried these low risk "hoping for lightning in a bottle" moves. It has hasn't worked yet, you're right. However when the guy is at or near a budget it's nice to know he's still trying to improve the team. You and I might not always agree with the moves he makes but you can't say that he doesn't try the old "change for the sake of change" philosophy. I don't know about you but I think there is something to that.
I like your post very funny.
At least the Doc. wont have to worry about getting hit again, I guess their first metting will be funny.
I'm not against JP trying to improve the team but why not sign good middle of the road players instead of wasting money on guys like Thomas and paying Eckstein 4.5 mil. for one year and Burnett now he has to chase lightning in a bottle.
Yea why wouldnt we just pick up Mench? Because now we are going to have a plattoon of Stewart/Mench/Wilkerson. Thats not that much playing for them all. If we just signed Mench, and somebody got injured then we just call up Lind again.
I don't think these two players put together are worth one good player, I can't remember which one but one of them is a RF, We sent a better player Inglet down for one of them???????. What we need is a shortstop who plays like Rolen. JP stop wasting money on garbage and sign two more good players one in left and a shortstop that can hit you have a lot of junk to trade or do you????.
I'm sure uncle Ted will open up the wallet for good players not garbage,If you keep this up you can pack your bags ADIOS.


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ABC's "Once Upon a Time" and "Revenge" Build on Sunday
Although airing a mix of first-run and repeat programming against all-original competition on CBS (with the Amazing Race opener) and Fox, ABC was competitive for the Sunday night lead in Adults 18-49. It was essentially a 3-way tie for #1 on the night, with each net drawing the same share and just a tenth of a rating point separating the three.
Please Note: On the holiday weekend Sunday, overall Adult 18-49 TV usage levels were down by -6% from the prior week (38.3 vs. 40.6).
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At 8pm opposite the season premiere of CBS' Amazing Race, ABC's Once Upon a Time was up week to week in Total Viewers (+6%) and Adults 18-49 (+5%). From 8-9pm, Once Upon a Time ran neck-and-neck with Amazing Race for the Adult 18-49 lead (pacing within 1-tenth of a rating point and tied in audience share) and won the hour with key Women (W18-34/W18-49).
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Comic-Con 2011 is in full swing and Marvel is out promoting their epic superhero team-up movie event, The Avengers. The first footage from the film premiered at the end of Captain America today, to an enthusiastic fan response (read our First Avenger review to see how that film turned out).
Avengers promotional items are showing up on the Comic-Con floor, and now Marvel is releasing character posters for each of the heroes who will be assembling next summer.
The Avengers roster consists of Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). There are several rumors pointing to The Avengers facing an alien threat in the film, but for now, all we know officially is that this team of superheroes is coming together for one big, Earth-shaking battle. 'Nuff said.
You can check out the posters in the gallery at the top of this article.
The posters do a good job of conveying the backstory of the individual characters, as established by their respective movies. Poor Hawkeye Nick Fury and Black Widow - their posters are noticeably vacant of backstory - but hey, at least they have the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, and Quinjet, right? :-P
It's good to get yet another look at the modern-era Captain America costume, which looks slimmer and overall better than the bulky WWII outfit used in The First Avenger. The helmet in particular is of a much-improved design. The Hulk design is...interesting. There is definitely more of a classic movie monster vibe to the look of the jade giant, as opposed to the titan elemental design of the first Hulk film or the more logical design of the second. Can't wait to see how it plays onscreen.
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One big question that has been circling these Avengers images and posters is the design of Iron Man's armor. In Iron Man 2 Tony Stark of course "invented a new element" which saved his life by giving him a stable and inexhaustible energy source to power the small arc reactor that keeps his injured heart beating. That new power source was of course in the shape of a triangle, which made Iron Man's Mark VI armor chestplate of triangular shape as well. Obviously in this poster we can see that Shellhead's armor sports a circular reactor once again, which raises all kinds of questions about what new changes in armor and power source Tony Stark will go through in the film.
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U.S. soldiers' options limited to protect Afghans from Taliban
BERMEL, Afghanistan — The Taliban took shelter in the U.S.-built school they blew up last year before they began the 400-foot climb, rockets in hand, to the American bastion on the hill.
Wrapped in space blankets — thin foil sheets familiar to campers — to avoid detection by the thermal imaging cameras in the U.S. outpost, they zigzagged up the escarpment. Troops at the base said insurgents had come right up on the helicopter landing zone, fired their rockets, then disappeared "like ninjas into the night."
Fortress Margha, with its grenade launchers and mortars sticking out from behind sandbags and bulletproof windows on three watchtowers, is a safe redoubt for the American troops stationed there. Within its walls, soldiers play ice hockey and video games that imitate guerrilla warfare.
For the Afghans who live in a medieval world of mud homes with interlocking walls in the valley below, however, reality is a reign of terror.
Taliban fighters rule the day and the night in the Bermel district, using threats and atrocities to control the civilian population, Afghans in the valley told a visiting reporter in interviews over two weeks. Accompanied by Arab and Chechen advisers, they behead civilians or sever their hands to force their cooperation. One of the latest Taliban edicts is a ban on cutting trees, so that insurgents can hide and lay ambushes for foreign troops.
From a distance, the U.S. base in Margha, occupied by a platoon from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division out of Fort Richardson, Alaska, is a monument to a risk-averse, shorthanded American strategy in Afghanistan.
That could change with the arrival of an additional 17,500 American combat troops and of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a hard-charging special operations man, to replace Gen. David McKiernan, who'd been faulted for failing to implement counterinsurgency strategy quickly enough.
The small U.S. base can be defended against as many as a thousand insurgents at once, confident American soldiers said. That sums up their dilemma, however: The fortress protects American troops, but it does little to help win a guerrilla war that's now in its eighth year and about to enter another violent summer.
The faltering U.S. and NATO efforts in eastern Afghanistan have in effect surrendered the countryside — village after village — to insurgent bands, many of them criminal gangs but some of them with weaponry and the backing of al Qaida.
The American troops descend from their bastion only on occasion, and there's no one to protect Afghan civilians from Taliban fighters, who collect a "zakat," or religious tax, from many residents in Bermel.
Living apart from the citizens they're charged with protecting isn't the only challenge to American forces. Afghans complain about errant U.S. artillery fire, which causes civilian casualties, and the constant infiltration of guerrilla bands from Pakistan.
If the goal of counterinsurgency strategy is to persuade the local population that the U.S. and its Afghan fighting partners are protecting them, it isn't working in this district, which sits opposite the al Qaida haven of South Waziristan in Pakistan.
Osama bin Laden declared "war on America" in 1998 at an al Qaida training camp not far from Margha in the neighboring province of Khost, and many Western analysts think that he's now hiding just across the border in Pakistan.
By night, the Taliban set up illegal checkpoints, where they rob people, residents said. If the residents are working with the Americans in any way, they're threatened or killed.
"They will take a person away, behead him and make a video, and sell it in the main bazaar in Bermel," an Afghan who goes by the radio name Nick Tajik said on the U.S.-financed "Radio Bermel." The radio is run out of FOB Boris, a nearby forward operating base that also functions as company headquarters for the 3-509.
Announcers at the small 50-megawatt station, which sometimes runs American military statements, said that one of their avid listeners, who sent in musical tapes and poetry, was executed recently behind a wall less than a mile from a U.S. military base.
Two announcers said they were shocked at the killing but that the Taliban had committed so many similar atrocities — "tens," they said — that it was hard to keep track of them all.
The American military, however, has only limited knowledge of Taliban atrocities in the Bermel district.
Lt. Col. Peter Minalga, 45, who commands the 3-509, which is deployed in parts of Paktika province, said he was aware of Taliban atrocities but that documenting them was difficult. Intelligence officers said that their unit, which arrived here two months ago, didn't discuss Taliban tactics with the last U.S. infantry units based in Bermel.
The American military doesn't post an infantry squad in the bazaar in Margha, and the U.S. military's own force-protection regulations often prevent junior commanders from leading squads of U.S. troops to protect Afghan citizens.
"The Taliban has finances and more tools than we do," said Islamuddin, another announcer on Radio Bermel. A mailbox for Radio Bermel, welded to a pole near the district market, has been destroyed at least five times. Sometimes, the would-be vandals just toss matches into the box to set the letters alight.
On an American foot patrol some 20 miles south of Margha, an Afghan who goes by the single name of Marshan begged American troops for protection.
"I've been here for two months. All my life I lived in Margha, but I can't go back because they will kill me," said Marshan, a former policeman.
An older man, leaning against a mud wall, sighed when he heard Marshan. "People want protection, but they have none," he said.
On another patrol just outside Margha in an 18-ton Mine Resistant Armored Personnel Carrier, artillery support Spc. Jesse Jones, 22, of San Bernardino, Calif., said the Taliban and their al Qaida associates were better guerrilla warriors than those he'd seen in Iraq.
"The enemy attacks are sophisticated and well-coordinated," he said. "They fight you longer and harder than the insurgents in Iraq. At the same time, when you pursue, they just disappear and blend back into the population."
Jones said that in a half-dozen attacks on his "route clearance" convoy — manned mostly by National Guardsmen from Virginia and California — insurgents had destroyed several hundred thousand dollars' worth of U.S. equipment. He added that his platoon hadn't been able to confirm that it had killed a single Taliban fighter.
In a subsequent sweep of Margha intended to capture known Taliban fighters who were living in the town, two American platoons entered the town as a blocking force. Two platoons of the 450 Afghan soldiers who are based at FOB Boris also took part.
On a hill overlooking the main market, Army National Guard Lt. Robert Bejarano, a city planner from Fresno, Calif., called for his platoon to halt Afghans on foot and in pickups as they rushed from the market.
Bejarano chuckled when he heard a radio intercept from an insurgent. "They are getting close," the voice said in Pashto. "There are three flowers in that vase." Bejarano said he thought that the insurgents meant that the Taliban had three soldiers in a house somewhere near where the Afghan soldiers were searching. No Taliban were found, however.
"If we want to get a grip on this town, we had better post American soldiers right down in the market," said Bejarano, waving toward the stalls.
Before the 3-509 arrived at Margha, the 101st Airborne Division had a platoon based here. Several children were accidentally killed by U.S. firepower, U.S. military officials in Paktika said, adding that the killings had become a permanent source of tension. Two American soldiers with the 101st were killed by a mortar round that hit their jeep as it as they defended a supply helicopter just outside the base last year.
U.S.-backed Afghan security forces from faraway tribes have added to the tensions. Some of them are from a far northern province that borders China. Others are from the province's small population of Tajiks, who've vowed revenge on their Pashtun neighbors because of atrocities committed when the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan.
"The local people say that the security forces insult them, insisting they have 'Taliban sandals' and tearing off their turbans," radio announcer Islamuddin said. "Sometimes they just cut their clothes with a knife and laugh."
He said that his station had attempted to expose the story by confronting the district sub-governor and the police chief.
A U.S. military intelligence officer working in the district said he was well aware of intimidation by Afghan security forces, in particular a local commander.
"When you (the United States) don't do counterinsurgency well, it is important to make others more afraid of you than the next guy can," the official said of the local warlord, whom American forces have come to rely on. The officer couldn't be named because he wasn't authorized to speak to a reporter.
"The other option when you don't do counterinsurgency well is to intimidate the population," he said. "But when it comes to that, you are really no better than the people you are trying to get rid of."
(Smucker is a McClatchy special correspondent.)
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Egypt blasts, clashes kill 16 ahead of uprising's anniversary
Attacks fuel fears of an increasing militant insurgency
A truck bomb blasted the main security headquarters in Cairo on Friday, one of a string of four bombings in the Egyptian capital within a 10-hour period. The most significant attack yet in the city fuelled a furious backlash against the Muslim Brotherhood amid rising fears of a militant insurgency.
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In the hours after the blast, angry residents — some chanting for the "execution" of Brotherhood members — joined police in clashes with the group's supporters holding their daily street protests against the government. Smoke rose over Cairo from fires, and fighting around the country left 14 more people dead.
The mayhem on the eve of the third anniversary of 2011's once hopeful revolution pointed to the accelerating, dangerous slide Egypt has taken since last summer's military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi: A mounting confrontation between the military-backed government and Islamist opponents amid the escalating militant violence.
Saturday, the anniversary of the start of the 18-day uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, raised the potential for new violence, as both military supporters and the Islamists vowed to take to the streets with rival rallies.
After Friday's blasts, interim Preisident Adli Mansour vowed to "uproot terrorism," just as the government crushed a militant insurgency in the 1990s. The state "will not show them pity or mercy," he said. "We ... will not hesitate to take the necessary measures."
That could spell an escalation in the crackdown that the government has waged against Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood ever since his July 3 ouster.
Thousands of Islamists have already been arrested and hundreds killed, with authorities accusing the group of being behind militant violence. The Brotherhood, which allied with some radical groups while in power, denies the claim, saying it is aimed only to justify the drive to eliminate it as a rival. The crackdown has expanded to silence other forms of dissent, with arrests of secular activists critical of the military, security forces and the new administration.
For activists, that has raised deep concerns over a return of a police state despite the government's promises of democracy.
"Execution for Morsi and his leaders," one man shouted through a megaphone to an angry crowd that gathered outside the Cairo security headquarters hit in Friday's first bombing. A woman held up a picture depicting the Brotherhood as sheep, screaming, "Morsi is the butcher and el-Sissi will slaughter him."
A 'vile terrorist act'
The day's violence began with the 6:30 a.m. blast at the capital's security headquarters, located on downtown Bab el-Khalq Square. Security camera footage that became public showed a white pick-up truck pulling up the building's gate. A man gets out of it, jumps into another car and drive off. Two policemen inspect the truck for a moment, then return into the headquarters, and two minutes later, it explodes.
'It's not worth it anymore to stay here. Every day I ride the metro and go past here,- Abdullah el-Sayyed, Cairo resident
The powerful blast ripped down a main avenue that at any other time of day would have been packed with cars and pedestrians — knocking out windows of shops for more than 500 metres. The eight-storey headquarters' facade was shattered, with air conditioning units left dangling out of broken windows, and a crater was blasted into the pavement, as deep as a standing man.
The explosion also wrecked Cairo's renowned Islamic Arts Museum, directly across the street, blasting out its windows, causing ceilings to collapse, smashing display cases of porcelain and glasswork and breaking water pipes that sprayed over manuscripts. Museum experts said key pieces in its unique collection of Islamic artifacts were damaged.
Abdullah el-Sayyed, a 26-year-old salesman who lives behind the headquarters, said he was woken up by the blast, followed by heavy gunfire by frantic policemen. "They were devastated. They were firing their guns in panic as if to call for rescue," he said.
He said he plans to return to his home village in Fayoum south of Cairo because he no longer feels safe. "It's not worth it anymore to stay here. Every day I ride the metro and go past here," he said.
After the blast, several police officers sat on the sidewalk weeping outside the building, as ambulances rushed in, with a body nearby on the ground under a sheet. Some in the crowd of residents who gathered looked distraught at the damage.
Security officials later said three suspects had been identified as behind the security headquarters attack, saying they belonged to the Brotherhood and "extremist groups." The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
About two hours after the Bab el-Khalq blast, attackers threw a bomb at a police car near a metro station in the Dokki district on the other side of the Nile River, killing one person and wounding eight others, the prosecutors' office investigating the attack said.
A third, smaller blast targeted the Talbiya police station about four kilometres from the famous Giza Pyramids but caused no casualties, security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Rallies planned for Saturday
Hours after the attacks, the Brotherhood held daily protests that they have vowed to step up ahead of Saturday's anniversary. Their marches quickly turned into clashes with police, joined by residents furious at the Brotherhood, in several districts of Cairo and in cities across the country. The Health Ministry said 14 people were killed in the violence.
As police drove back from clashes with Brotherhood supporters in the capital's Giza district in the afternoon, they were hit by the day's fourth bombing — a roadside explosive that killed one person and wounded four others.
Police and soldiers have been targeted by multiple attacks in previous months. In December, a suicide car bombing blasted the main security headquarters of a Nile Delta province, killing 16 people. The interior minister survived an attempted car-bombing assassination attempt in Cairo in September.
An al-Qaeda-inspired group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or the Champions of Jerusalem, has claimed responsibility for most attacks, saying they aimed to avenge the killings of Morsi's supporters in the post-coup crackdown. On Thursday, the group issued an online audio statement warning police and soldiers to defect or else face new attacks.
The Islamist alliance grouping the Brotherhood and its allies condemned Friday's attacks and blamed them on the Interior Ministry, saying it wanted to turn the public against the Islamists.
It vowed to push ahead with protests Saturday, saying, "the revolution will continue down its peaceful track to bring down the military coup."
Supporters of the government are planning giant rallies of their Saturday to show their backing for the military — and to call for army chief el-Sissi to run for president. While some may be too frightened by Friday's bombings to join the rallies, anger over the bloodshed could bring others out.


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Guns. It sometimes seems that we can't really talk about anything in American life without somehow, at some point, referencing the nation's enduring obsession with guns. After the unspeakable horror of Sandy Hook (and the Wisconsin Sikh temple massacre, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Jared Lee Loughner's 2011 slaughter in Tuscon, Chicago's terrifying spike in gun-related violence in 2012 and on and on), the national conversation around gun rights and gun control has assumed an urgency that at times verges on desperation.
What the hell, everyone seems to be asking, can we do about the endless killing?
The numbers related to gun violence in the land of the free are, of course, deeply chilling. More than 8,500 Americans were murdered by guns (or rather, by killers wielding guns) in 2011, according to FBI data. Of those, 565 were under the age of 18; 119 were kids 12 or younger. Meanwhile, according to at least one study, the annual number of deaths in America by gunfire is likely to exceed that of traffic fatalities by 2015. Wherever one comes down on the gun debate, most sane people can agree that those sort of statistics are a national disgrace and . . . well, insane.
But there are literally tens of millions of Americans who own and shoot guns entirely within the letter and spirit of the law. Hunting, for example, is a pastime and a rite of passage in countless communities around the U.S., and the vast majority of hunters — men and women, boys and girls — are not taking down deer and ducks and bears and doves with slingshots, or with bows and arrows. They're using rifles and shotguns — as they have for generations.
Six decades ago, in its March 26, 1956, issue, LIFE magazine published a remarkable series of photos that accompanied an article titled, "Drawing a Bead on Safety." Here, in hopes of providing at least a bit more context and a small measure of perspective on the nation's gun debate, LIFE revisits those images and that article. After all, the central point of the current discussion around guns is how to make communities safer. Assuming that shotguns, at the very least, will likely be with us for a while, and that families and friends will continue to hunt together for the foreseeable future, lessons in how to shoot what one is hunting, rather than blasting oneself or one's companions, will always have a necessary place in our gun-happy culture.
As LIFE put it in "Drawing a Bead on Safety" all those years ago (citing a statistic that is still appalling today):
In 1954 more than 550 U.S. children under 15 were killed in accidents involving the careless handling of firearms, five of them in lake County, Indiana. [In 2010, 606 people were killed by "accidental discharge of firearms," according to the CDC. — Ed.] This situation shocked Indiana Conservation Officer Rod Rankin, who decided to offer a course in gun safety to any interested child in the county. In the past year 2,500 children from 6 years on, with the approval of their parents, have taken him up on it.
Rankin stresses two things: never point as gun at anybody, even in play, and always check immediately to see if the gun is loaded . . . Rankin is glad to answer routine questions such as "How fast and far does a bullet go?" but tries to discourage ones like "Have you ever shot anyone?" and "If you shoot a man in the head how long does it take him to die?"
Some people think Rankin is starting the kids on firearms too young. But the National Rifle Association points out that four states now permit gun safety courses in grade school and says, "The earlier a kid learns to respect a gun and what not to do with it the better chance natural curiosity won't get him in trouble."
Love or hate the NRA -- and no one, it seems, is indifferent toward the organization -- logic that stresses education and safety around firearms is something that pretty much all of us can get behind. Isn't it?
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.


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Pittsburgh once conjured images of "hell with the lid off." Today, the city at the forks of the Ohio is a shining, modern metropolis that leads the way in bioengineering, medicine, and high technology. And this year, the city is celebrating! Pittsburgh 250 is a year-long commemoration of the naming of the city by General John Forbes in 1758 — and it's a party like you've never seen before. Champion pro sports teams, a host of cultural amenities, and the first T. Rex fossils ever discovered mean that the Steel City has something to enchant everybody.


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"I know advisors are anxious" about Charles Schwab Corp.'s announced plans to institute a franchise-like model to supplement its existing retail branch advice offerings, says Bernie Clark, head of Schwab Advisor Services.
Clark maintains, though, that "most of our advisors have grown their minimums to where those people"—the mass-affluent clients that Schwab believes would take advantage of the franchise model—wouldn't be seeking a Schwab-affiliated RIA's services anyway.
"We understand the sensitivity," Clark said in a Thursday interview with AdvisorOne, taking a break from a gathering of Schwab-affiliated advisors in Colorado, but characterized the Independent Branch Services program as "a pure retail play." CEO Walt Bettinger had previously mentioned the program to securities analysts and it was formally announced on June 6.
Those advisors' concerns are partly centered, Clark said, on "the quality of the people we'll be hiring for this," but argued that "crossover will be small; some advisors are already in competition with our branches now and will remain so. Walt [Bettinger] is committed to this, and we think it will be successful. It's a branch expansion plan—we have to grow branches."
Clark was echoing comments made by Andrew Salesky, a Schwab senior VP who is in charge of the Independent Branch Services program. In an interview with AdvisorOne's John Sullivan on June 7, Salesky (left) said that he had been "pleasantly surprised at the level of support we've received from our own branch managers, as well as our independent advisor partners on the Schwab Advisor Services platform."
Asked to comment, Clark said that "Andrew and I spend a full hour to 90 minutes each week to understand" how the program will work, and that "Walt [CEO Bettinger] and I talk frequently" on the subject as well. The independent branches will use "centralized strategies" in providing advice, and "will look like any other branch that we have, except smaller. They will be in the mass affluent space."
Just as in the existing Schwab retail branches, certain clients in the independent branches may well refer clients to the Schwab Advisor Network, the custodian's referral program. Clark said some advisors have already "inquired about becoming part of this," and suggested that with the current "regulatory headwinds, there will be some interest" from existing Schwab RIAs.
As for what he thinks about the state of the advisor market and those advisors that Schwab serves, Clark said, "My own intuition is that this will be a different decade." Schwab itself, he says, "has done a good job on helping clients be more demanding" in terms of service capabilities and product selection, to name just a few, but that "we're going to have to provide services that are more segmented" to the advisors it serves, especially family offices.
"Regulation is standing on top" of all the issues that advisors face, and that "the market is going to reward those who are more dynamic in the regulatory environment," in which "it's not just Dodd Frank—that's just the start. Will an SRO come into play? Who really knows what state regulation will mean," Clark said. Advisors themselves will need to be "dynamic to deal with that, and we will need to be dynamic in dealing with [Schwab's advisor] clients."
Clark is interested in the "ecosystem that follows advisors," sees a new version of outsourcing as
vital to advisors' success, and predicts that there will be more outsourcing opportunities for entrepreneurial firms, especially in technology but also in other areas. These are, and will be, "purpose-built companies," such as HighTower Advisors or Black Diamond, that, responding to "all the capital in this business" exist "for one reason—to serve advisors."
He points to Schwab Advisor Services' initiatives in CRM software. "The fact that we have Microsoft and SalesForce.com working with us" shows that those "big players want some room on the shelf—they're interested in the space." He said SAS' business consulting group "will be spending more time with advisors"—focusing on areas like marketing, technology, operations—" the kinds of things you have to think about on outsourcing."
As for the overall state of advisors, Clark belies that "there will be consolidation for sure; the bigger firms will be aggressive," with many of those bigger firms looking to have a nationwide presence. Many of Schwab's advisor clients "may have great practices but may not be scalable," particularly with the "bar rising" on everything from technology to regulation.
He said Schwab already does "a lot of introductions" between client firms who are looking to either buy, sell or merge their practices to achieve that greater scale. "We're looking for ways to help that process more systemically," though not via an online matchmaking service, but perhaps through Schwab serving as "an integration engine for smaller firms."


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Elijah Teague and his family have been enumerated in many different ways, including Teay, Teag, Tegue and Teague. I am spelling Teague in this manner because it is the spelling I have in some family papers.
Elijah was the son of Wymer (Wimer, Winer, etc.) Teague and Meleta, possibly Lamar or LaMar. Elijah was born in Taney County, Missouri. In many online family trees this county is listed as Ganey County; however there never was a Ganey County in Missouri.
Elijah married Eliza Tuley on 21 Dec 1965 in Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana. Elijah and Eliza had six children.
William Andrew Teague (1866 IN to after 1940) married Mary Ann Cornelison and they had 10 children I believe.
Mary Olive Teague (1871-1906) first married Daniel Reese and later married Jacob Henry Severs. She died after giving birth in 1906. More detailed information about her is on her own blog page.
Emma Teague (1874 IN to after 1880).
Mattie Teague (1879 KS – after 1880)
James Charles Teague (1881 MO-1964 KS) – married Ida Mae Hooten about 1919 and they had two sons.
John Franklin Teague (1889 AR-1939 KS) married Ella Decker about 1918. I don't believe they had any children.
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Computerworld Australia is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. We most recently spoke to Brad Cox, the man behind everyone's favourite Apple-flavoured language – Objective-C. Make sure to check out The A to Z of programming languages index to find them all.
This week, we take a look at the pre-cursor to Objective-C and the foundation of much of modern programming today: Smalltalk-80. One of the men behind the language, Alan Kay, is credited not only with helping to develop the language, but also the invention of object-oriented programming as a concept, and even inventing a personal computer concept that has eerie similarities to the iPad.
Smalltalk-80 was one of several Smalltalk languages Kay helped to shape while at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre, now known simply as PARC. The languages focussed on personal computing – a topic Kay still feels strongly about – and here he expands on how the work came about, the state of innovation in the modern era and the love for education he continues to hold.
Alan, you're credited with inventing the phrase "object-oriented programming (OOP)". Did the concept exist at all at the time?
I did make up this term (and it was a bad choice because it under-emphasized the more important idea of message sending). Part of the idea existed (in several systems). I could see that a more comprehensive basis could be made by going all the way to thinking of efficient whole virtual machines communicating only by messages. This would provide scaling, be a virtual version of what my research community, ARPA-IPTO [The Information Processing Techniques Office at the US Department of Defense's research facility] was starting to do with large scale networking, and also would have some powerful "algebraic" properties (like polymorphism).
Why do you think messaging was more important than object-oriented programming in Smalltalk-80?
[Marshall] McLuhan said that most people can only experience the present in terms of the past. So "new" gets turned into "news". If it can't, for most people, "new" is rejected unless there is no other way. Otherwise the new is filtered down into news. One of the pieces of news in OOP is that you can simulate data (in what are called "abstract data types"), and this is sometimes useful to do, but it is not the essence in any way of object oriented design.
C++ was very popular because it had a familiar (bad) syntax, and you didn't have to learn to do OOP in order to feel au courant.
Real OOP design is very different than the previous "data-structure-and-procedure" style. And it is also true that none of the Smalltalks were really great for this either, though it was at least possible to think it and do it.
Do you think "real OOP design" was ever achieved? Is it entirely necessary anymore?
I think "real design" in terms of protected and interchangeable modules to make highly scalable systems has not been achieved yet, and is desperately needed. However, Smalltalk at its best was only a partial solution. For example, by the end of the 70s I was writing papers about why we should be "pulling" rather than "pushing", and this was a return to some of the pattern directed stuff I had liked from Carl Hewitt in the 60s.
The difference was that I thought of the "pulling" as a kind of universal retrieval mechanism or "call by need". This was influenced by forward inferencing (in PLANNER and OPS5), by the recent invention of spreadsheets (which I really loved), and a little later by Gelernter's invention of LINDA. All of these provided ways of asking/telling the environment of a module what external resources it needed to do its job. I wrote about this in the September 1984 issue of Scientific American and in other papers at the time.


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After talking their currency down 20 percent over the past four months, Japanese policymakers have suddenly gone silent as the yen halts its dramatic fall. Why?
Japan watchers give two possible reasons for this silence. It could be because of heightened international criticism over Japan's verbal intervention to weaken the yen and second the policymakers may be waiting to see what impact the currency's rapid weakening is having on the economy.
"We're not seeing the direct, verbal attacks on the yen anymore and that is important for the markets," said David Mann, head of regional research at Standard Chartered in Singapore, adding that the pace of depreciation in the yen was likely to slow as a result.
After its rapid decline the yen has regained some lost ground – it is up 2 percent from a 3-1/2 year low of 96.70 per dollar hit on March 12.
"It is an important point that the yen has weakened 20 percent, so it could be that there's now a wait-and-see approach to what the impact of that is, while being aware that they [Japanese officials] can't push the yen too far without attracting attention from policymakers around the world," Mann added.
The yen's slide against major currencies came amid expectations of aggressive monetary easing and a drive by Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to revive a stagnant economy.
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hi. i'm hoping someone might recommend books, movies and games set in space that have a sort of gritty, industrial feel. i'd like some consideration to the science part of science fiction, though i don't mind some corner cutting in this department.
alien comes to mind. the style elements i'm talking about are gradually subtracted over the course of the alien movies until they're nearly removed from resurrection.
i'd really appreciate anything you could turn me on to.
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When Kinder Morgan Inc.'s chief executive announced a $44 billion deal to consolidate four related pipeline companies, he stressed the benefits for shareholders, including increased dividends from the surviving company.
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Should Colorado send a political message via a beetle-killed Capitol Christmas tree?
Can Colorado draw appropriate attention to the beetle epidemic that has overwhelmed the region's forests by sending a mature, green tree to the nation's capital for use as the official Capitol Christmas tree?
Or might we — and, more importantly, our forests — finally capture the interest of unconcerned Washington bureaucrats by sending a dead, red tree to Washington, D.C., to illustrate a phenomenon that has spread across the West at an unprecedented rate for more than a decade?
Beetles have destroyed more than 3.2 million acres of lodgepole pine and spruce in the state since 1996, according to the Colorado State Forest Service. The figure for the Western U.S. is more than 40 million acres. The infestation brings increased risk of wildfire as well as risks to watersheds and outdoor users.
And yet, as The Post's Allison Sherry reported this morning, Colorado foresters are busy searching for the "perfect" tree to grace the Capitol.
It has to be at least 65 feet tall and of handsome shape, round in the middle and small and nicely pointed at the top. It can't have any gaping Charlie Brown holes or random dead branches. It needs to be a hearty thing, with all of its needles and free of illness, so it can survive in a water diaper on the back of a Mack truck for almost 60 days and still be attractive for the masses.
"It's subjective, you know?" said Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall. "There is no perfect tree. Well, there might be, actually. But we want it to look good. It's a gift from our state; it draws attention to our forests at their best."
Is drawing attention to our forests at their best what Colorado really needs when things are this bad?
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There are ways that almost anyone can have beautiful skin they can be proud of; providing you are willing to put in the time for your skin care on a regular basis you should see some beneficial results. Part of the problem with Western women is the need for immediate results, always expecting the cosmetic surgeon to save the day using invasive procedures that often end in failure. The best thing about modern beauty care products other than their cost is the fact they are generally natural so cannot harm the person who is using them.
In the past these beauty care products might have had a poor image being confined to anti-aging lotions and cold creams. Today some of these products are among the most important available to help make the skin look young and healthy. With all the hard work our skin has to put up with, the least we can do is look after it.
The first step in skin care is making sure your skin is clean as pollution like dust, bacteria and make-up all take their toll, so the skin must be clean. This is done by a gentle massage routine using the cleanser on a cotton pad, finally rinsed off with warm water.
Each person's skin has its own pH balance and if you use a toner once you have cleansed your skin, it will re-establish your natural PH balance. To reduce the number of wrinkles and help make your skin soft and supple, use moisturizing creams or lotions once you have finished with the skin toner. Moisturizing also has the added bonus of locking in the moisture that can be lost without its use, so do not skimp on this beauty care product.
Once or twice weekly you should treat your skin with an exfoliant or natural peel to remove dead skin cells and to deep cleanse your skin as part of you skin care routine. It is important to remove all traces of the peel or exfoliant so you will need to cleanse the skin and then tone and moisturize as normal.
For those people that suffer with puffy or baggy skin below the eyes, formulated beauty care product creams are able to help alleviate this problem making the skin much suppler and improving its elasticity. Often forgotten, water is an important aspect that provides many beneficial properties to help the skin, like hydration and removing unwanted toxins. It is not a good idea to forget the important role our skin plays in our overall health and of course how we look so taking care of it is not just about vanity.


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Commuijicatioti iri Otganizatioi\s
by Richard Wallen, Ph.D.
The channels of communication within an organization
are comparable to the nervous system in the
human body. The nervous system does not perform
any work; it transmits information from one portion of
the body to another. The circulatory system actually
conveys life-giving oxygen and other substances to the
organs, transferring energy rather than information. The
nervous system is, of course, the primary basis for the
coordination of the different organ systems. Destruction
of nerve fibers can cause a sensory loss, such as blindness,
or a loss of motion (paralysis). So too, within
organizations communication failure can mean failure
to get work done, to pay bills, or to meet promised
The phrase "good communication" is commonly
used in at least two senses: It can mean that a person
has received some message from another accurately
and understands it as the sender intended it. Or, it can
mean that two people are sending and receiving the


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During President Barack Obama's Weekly Address, he expressed that, "Latin America represents an incredible opportunity for the United States, especially when it comes to my top priority as President: creating good, middle-class jobs… Right now, over 40 percent of our exports go to the Americas."
As part of the Obama administration's continued work to promote exports and strengthen the U.S. economy, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker unveiled "Look South," a new initiative aimed specifically at increasing U.S. trade with Latin American economies with whom the U.S. has free trade agreements (FTA).
Look South is part of the Commerce Department's "Open for Business Agenda," and supports President Obama's National Export Initiative by encouraging the expansion of export markets. Minority business enterprises (MBEs) are uniquely positioned to benefit from the Look South effort, which will help them expand to new export markets and generate more revenue. MBEs are twice as likely to export compared to non-minority firms, more than three times as likely to generate 100 percent of all their sales from exports, and are better able to expand abroad because of linguistic and cultural ties to a region. View Minority-Owned Firms Lead the Nation in Exporting Fact Sheet
More than half of all America's free trade agreements are in Latin America. The FTA partners have shown increased demands for U.S. products, as well as stable and growing business environments. The 11 FTA partners in Latin America include: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic , El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru.
Given the FTAs, doing business in these rapidly growing Latin American markets is now easier than ever. Under these FTAs, U.S. firms can enjoy benefits such as:
*Low or zero tariff rates for exported products into these markets
*Improved business environment for services and government procurement
*Reduced market access barriers
*Forecasted economic growth in these markets
Reports show that 40 percent of all American exports are to Latin America, hence why the region is among the best U.S. trading partner. For example, Mexico is our second-largest trading partner, with U.S. exports to the country reaching in excess of $2 billion in 2012.
For more information, visit the Look South web portal www.export.gov/looksouth, a Look South fact sheet, or e-mail email@example.com.
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