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Tech writer R. Colin Johnson thinks so and has laid out 5 apps that could push gyros into the limelight. Colin has been attending MEMS Executive Congress for a couple of years now, so it's no surprise that some of the really cool MEMS apps discussed there have made it onto his list.
"Gyroscopes have already proved themselves in the inertial guidance systems for aircraft, ships, spacecraft and ballistic missiles, but their use in consumer devices in 2010 will make gyroscopes a part of the common vernacular."
See the full list and the rest of Colin's article here: http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Technology-For-Change/Five-Apps-That-Will-Make-2010-the-Year-of-the-Gyroscope/
Colin also frequently writes about MEMS on NextGenLog, his blog about next generation electronics and technologies.
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Snowden's nightmare comes true
Edward Snowden's nightmare may be coming true.
Not exile; not the danger of imprisonment or prosecution; and not his newfound association with dictators, lawyers and impresarios.
Story Continued Below
Snowden's worst fear, by his own account, was that "nothing will change."
"People will see in the media all these disclosures, they'll know the lengths the government is going to grant themselves powers, unilaterally, to create greater control over American society and global society," he told The Guardian last month after he'd asked it to identify him as its source. "But they won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things, to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests."
( Also on POLITICO: Glenn Greenwald: New bombshell coming)
One month after The Guardian's first story, which revealed an order from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing the National Security Agency to collect the phone records of every Verizon customer, there has been no public movement in Washington to stop the court from issuing another such order. Congress has no intelligence reform bill that would rein in the phone tracking, or Internet monitoring, or cyberattack planning, or any of the other secret government workings that Snowden's disclosures have revealed.
There is no modern day Sen. Frank Church ready to convene historic hearings about the intelligence community, like the ones Church ran in the 1970s, proceedings that radically transformed the U.S. intelligence services. Far from having been surprised by Snowden's disclosures, today's intelligence committee leaders stepped right up to defend the NSA's surveillance programs. From Republicans, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, to Democrats, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, they've been nearly unanimous in their support.
"I feel I have an obligation to do everything I can to keep this country safe," Feinstein told The New York Times. "So put that in your pipe and smoke it."
( Also on POLITICO: Edward Snowden steals the show)
In short, the workings of the NSA and its partner intelligence agencies — which, Snowden said, threaten to become "turn-key tyranny" — continue unabated.
"It's very concerning," said Jack Lerner, a law professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in privacy and national security. "I've seen surveys that already show some changing attitudes, however I've also seen a Pew survey that said there's still a pretty strong majority in favor of essentially letting the NSA do this."
Not that Lerner agrees it should — "There're no checks and balances on the way they're using it. There's no guarantee they're not listening on phone sex calls, or people they know, or public figures, or journalists." He remembered a former NSA worker alleging the agency had monitored then-Sen. Barack Obama's communications in the mid-2000s.
( PHOTOS: 10 famous/infamous whistleblowers)
But as far as a potential intelligence reform bill, or a public groundswell of opposition to the government's surveillance apparatus – there's been nothing of the kind.
Snowden has achieved folk hero status in some quarters and his disclosures have unquestionably caused headaches for the White House, particularly with European allies, tensions that could create future complications. But so far, he has achieved nothing close to the goal of "summoning the American people to confront the growing danger of tyranny," as Snowden's father put it in an open letter on Tuesday. Members of Congress have not only ignored Snowden's call to arms but complain that his leaks have set back their ability to do their normal work.
Texas Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a backer of cybersecurity reform, lamented to POLITICO last week that Snowden had slowed what was already sluggish progress on both cyber and defense appropriations bills.
( Also on POLITICO: 10 things to know about Snowden)
"I do worry that the passion or the headline of the moment could cause us to do something that would be a mistake, and I think that's part of the reason [House Homeland Security Chairman Mike] McCaul decided to slow down a little bit on his bill. Obviously we're not doing defense approps this week. We want to not just have a knee-jerk reaction to this event even though it is a big deal," Thornberry said.


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Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans
New Couple Alert?: Now that Madonna is spending a lot of quality time with Brazilian model Jesus Luz, A-Rod has reportedly found a new friend in Kate Hudson – but are the actress and the baseball star more than just friends? According to The New York Post's Page Six, after Kate took in a Yankees game on Friday, she hit NYC's Mustang Grill with A-Rod in tow. According to a Page Six source, the bartender, "was asking patrons not to go in the back room around 1 AM because A-Rod and Kate Hudson were back there making out." When contacted by the paper, reps for the baseball player had "no comment" and Kate's reps could not be reached. Yet another A-Rod rumored romance… we'll believe it when we see proof!
New 'On Set' Feud Alert?: Are Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow battling it out on the set of "Iron Man 2"… and not in a super hero vs. super villain sort of way? According to Britain's The Sun, ScarJo and GOOP Girl Gwen are not getting along. "Gwyneth has become very frustrated with Scarlett. They come from different worlds and have completely different styles. Gwyneth has found Scarlett very demanding of the attention of the crew. It's not a happy set." Until we hear an on set Christian Bale-style leaked rant or read an article on GOOP about dealing with work tension, we're calling this girl fight 'gossip'!
Rihanna's Impromptu Sing-A-Long: We're glad to see Rihanna looking good recently and apparently she's still sounding good too. According to People, the singer was spotted recently in NYC at 1Oak singing along to her own jam. When the DJ put on "Live Your Life" – her duet with T.I. — she reportedly stood up in her booth and sang along. "Everyone around the table went nuts like she was giving a performance or something," an onlooker told the mag. "She obviously loved the fact that they played her songs." Who wouldn't? Keep on singing Rihanna!
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Love Connection: Celebs & Athletes
Can A Fox Wear Head-To-Toe Leather?: Well, Megan Fox sure can – and she does it well! Check out these new shots of the "Transformers" starlet on Cinematical.com looking beyond fierce in a leather jacket and matching leather pants. We'll assume millions of people just found their new desktop image!
Related Content from AccessHollywood.com:
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Scarlett Johansson
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I cannot tell who or what is at the root of my problem—the problem that seems to repeat itself like a train stuck on an endless loop. The majority of things in my life end up boring me, and that is terrifying. What will happen to me when one day I don't have school to keep me grounded, to provide almost everything and everyone in my life that matters? I can't tell if there is something wrong with me. It always feels like there is. I feel like I can almost never find satisfaction from just one area of life yet I do not have the drive to do everything that I need and want to.
I am either always complaining or suppressing, overworking myself or not doing what I need to. Everything is too confusing or too meta or too bland for me to invest myself. I don't want this perpetual disconnect from the world. ♦


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Lavinia was born at home after a short labor of only 8-1/2 hours. I had been praying that my labor would start in the morning so that I would have more energy. The first sign that labor was beginning occurred at 6AM Saturday morning! I was about to head out the door to go to the grocery store, but I woke Douglas and he went instead.
on the morning of Lavinia's birthday]
My due date wasn't for another week, but honestly, I thought she might come anytime in May, so by her actual birthday I was thoroughly tired of waiting! We were all so excited to realize that Saturday was the day. This was another answer to prayer - in previous weeks, I had struggled with the thought of going through labor again, but by the time Lavinia arrived, God had prepared my heart to endure the trial with fortitude and joy.
As I said before, my labor was pretty short, which was another blessing. When Lavinia was born in the early afternoon, I was a bit shocked as I had thought it wouldn't be until dinner time or later! Good thing my midwife made the decision of when to arrive at our apartment instead of me; I was a bit clueless.
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U.S. Reps. Gene Green and Mike Thompson introduced the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act of 2010 (pdf) on Sept. 29 to stop U.S. "recyclers" from dumping electronic waste on developing countries.
The bill is supported by environmental groups as well as electronic manufacturers Apple, Dell, and Samsung, all of which already have policies that prohibit the export of e-waste to developing nations.
"Policymakers, environmentalists and manufacturers worked together to forge an e-waste bill that is good for people, the environment and business," said Kate Sinding, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "This diverse support and cooperation shows that Americans want an e-waste law that does the right thing while also being economically sound."
"This e-waste export bill will stem the tide of the toxic techno-trash sent from the U.S. to developing countries around the world," said Barbara Kyle, coordinator of the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, a national environmental coalition that promotes responsible recycling of e-waste.
The bill adds a new section to the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) laws establishing a new category of "restricted electronic waste" that cannot be exported from the United States to developing nations. Non-hazardous or tested and working electronic products or parts are not restricted. Other exemptions from the restrictions are:
"This law has been a crying need now for eight years," said Jim Puckett, executive director of the Basel Action Network, the organization that first revealed the global e-waste dumping crisis. "I have personally witnessed the horrors of US e-Waste dumped in the rice paddies of China and the swamps of Ghana and Nigeria. Outsourcing our jobs and poisons in this way is simply un-American and it has to stop."


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering ways to ensure future financial assistance for Afghanistan after U.S. lawmakers halved development aid to the country.
In a massive spending bill signed into law on Friday by President Barack Obama, lawmakers provided $1.12 billion to Afghanistan for fiscal 2014 for overall civilian assistance, a 50 percent reduction from the previous fiscal year. It was still unclear, however, how much aid the country would actually receive for 2014.
U.S. officials said they were looking at the details of the bill, and would also explore if they could use unspent money from the previous year or from elsewhere in the budget to increase the amount of funding for Afghanistan.
"While overall levels for the major civilian assistance accounts have been reduced, the bill itself does not include any specific cap for Afghanistan," an official at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said on condition of anonymity.
"Over the next few months, we will finalize bilateral assistance totals for the fiscal year," using a summary that accompanied the legislation as a guide, the official said.
The summary also suggests that USAID and the State Department could supplement the $1.12 billion with unspent funds from fiscal 2013, but it was not immediately clear how much flexibility that might give them.
"While everyone was expecting a cut, no one was expecting it to be 50 percent. That sets a dangerous precedent that might be hard to reverse in coming years," said Andrew Wilder, who directs Afghanistan and Pakistan programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace and spent years working in the region.
USAID, which along with the State Department administers development and assistance programs overseas, had asked for $1.67 billion for Afghanistan in the administration's budget request for fiscal 2014. The overall aid request for fiscal 2014 for Afghanistan was $2.19 billion, according to U.S. officials.
A major cut in U.S. assistance could endanger plans to continue health, education, farming and other aid programs in the desperately poor country. It could also stoke uncertainty as the United States and other NATO countries move to end their long war in Afghanistan, and as Washington seeks an agreement that would permit some U.S. forces to stay there beyond 2014.
The reduction sends a signal to other donor nations, which gathered in Tokyo in 2012 to announce their intentions to provide aid to Afghanistan for years to come. While the United States did not pledge a specific amount for future aid, it promised to seek aid near current levels of just over $2 billion at least through 2015.
Wilder said the administration may not be able to provide much more than the $1.12 billion that lawmakers earmarked for Afghanistan, at least in part because levels of global civilian aid have already been set. "I think (the administration) might be trying to put a brave face on things because they don't want to alarm Afghans," Wilder said.
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I want to start by telling a story. Bare with me.
Once upon a time there was a software engineer. He wrote code, windows code, embedded firmware. He was happy. Then one day a new project is put before him, a project unlike any other he had encountered. It was going to require all new hardware, and the features, wow. Something like this is going to require a full blown Operating System not the usual rinky dink assembly program.
Research leads to the inevitable conclusion, Linux. Further Research leads to a graphical toolkit called Qt (pronounced "Cute".) A request was made and granted for a new workstation to create a new Linux development environment, after all the windows development machine was far too mission critical to muck about with dual booting and virtual machines.
This engineer had some Linux experience on the desktop, having a PC or two running it on and off for the last couple of years. He picked his favorite distribution and after a bit more research had a fully working development machine up and running a chair swivel away from his usual trusty machine. The choices made for this workstation would have a lasting effect on this engineer. KDE for the desktop, with Kdevelop as the IDE won out over Gnome and Eclipse. It stood to reason that if he was developing with Qt, a desktop made atop the Qt libraries was appropriate. Even with the incomplete KDE cross compiling documentation it was fun to work on.
Fast forward, the product is designed, operating system compiled, drivers tweaked, application software is written, units are built, tested and released to production. During this time a funny thing happened, Windows disappeared from the engineer's home PCs completely. The research requirements were so much that many an evening he could be found at his desk until the wee hours of the morning going over documentation, compiling newer kernels, and generally pushing Linux as hard as he could.
When the morning came he would go back to his office and he noticed he swiveled his chair less and less towards the Windows PC. So much so in fact, he decided he should do something about it, He designated it the email machine. That would ensure he used it more frequently. While using it he missed the simplicity and stability (especially the Stability) of his Linux box. No amount of cygwin or virtual machine tweaking was satisfactory. Every open source application that was cross compatible was deployed, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, and the rest, but still it was not enough. Eventually he gave in to dual booting to enable him to use his favorite tools. But the sad truth is, an embedded engineer needs Windows. There are just too many specialized tools for programming devices, analyzing signals, and device drivers that are Windows only and no amount of Wine-ing will do.
His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited.
Well, KDE4 was announced and there was much joy. Betas were released and there was much bitching. KDE4.0.0 was released and there again was much joy (and still a little bitching). More importantly an actual honest to goodness Windows port is released.
Here follows that engineer's report.
I could hardly wait. Download the KDE for Windows Installer. (Link is to the Stable version)
(For this review I went with the bleeding edge unstable version 0.8.6 beta4 marked 1/28/08)
Note the disclaimer.
KDE on Windows is mostly in an alpha state, so not suitable for day to day use yet.
My first thought was "1.6 Megabytes, wow that is some port." Followed by "oh, I see, it's a cygwin-like installer." Hmm, what to install? When in doubt grab it all. Pick a Mirror, I have no preference, I picked a KDE mirror in the US. You have the choice of User or Developer package installation, naturally I chose developer. This gives you all kinds of goodies like Mingw, Qt, Qdesigner, and other development tools.
Ok downloading packages, this may take a while..........
Hours later, Installing Packages this too may take a while, but don't leave because a few packages have installers themselves requiring you to click next, next, next, finish.
All right finished in a blazing 4 hours.
Follow the post install instructions from the KDE guys. Again note the disclaimer:
Disclaimer These are early days for KDE4 on Windows, some programs work better than others and some fail to run altogether.
Never mind all that, lets see what works.
What Works:
Quite a lot actually. See below for Screenshots of included apps that work. Almost all the apps shipped "work". Two are all but useless due to bugs. The rest seem to function perfectly as long as you don't need to refer to Help. Fortunately most apps have an online help while this bug gets ironed out.
What doesn't work?
Sound, at least on my setup there was no sound, any application that tried to make a peep instead produced this error message. Most Apps let you disable sound.
Blinken - Simon unfortunately requires Sound to be playable.
MimeTypes for Dolphin and Konqueror.
(I may have missed something and am investigating)
Dolphin is the new Filemanager for KDE and it looks very nice, however It could not run any executables, view any pictures or play and music. It browsed my directories just fine after complaining about not being able to open ~ directory. After setting up my home directory it stopped complaining. But not being able to do anything but browse was disapointing.
Konqueror – KDE's Swiss Army Knife, Web Browser, File Manager, FTP Client, Embedded File Viewer, Etc ... Unfortunately on my Windows box it is reduced to a Web Browser (without Flash support) and a Menu Explorer (without being able to launch anything.)
What is missing?
Besides the things mentioned above. Koffice the KDE Office Suite, Amarok Media Player, Kontact PIM Suite including Kmail, Kopete Instant Messenger. KDEVELOP!!!!!!! These are still being worked on for KDE4, so no real surprise their not ready for Windows yet.
Help Functions on all programs are broken.
So what's the answer?
Can KDE save the dying windows platform?
Not Quite Yet, but they are making a damn fine start of it.
I know I will be pitching in to help them out with new KDE Windows apps and I won't be alone. Qt is already a powerful Windows Toolkit but the KDE family of Applications are a welcome addition. Amarok is coming along nicely, and as soon as KMail, and KDevelop gets up and running, I will have to re-evaluate.
Kwrite – Notepad Replacement.
Kate – KDE Advanced Text Editor, the brains behind my favorite IDE Kdevelop. Syntax Highlighting and Code Folding is working perfectly.
Kfind – KDE File Search Tool – I didn't expect this to work but what do you know it does.
Konqueror Web Browser, Nice to see the Konq on XP too bad about the flash and it doesn't seem to support Gmail.
Kworld Clock – It's a Clock for the whole world.
KAlgebra - Math Education Tool
Kalzium – Periodic Table educational Software
Kbruch – Learn Fractions and Decimal Conversions
Kgeography – World Geography and Capitals
KPercentage - Percentage Study Tool
Kstars – Internet Connected Observtory one click to retrieve gorgeous pics of distant galaxies as well as Wikipedia and Nasa Pages.
Ktuberling – Mr Potato Head for KDE shown here in Space mode
Kturtle – LOGO Educational Programming Environment.
KTouch - KDE Touch Typing Tutor
Parley – Language Phrase Teacher, No files loaded.
Marble – The Earth on your desktop.
KwordQuiz – Flashcard and Q & A Study Tool
Kmplot - Matematical Plotting Tool
Katomic – Connect Molecules in this Puzzle Game.
Kanagram - Anagram game
Bovo – Tic Tac Toe on Steroids
Kbattleship - KDE sunk my battleship
Kblackbox – I hate this Game and I refuse to describe it.
Kbounce – KDE's Version of Jeezball
KHangman - Hangman for KDE
Klines – Make Lines of 5 or more but don't block your path
KmahJong – KDE Mahjong, The Art Department has been working overtime.
Kmines - KDE MineSweeper
Knetwalk – Get those computers on the Net as fast as you can. This game is like Crack, You have been warned.
Kolf – Minature Golf, This is the fugliest of the KDE games.
Konquest - Galactic Conquest
Kpatience – Several Different Solitaire Card Games
Kreversi – Reversi or Othello finally with fullscreen scaling.
Kshinen – Cross between Tetris and Mahjong
Ksudoku – Sudoku except on your PC
KspaceDuel – Another game I was never very fond of.
Ksquares – You remember that game where you draw a grid of dots and take turns connecting them, this is it without all that drawing and paper.
Kriki – K Yatzee again without the paper.
Kfourlines – Konnect Four was taken I guess.
Kjumping cube – Dice Game, I don't get it.
SameGame - Remove Groups of the same color.
Kgoldrunner - Oh Yeah Lode Runner.
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Two prominent northern Virginia business leaders got into a heated exchange with Virginia Republican gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli in front of a few hundred top GOP donors at a closed-door meeting Friday, multiple sources told POLITICO.
Bobbie Kilberg, a longtime Republican donor and CEO of Northern Virginia Technology Council, and Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Arlington-based Consumer Electronics Association, stood up separately to confront Cuccinelli about what is on the minds of many Virginia and national Republicans: whether the Tea Party-backed attorney general can, or wants to, run a pragmatic campaign in the increasingly moderate Old Dominion.
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The face-off took place at a meeting of the Republican Governor's Association's "Executive Roundtable," a group of national CEOs and business leaders, Friday morning at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington. The event was meant to showcase Cuccinelli as one of two Republican gubernatorial candidates this year.
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But instead of simply making his pitch and picking up a few business cards from potential donors, Cuccinelli was all but dressed down by two fellow Virginians.
Kilberg, who is close with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, spoke first and noted that the state has become "purple." She pointed out that McDonnell has sought to govern in the mainstream. But then she wondered aloud if Cuccinelli's crusading brand fits Virginia's present political and demographic reality.
Shapiro spoke up next and was even tougher on Cuccinelli. As a hushed room looked on, Shapiro, who sits on the board of the influential Northern Virginia Technology Council, said the state's centrist-oriented business community won't back the Republican standard-bearer because he's out of the mainstream.
"Gary just slammed him," said one attendee.
Cuccinelli fiercely defended himself, noting his accomplishments and election as a state senator from Fairfax County and as attorney general in 2009.
"He was angry and hostile," said an attendee. Another Republican in the room said Cuccinelli "handled it ok" and pointed out that the attorney general also got some more favorable questions during the session.
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Joy of joys, a beautiful, light, no-fuss, summery festive meal that can be made beforehand.
You don't have to sweat it out in the kitchen on Christmas Day while everyone is sipping some fizz and opening pressies around the tree.
Instead, call on the Three Wise Ingredients of Christmas and stock up on salmon, turkey breast and ripe, red raspberries.
Turn the salmon into beetroot-cured gravlax. Roll the turkey around a spicy stuffing of chorizo sausage, herbs and preserved lemon to be served warm or cold with a Christmassy green herb couscous. Transform the raspberries into little frozen souffles, sitting up high above their dishes as if by magic.
The gravlax is the best I have ever made - sweet, earthy and festively fringed with scarlet. Made two days in advance, it is a brilliant standby for all your Christmas entertaining, to be served with warm blinis, little squares of dark rye bread or fingers of hot toast.
The turkey, quick to cook and easy to carve, is as happy served hot as it is cold. You even get crisp skin and stuffing.
As for the pud, the creamy-pink, frozen raspberry souffles, adapted from a fantastic book called Ice Cream by Shona Crawford Poole (Conran Octopus), are made the day before and simply "ripened" by leaving at room temperature for 15 minutes. How sweet it will be, to sit at the table knowing the Christmas pud is waiting in the freezer.
That's what I call a happy Christmas.
Beetroot-cured salmon and radicchio salad
Serve carpaccio-style with a little citrussy salad, or just pile onto grilled sourdough toast.
600g salmon fillet, with skin
50g fresh dill
250g raw beetroot
75g sea salt
75g caster sugar
1/2 tsp peppercorns, crushed
2 tbsp vodka
100g radicchio or red witlof, shredded
100g baby rocket or cress
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp horseradish cream
2 tbsp pouring cream
Sea salt and pepper to taste
With tweezers, pick out any small bones still in the salmon. Wash, dry and roughly chop the dill. Peel and grate the beetroot (wear gloves).
Combine the dill, beetroot, sea salt, sugar, pepper and vodka in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Place a little of the curing mixture in a tray, arrange the salmon skin-down on top then cover the salmon with the rest of the mixture. Cover with plastic and refrigerate for 24 hours. Turn the fish over, spoon over any juices, cover again and refrigerate for a further 12-24 hours.
Remove the fish, rinse and pat dry. Finely slice on the diagonal, using the full length of the knife blade, and fan the slices in a single layer on each of six dinner plates.
Toss the radicchio with the rocket, olive oil and lemon juice. Arrange leaves on plate where salmon slices overlap or pile to one side.
Mix the horseradish cream with the cream, sea salt and pepper and drizzle over the salmon or serve in a jug.
Serves 6.
Turkey roll with chorizo and preserved lemon
This can be cooked the day before or early the same day and rested.
1 turkey breast fillet, about 1.3kg
Sea salt and pepper
400mL dry white wine, boiling water or stock
300g chorizo or spicy pork sausages
1 tbsp preserved lemon rind, chopped, or lemon rind, grated
50g grated parmesan
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
1 tbsp thyme, finely chopped
1 egg, beaten
100g fresh white breadcrumbs
For the stuffing Skin the sausages, pinch the meat into a frypan and cook for 5 minutes and allow to cool.
Lightly mix the cooled sausage with the preserved lemon or lemon rind, parmesan, nutmeg, parsley, thyme, egg and breadcrumbs.
Preheat oven to 200C. To butterfly the turkey breast, place skin side down and make a shallow cut down the centre of the meat. Then cut horizontally through the thick meat to either side, and open it up like a book. Cover with plastic film and pound vigorously with a rolling pin to flatten, then rub with salt and pepper.
Form the stuffing into a sausage shape and place in the middle of the turkey meat. Roll tightly, tuck in the ends and tie securely with string. Season well.
Place the turkey roll skin up in a roasting pan, add the liquid to the pan, and roast for 1 hour and 10 mins. Rest for 20 mins, remove the string and carve thickly. Serve warm, or cold, with the cooking juices.
Serves 6.
Frozen raspberry souffle
More a mousse, this still sits up high in the mould as if beautifully risen.
Make sure you have enough room in your freezer before you begin. You will need six straight-sided 100mL ramekins, or 75mL souffle dishes.
Greaseproof paper
Butter to grease paper
300g raspberries, plus 50g for serving
100g caster sugar
3 tbsp Cointreau
2 egg whites
50g icing sugar, sifted
450mL whipping cream
Make paper collars for the ramekins - fold a doubled length of greaseproof paper and wrap around the outside of each to form a collar that comes 2.5cm above the rim. Lightly grease the inside of the paper and secure with paper clips top and bottom. Chill until needed.
Blend the berries, sugar and Cointreau. Beat the egg whites until soft and peaky, adding the icing sugar and beating again until you have a firm, glossy meringue.
Beat the cream until soft and peaky, fold in the berry puree then fold in the meringue mixture until just mixed.
Divide between the chilled souffle dishes, filling them to the top of the paper. Smooth the tops and freeze overnight.
To serve, remove from the freezer for 15 minutes, gently peel off the papers and arrange remaining raspberries on top.
Serves 6.
Green couscous
In a heatproof bowl, combine 300g instant couscous, 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 2 tbsp each parsley, mint and coriander (all finely chopped), sea salt and pepper. Add 500mL boiling water and leave for 10 minutes, covered with foil. Fluff up with a fork and keep warm over a pot of barely simmering water until ready to serve, or cool and serve as a salad, tossed with extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice and halved cherry tomatoes.
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SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.
But there's a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the
One explanation for these findings is that introverts are comfortable working alone — and solitude is a catalyst to innovation. As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck observed, introversion fosters creativity by "concentrating the mind on the tasks in hand, and preventing the dissipation of energy on social and sexual matters unrelated to work." In other words, a person sitting quietly under a tree in the backyard, while everyone else is clinking glasses on the patio, is more likely to have an apple land on his head. (Newton was one of the world's great introverts: William Wordsworth described him as "A mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.")
Solitude has long been associated with creativity and transcendence. "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible,"
Culturally, we're often so dazzled by charisma that we overlook the quiet part of the creative process. Consider
Rewind to March 1975: Mr. Wozniak believes the world would be a better place if everyone had a user-friendly computer. This seems a distant dream — most computers are still the size of minivans, and many times as pricey. But Mr. Wozniak meets a simpatico band of engineers that call themselves the Homebrew Computer Club. The Homebrewers are excited about a primitive new machine called the Altair 8800. Mr. Wozniak is inspired, and immediately begins work on his own magical version of a computer. Three months later, he unveils his amazing creation for his friend, Steve Jobs. Mr. Wozniak wants to give his invention away free, but Mr. Jobs persuades him to co-found Apple Computer.
The story of Apple's origin speaks to the power of collaboration. Mr. Wozniak wouldn't have been catalyzed by the Altair but for the kindred spirits of Homebrew. And he'd never have started Apple without Mr. Jobs.
But it's also a story of solo spirit. If you look at how Mr. Wozniak got the work done — the sheer hard work of creating something from nothing — he did it alone. Late at night, all by himself.
Intentionally so. In his memoir, Mr. Wozniak offers this guidance to aspiring inventors:
"Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me ... they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone .... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team."
And yet. The New Groupthink has overtaken our workplaces, our schools and our religious institutions. Anyone who has ever needed noise-canceling headphones in her own office or marked an online calendar with a fake meeting in order to escape yet another real one knows what I'm talking about. Virtually all American workers now spend time on teams and some 70 percent inhabit open-plan offices, in which no one has "a room of one's own." During the last decades, the average amount of space allotted to each employee shrank 300 square feet, from 500 square feet in the 1970s to 200 square feet in 2010.
Our schools have also been transformed by the New Groupthink. Today, elementary school classrooms are commonly arranged in pods of desks, the better to foster group learning. Even subjects like math and creative writing are often taught as committee projects. In one fourth-grade classroom I visited in
The New Groupthink also shapes some of our most influential religious institutions. Many mega-churches feature extracurricular groups organized around every conceivable activity, from parenting to skateboarding to real estate, and expect worshipers to join in. They also emphasize a theatrical style of worship — loving Jesus out loud, for all the congregation to see. "Often the role of a pastor seems closer to that of church
SOME teamwork is fine and offers a fun, stimulating, useful way to exchange ideas, manage information and build trust.
But it's one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it's another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted. They're also more likely to suffer from
Many introverts seem to know this instinctively, and resist being herded together. Backbone Entertainment, a video game development company in Emeryville, Calif., initially used an open-plan office, but found that its game developers, many of whom were introverts, were unhappy. "It was one big warehouse space, with just tables, no walls, and everyone could see each other," recalled Mike Mika, the former creative director. "We switched over to cubicles and were worried about it — you'd think in a creative environment that people would hate that. But it turns out they prefer having nooks and crannies they can hide away in and just be away from everybody."
Privacy also makes us productive. In a fascinating study known as the Coding War Games, consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister compared the work of more than 600 computer programmers at 92 companies. They found that people from the same companies performed at roughly the same level — but that there was an enormous performance gap between organizations. What distinguished programmers at the top-performing companies wasn't greater experience or better pay. It was how much privacy, personal workspace and freedom from interruption they enjoyed. Sixty-two percent of the best performers said their workspace was sufficiently private compared with only 19 percent of the worst performers. Seventy-six percent of the worst programmers but only 38 percent of the best said that they were often interrupted needlessly.
Solitude can even help us learn. According to research on expert performance by the psychologist Anders
Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate creativity. The brainchild of a charismatic advertising executive named Alex Osborn who believed that groups produced better ideas than individuals, workplace brainstorming sessions came into vogue in the 1950s. "The quantitative results of group brainstorming are beyond question," Mr. Osborn wrote. "One group produced 45 suggestions for a home-appliance promotion, 56 ideas for a money-raising campaign, 124 ideas on how to sell more blankets."
But decades of research show that individuals almost always perform better than groups in both quality and quantity, and group performance gets worse as group size increases. The "evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups," wrote the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. "If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority."
The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work, too. People in groups tend to sit back and let others do the work; they instinctively mimic others' opinions and lose sight of their own; and, often succumb to peer pressure. The
The one important exception to this dismal record is electronic brainstorming, where large groups outperform individuals; and the larger the group the better. The protection of the screen mitigates many problems of group work. This is why the Internet has yielded such wondrous collective creations.
MY point is not that man is an island. Life is meaningless without love, trust and friendship.
And I'm not suggesting that we abolish teamwork. Indeed, recent studies suggest that influential academic work is increasingly conducted by teams rather than by individuals. (Although teams whose members collaborate remotely, from separate universities, appear to be the most influential of all.) The problems we face in science, economics and many other fields are more complex than ever before, and we'll need to stand on one another's shoulders if we can possibly hope to solve them.
But even if the problems are different, human nature remains the same. And most humans have two contradictory impulses: we love and need one another, yet we crave privacy and autonomy.
To harness the energy that fuels both these drives, we need to move beyond the New Groupthink and embrace a more nuanced approach to creativity and learning. Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people to disappear into personalized, private spaces when they want to be alone. Our schools should teach children to work with others, but also to work on their own for sustained periods of time. And we must recognize that introverts like Steve Wozniak need extra quiet and privacy to do their best work.
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SSC Result 2014 will be published on 17th May 2014 at 1pm, a reliable source from Dhaka education board confirms the news.
Bangladesh Education ministry has already sent the request to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to approve the SSC Result 2014 publication date. All Education boards have completed the compilation of SSC Exam result 2014 and set to jointly publish the SSC result online at www.educationboardreslts.gov.bd.
For this years SSC Result 2014, Education ministry has setup strong online result servers for uninterrupted SSC result download by all students and parents from all over the country. Multiple redundant servers with load balancing facility has been put in place to serve the SSC Result 2014. Teletalk, BUET and Education Ministry provided all necessary helps for SSC result 2014 online. Hope this year online result viewers wont face downtime of result servers in www.educationboardreslts.gov.bd.
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This year 1,432,727 examinees appeared for SSC Exam 2014 which held from Feb 9 to Mar 22, which was a increase by 129,554 from last year's 1,303,203. A total of 733,000 males and 699,525 females from 27,489 institutes sat for the SSC exam 2014 at 2942 exam centers . will appear for the exams.
This year 1,090,000 students took part in SSC tests under eight boards, 239,749 students under Madrasa Board and 102423 students appeared at SSC vocational tests.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid hoped to publish results on May 17 or May 18, which is within 60 days after the end of exams. This will help the students to enroll at the colleges by July 1 ,2014.
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Kristen Stewart is known as much for her punky and grungy off-screen style as she is for keeping fans guessing on the status of her relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. But one thing that is for sure: Stewart is leaving her tough-girl style behind while promoting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in Italy, turning up today in a parade of sweetly sexy little black dresses. First, the star hit a photocall for the film alongside hunky on-screen love interest Taylor Lautner in a tweed and organza J. Mendel dress paired with black peeptoe pumps. And then, she hit the film's Roman premiere in an elaborate black tulle Marchesa minidress, which she wore with a loose updo and satin Roger Vivier ankle-strap heels. It's only just the beginning of Stewart and her Eclipse crew promoting the sure-to-be smash hit movie, so we can barely wait to see if her glam streak continues. Tell us: What do you think of Kristen's new glam look? –Melissa Liebling-Goldberg


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Does anyone else use tramp? It is a mode that allows emacs to transparently edit remote files. For example, you have a file called afile.txt on a server called someserver.
Then behind the scenes emacs will ftp the the file to and from the server every time you save.
What Is Happening In Ange-ftp?
tramp has been letting me down. When I try and access a remote-file it fails to login to the ftp process. Sad.
The ftp login as handled by
ange-ftp. I finally tracked the problem down to this section.
(defun ange-ftp-get-process (host user) ;; ... (let ((pass (ange-ftp-quote-string (ange-ftp-get-passwd host user)))
ange-ftp-get-process calls
(ange-ftp-quote-string ...). Normally, this isn't a problem. For example, on the Windows PC I am using at this precise moment
(ange-ftp-quote-string "!\"£$%^&*()") expands to
"!\"£$%^&*()". However, at work, I get:
Could this be due to the customize EmacsW32 option? I'm not sure. Anyway, absent the underlying cause, my work-around is to
(require 'ange-ftp) and then redefine the ange-ftp-get-process without the quoting of the password.
(require 'ange-ftp) (defun ange-ftp-get-process (host user) ;; ... (let ((pass (ange-ftp-get-passwd host user))


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I enjoy programming in Perl. There, I said it. And, although a lot of the stuff I write could easily be written in Emacs Lisp, I generally reach for Perl to solve most of my programming problems. However, if I had to choose between Perl and Emacs disappearing, I'd choose Perl any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
The reason is that there isn't any competition in the emacs space1. Vim, Visual Studio and Eclipse are not acceptable substitutes. But if I want a dynamically typed langugage with good syntactical support for arrays, hashes and regular expressions and loads of libraries I know where to find Ruby or Python.
A. I enjoy programming in Perl
What makes Emacs so great?
(or what would I need to switch from Emacs to another editor)
Many people put it as Emacs has QWAN (the quality without a name), but that doesn't really help to quantify things. Saying that all of the features work very nicely together is true, but also not that helpful. Let me try and point out a few things.
(If the c2 link above isn't working, try the Bing cache).
Keystrokes are bound to functions
…and it is all very discoverable. If I want to know what a given keystroke does, I just press
C-h k <key> and it tells me the function that calls. For example, arrow key calls
forward-char. Now, say I want to make a function that needs to move forward a number of characters, I know what the function is called.
The utility of this discoverability in making composite functions cannot be overstated. You might think that macros are equally good, but what if I want a function that persists between sessions. For my line duplication function I glued together functions found with
C-h k.
Okay, new utilities, great but not that impressive.
What about fixing stuff with the editor that you just don't like. For example, recently I had a problem where <page down> went to the beginning of the line rather than remembering the current column position. You might be thinking a proper editor wouldn't do that, or it isn't really a problem, but you can't imagine how annoying that was after the first ten times.
Anyway, what I did was… I fixed it. With
C-h k I found that the command was scroll-up and I wrote a wrapper function that remembered the current column (alternatively I could have used advice). Saved my blood pressure and took around 5 minutes.
To summarise:
- Key strokes / key chords call functions (which can be user-defined)
- New functions can be created within the editor at any time
- any key / key chord can call any function
- information about the function can be viewed
Okay, you're not convinced. Vim can do that, albeit with a much less pleasant language (or with perl, ruby, python, etc. if you've compiled a fat vim)
Editor Tabs
Tabs are not the right mechanism to deal with hundreds of open files. Emacs (together with ido) works beautifully. Generally I'll have a couple of hundred files open with different file types and I'll use progressive filtering to first find the perl files and then narrow down the file I wanted. Very quick and very nice. I've spent hours scrolling through tabs in Visual Studio and it was not fun.
So all your keys are bound to various useful commands. M-e steps forward to the next sentence nicely. But then you're editing lisp (or perl) and sentence doesn't mean much. What does emacs do?
In this case it has a keymap hierarchy. The global keymap defines a bunch of keys which can be overridden by keys defined in the major mode keymap. These can be added to with keys defined in one or more minor mode keymaps.
Comint is an awesome bit of kit. Out of the box, Emacs provides fantastic support for interacting with asynchronous processes. Comint codifies a lot of the functionality you would want to make a decent REPL for an external interpreter. Because this is one of the more tricky interactions to manage, it is an excellent API for dealing with any external process.
A while ago I wrote an article about a comint based stock price subscriber which demonstrates a few comint features.
Take a look at the interaction with gdb following
M-x gdb-many-windows. It looks like an IDE no?
Emacs Applications
Some people have developed some impressive applications in emacs.
- Org Mode
- Emacs Muse
- SLIME (A full-featured Lisp IDE)
And my own Emacs Database Mode
Which in turn is based on the excellent sql-mode.
1. Apart from XEmacs of course.


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Visiting Writers Series Expands with Robert Olen Butler
Now three writers in different genres will come to campus each semester, starting with Robert Olen Butler. by Greg Ryan '08
It's not every day a Pulitzer Prize winner compliments your writing. Aspiring writer Evan Perriello '08 knows what it feels like, though. In a master class conducted by Robert Olen Butler at the College in February, the author praised Perriello's short-short story—a work of only a few hundred words and a genre for which Butler is renowned.
"It's always edifying to get feedback from someone who has really succeeded in what you're trying to do," Perriello said.
Thanks to an experimental format change in the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, two more well-known writers in other genres could critique Perriello and his fellow students' work over the spring semester. The Department of Writing decided to bring three writers to campus this semester rather than one, as has been traditional: Butler, Pulitzer-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, and essayist Vivian Gornick.
Inviting three writers per semester allows for diversity in the genres of writers students are exposed to, said assistant professor of writing Jack Wang, who organizes the writers series. "With only one writer per semester," he added, "there's an impulse to bring in the biggest name. With three, we can bring in more hot, young writers, or midcareer writers who are great teachers."
The writers stay campus for a few days rather than a week. Each holds a public reading and conducts two master classes, so students still benefit from hands-on instruction and commentary on their work.
Perriello was looking forward to Komunyakaa and Gornick's visits. "You can't take advice like that as make-or-break, but you hope for the best," he said. "It's nice to get the opportunity for someone [so accomplished] to look at your writing and critique it."


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Judith Merril
Known as "the little mother of science fiction," Judith Merril burst onto the New York literary scene in 1948 with a disturbing story about nuclear radiation.
Merril's contribution to science fiction was summed up by J. G. Ballard (author of Crash and Empire of the Sun) in 1992:
What was it like for a gender-bender who made it in a man's world fifty years ago? Merril's life was a microcosm of alternative cultural and political movements. Born into early Zionist circles, Merril ventured as a teenager into the Trotskyism of the 1930s and '40s.
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10 emerging technologies that will shape IT's future
Everyone is a trend watcher. But taking a hard look at the technologies that gave life to the latest buzz phrases is the only way to determine which trends will actually weave their way into the fabric of business computing.
Here at InfoWorld, we're every bit as excited about big changes in the direction of enterprise IT, from the consumerization of IT to infrastructure convergence. But what vapor-free technologies have actually emerged to enable these IT strategies to take shape, and more importantly, which will cement these changes in your IT department in the years to come?
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Is MMS Just Like Limewire? New Lawsuit Against AT&T, Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile Says So...
from the say-what-now deptRegular Techdirt commenter Max Davis (who I believe may be involved in this lawsuit) passed along the news that all the big US mobile operators have been sued -- including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile -- under the claim that their MMS platforms are really illegal file sharing networks, and that these operators are no different than Limewire or Gnuttella. Yes, seriously -- the email Max sent repeatedly refers to MMS and Limewire as if they were the same. Here's the complaint:
Defendants, and each of them, enabled the transfer/transmission and publication of this copyright protected content via mobile devices by building and implementing a peer to peer file sharing network with the dedicated purpose of enabling end users to share multimedia files via this MMS network. Defendants, and each of them, profited from these activities by charging the transmitter and receivers of this content a fee or flat rate for the transfer/transmission that resulted in the publication of said content. Despite charging the transmitter and receiver a fee for the delivery of this copyrighted content, Defendants, and each of them, failed to compensate the holder of the copyrights for this content that was necessary in generating the MMS data revenue. Furthermore, Defendants, and each of them failed or refused to provide a system where an adequate accounting of the transfer/transmission and publication of this copyrighted content could be made.Basically, this company, Luvdarts, made MMS content, and it got distributed via MMS. Since recipients of MMS can forward the MMS data they receive, such content got forwarded around. Since the mobile operators receive revenue for MMS data, Luvdarts is effectively claiming that they are profiting off the infringement of Luvdarts content. This makes no sense. It's like saying that any email provider is infringing on the copyrights of email writers by letting recipients forward emails. You know those chain emails that get passed around? Imagine if one of the authors of those then sued all the big email providers. It would get laughed out of court. Hopefully, this lawsuit gets laughed out of court too.
The one oddity is that the lawsuit claims that the mobile operators do not qualify for DMCA safe harbor protections, because they're "not service providers" as defined in the DMCA. Specifically:
The transmission of this MMS data is not covered by the exemption for Internet Service Providers as set forth in 17 U.S.C. §512 because the wireless carriers are not Internet Service Providers as defined by §512 while providing a dedicated MMS network for multimedia file sharing.Really? If you haven't read your §512 lately, why not go take a look and explain how a mobile operator offering MMS is not covered. It certainly seems covered by the definition:
Definitions.--Help me out. Where are mobile operators offering MMS features excluded? Looks like yet another frivolous lawsuit. But, of course, Luvdarts is demanding the statutory maximum of $150,000 per infringement, and claims "9,999 to 100,000 counts of infringement" (broad enough range there?). Good luck, Max.
(1) Service provider--
(A) As used in subsection (a), the term "service provider" means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.
(B) As used in this section, other than subsection (a), the term "service provider" means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A).
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It's Tough Being Outside The Loop
Some may see this as nothing more than a pointless rant. If you're not in the mood for that, I might suggest that you move on and check back here on Monday. I promise to have a racing-based post with an historical slant to it. If you're in the mood to hear a defensive sounding whine that comes close to alienating and insulting the lifeblood of a blogger – a reader, then feel free to continue reading.
We bloggers open ourselves up for criticism every time we post. We understand that. There are a lot of folks out there – the Legions of the Miserable, as I've always called them – that like to slink around from site to site just to play the game of "gotcha". We know that from time to time, someone is going to misinterpret something we wrote or not understand our point of view. A lot of times, it's our own fault for not conveying our message better. I've certainly fallen into that trap more than once.
I consider myself to be a fairly even-keeled, thick-skinned guy. I guess all of us have those moments when something sets us off, yet you can't really pinpoint why. I experienced one of those moments on Wednesday morning.
Since I first started this site in May of 2009, I have received more than a few comments and e-mails correcting me on different pieces of misinformation I have put out into the blogosphere. When writing about a subject I'm not very familiar with, I try to research my topic before I start blindly typing away. For example, I'm not a gearhead. I know who the engine manufacturers have been over the years, but I do not understand the minute differences between them enough to explain how or why Honda regularly embarrassed Chevy and Toyota in 2004 & 2005. But if I were to write a post about it, I would try to read up on it enough to at least be conversant on the subject.
Every now and then, I get a little too confident in my ability to recall tidbits that I thought I had committed to memory – especially when I write about the Indianapolis 500. That is a subject I feel the most confident talking and writing about and I sometimes rely on my memory without looking something up, and it bites me. Sometimes I'll misstate a fact and get called on the carpet on it by readers of this site, as it should be. When that happens, I'll quickly acknowledge it with something like "Oops! I stand corrected" or something equally non-witty.
Some corrections are comical, although they don't mean to be. One comes to mind from a couple of years ago when I was writing about Helio Castroneves. I mentioned that Helio might be saying something under his breath in Portuguese. A reader posted a comment pointing out my supposed flaw, stating that Helio isn't from Portugal; he's from Brazil and speaks Brazilian. Hmmm…
Sometimes readers will point it out on the comment section, which is fine. Others will have the decency to send me an e-mail pointing out something I mistakenly said. Whichever means of correcting me is fine. I really don't mind. If I'm clearly wrong, I don't mind. If someone shares a different opinion than mine, I don't mind.
Somehow you knew there was a "but" coming. At the risk of sounding defensive, I received an e-mail on Wednesday regarding my post about Sarah Fisher, that rubbed me the wrong way. It didn't bother me at first, but as the day went on it irritated me more and more as I stewed (and yes, I'm a legendary stewer).
It started out nice enough. The reader, who shall go unnamed, stated how much he liked my blog and thought that I was doing a good job. So far, so good. It was the next paragraph where this e-mail took a strange turn. The reader implored me to please do a better job of research about Sarah Fisher Racing. He went on to explain very carefully that although the team is called Sarah Fisher Racing, Sarah was only the face of the team and handled only the PR side. He then informed me that it was really her father-in-law John O'Gara and husband Andy O'Gara that really ran the team. Really?
However, it was the next sentence that really made me fume throughout the day on Wednesday: "I mean this with no disrespect to you, but with your not being located in Indy and only being around teams once or twice a year at Indy and a couple of races a year, you aren't in the loop". When I first read it, my eyebrows raised. As I continued to think about it, it kept gnawing at me throughout the day.
The first question that came to mind was; what in the world does geography have to do with anything? It is true that I don't live in Indianapolis. It is also true that I am not a journalist. I am a fan and I do this as a hobby. But in my immediate response, I explained to the reader that I have written several posts on Sarah Fisher over the years, I had a personal interview with Sarah and Ed Carpenter both this past May, and for the most part – my research has been spot-on. I also felt the need to explain that I was fully aware that Sarah handled the PR end, while her husband and father-in-law made the racing decisions.
The reader also pointed out my not understanding that Dollar General made their decision long before the end of September and that had I been more in the loop, I would better understand PR spin from the teams. Grrrr!!!
Again, I felt the need to defend myself. I tried to point out that (even though I tend to be morbidly verbose) for brevity sake, I didn't see the need to get into every piece of minutia in my post – just to show how much I know. I told him that I knew there was much more to the ResQ story than just a sponsor not sending the check. There were major miscommunications on both sides and things got really ugly. Because I didn't go into those details, does that mean I didn't know them? Is that an indication that I'm out of the loop?
Curiously enough, this e-mail was from a person I had never heard of. He has never left a comment (under this name), nor has he ever e-mailed me before. To add to the confusion, he never identified any group or organization that would make him considered to be "inside the loop". Coincidence or not, I happened to receive another e-mail from him last night that appeared to be a spam e-mail sent to many others about how to start a home based business. Nice.
I have seen other sites where a blogger will personally attack anyone in their comment section who does not agree with them. I always tried to follow the rule that it wasn't ever a good idea to attack your readers. Instead, be glad you've got them – they are the reason we keep doing this. I never understood bloggers who hold their own readers in contempt. Personally, I've always been a little cocky that the readership here was more than a cut above many of the other sites. Perhaps I overreacted to this reader only because it was 5:45am when I read the e-mail. But I could not understand the logic that by me living outside of Marion County, somehow made me less able to understand the sport.
There are many things I don't know about IndyCar racing. I don't pretend to be Curt Cavin, Robin Miller or Marshall Pruett. But give me a little credit. I've been following this sport long enough to know a few things. I know that Sarah handles the PR end of her team. You know what else? I also know that Larry Foyt makes the day-to-day decisions at AJ Foyt Racing instead of his legendary father; and that Paul Newman and Carl Haas no longer call the shots at Newman/Haas. And before I get more e-mails, I am aware that Paul Newman is deceased.
I welcome corrections and constructive criticism – I really do. All I ask is to please base them on facts and logic. I realize I'm shallow, superficial and petty, but I do want to get things right. If my facts are wrong, please tell me. I have family members who alert me to typos every day, but misstated facts get past them a lot. Because, yes – I get things wrong sometime. But please don't assume that because I live in Nashville and not Indianapolis, that I am completely isolated from the goings on of the IZOD IndyCar Series and am therefore – out of the loop.
George Phillips
24 Responses to "It's Tough Being Outside The Loop"
I agree with you George, however, I think that devoting your entire Friday blog to comments made by someone who clearly does not follow your blog and knows very little about the overall consistent quality of your posts, was perhaps a mistake. I think sometimes we, myself included, spend way too much time and far too much effort in defending ourselves against criticism from egocentric miscreants.
Truthfully, I would much rather have read a story railing against the announcement of the latest international race being held in China.
Not being in "the loop" is EXACTLY why we need and read blogs like this. Imagine if all political bloggers had to be located in DC?
That person's comment was ridiculous. *If* distance had anything to do with the problems he (I presume it's a "he") identified, *then* he should have demonstrated the link between those problems and you not being in Indianapolis. If he didn't, the charge is baseless.
This is the information age. Distance as a problem can be overcome. One of the best September 11th historians I've read lives in California (he routinely quashes conspiracy theorists spouting nonsense over the event); another is in England, while a third is in Italy. Yet, I've heard from people living *in Manhattan* who don't know basics about the New York end of that day's history. Regarding movies: One of the best American Civil War movies I've seen was made by Ang Lee, the same Taiwanese director who shot Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I can go on, but the point is made: Distance does not have to mean a thing. Yes, it *can* be a problem in information gathering, but not only does it not have to be, it must be demonstrated that when something is said to be wrong that it was wrong because the claimant was too far away to get it right.
Citing distance alone is not the most disciplined of thinking. In the information age, distance is one of the things that's been shrunk or waylaid as a problem.
George has a perfect right to make his plea: If someone's got a disagreement, base it on facts. Not assertions.
I'm in Hamilton County (adjacent to Marion County), and man, there's a lot I'm sure I don't know about what goes on. But honestly, it isn't as if you portray yourself as a Pruett or a Miller, George. You write about IndyCar, and do a fine job of it. In the electronic age, facts and interaction are available like never before. Everyone makes mistakes, regardless of geographical location.
Although, I guess it was nice he at least took the time to send you an email, however misdirected it might have been.
You are not the idiot so who cares what the hateful person has to say. A.J. Fovt does not live in Indy nor does Roger Penske even though they are directly involved does not mean you are not entitled to your opinion. Where you live and who you know is senseless bullshit from a reader who needs a wake up call. I enjoy you opinion and I do live in Indy so screw the idiot who thinks he is the man. Keep doing what you have done for the fans who are open minded and willing to say I do not know it all nor will I ever. Great article because I see all kinds of critics about IndyCar who go back and talk about cart like it was the best thing that ever happened and forget that cart failed for a reason and it was not Tony George who made it happen. Some so called fans just live in the past and cannot see the issues of the day.
Paul Newman is deceased?
I know. It's such a shock to hear this. 😦
Whose salad dressing have I been eating these past few years? He doesnt make it himself?
Honey Badger don't give a shit (about haters)! Don't let the anal wankers get ya down, George. If anything, IndyCar is TOO focused on people "in the loop" in greater Indianapolis.
I'm half-surprised the guy didn't tell you that anyone who doesn't live within I-465 is "outside of the loop".
George, I greatly enjoy your blog, and learn something almost everytime I read it. I am way out west and nowhere near the 'loop' but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of the sport. In a crowded entertainment and sports marketplace, IndyCar needs far less elitism, and many more proponents of the sport like you and your dedication to your blog. Keep up the good work!
I think you always do a great job of researching the topics of your posts (articles?), and that you do it both out of professional duty and personal interest. So no problem there.
And, what if you were based in Texas, near Foyt's team? Or Chicago near NewmanHaas and Coyne? Wouldn't that still count?
Someone said the "comments section" has reduced discussion to A: "Blah Blah is awesome!" B: Blah blah sucks and so you you! C: Eff you! You have a pretty good group that follows you George–I think that's a reflection of the way you write and edit your blog. So don't let the occasional yahoo get you down.
Also. If it makes you feel any better (according to Wikipedia) the official language of Brazil is Portuguese which is spoken by 99% of the people.
And also: please buy the Nashville track and sponsor an Indy race there before we run out of oval tracks. Thank you.
I really get tired of the elitist "I am Indy" crap. Living in Indianapolis is just living in a city in Indiana. It doesn't make you prescient or superior to any one else who loves racing. Indy is only 1 race out of many.
Let's not get carried away, Pete. I love Indy, love living outside of it, but I agree we Hoosiers don't have a monopoly on fandom. But Indy is not 1 race out of many, it's THE race out of many. 🙂
But yeah, living here doesn't make you any more a "true fan" than someone living in Trenton or Nashville or Toadsuck, Arkansas. If anything, it just means you're fortunate enough to have a closer commute to The Greatest Race Course In The World. 🙂
Perhaps your reader should start his own blog. He could call it "In the Loop". (Actually, that's not bad)
He could fill it with all of the awesome insider information that he gets from his aunt's first husband's brother's friend that lives near IMS.
In my opinion, anyone who has a sit down interview with Randy Bernard is "in the loop."
Let's see:
AJ Foyt is in TX, so he's "out of the loop"
Johnny Rutherford lives in TX, so he's "out of the loop"
Kevin Kalkovin lives in CA, so he's "out of the loop"
Jimmy Vasser lives in CA, so he's "out of the loop"
Bobby Rahal lives in OH, so he's "out of the loop"
Dario Franchitti lives in TN and Scotland so he's way out of the loop
Helio Castroneves lives in FL, so he's "out of the loop"
Mario, Michael & Marco all live in PA, nowheres near the loop
TK, Vitor, Scott Dixon are all in FL, over 900 miles from the loop
Izod is in NYC
APEX is in Brasil
Does "Mr Knowledgable in the Loop Critc" think all of these, plus most of the drivers, are "out of the loop"?
Deep breaths George, you've been the victim of a drive by of an internet keyboard commando. Someday he'll move out of Mommy's basement and accomplish something. Maybe, if he's lucky, he'll be as well regarded as you and your blog are!
Outside of the whole "in the loop" thing, which I think is a pretty specious argument, given the general high quality and information contained in your blogs, I have no idea what corrections the guy thought he was making.
Let's see: "…Sarah was only the face of the team and handled only the PR side. He then informed me that it was really her father-in-law John O'Gara and husband Andy O'Gara that really ran the team."
That's nice, fella, but I don't remember George making any assertions about who does what jobs at SFR in the original post. Or, maybe I just read too fast and skimmed over the parts where George said that Sarah personally picks the roll of helicopter tape that is applied to the car before each session and is the one who personally roasts the fine, fresh coffees that the team brews up in its transporter. It's called "splitting the responsibilities", dude. I think we all know how that works, but thanks for the master class in race team management.
"The reader also pointed out my not understanding that Dollar General made their decision long before the end of September and that had I been more in the loop, I would better understand PR spin from the teams."
Um, I think that George's original quote says it all here:
"But her celebration was somewhat tempered as she announced Dollar General's decision in victory lane. Although others may have known it, that was the first I had heard of it."
At no time did George claim that Dollar General told her that they weren't coming back for next year sometime in the middle of the Kentucky race, or when she was on her way to victory lane, or some other particular time. George said that he wasn't aware of Dollar General's leaving before Sarah said they were going during that victory lane interview. Funny, but I think I've heard quite a bit of surprise surrounding that bombshell, not just from George. Or, did I miss all of the columns from that previous Thursday from the "in the loop" types, breaking that news, and then just George was left in the dark until the end of the race on that Sunday?
Really, George, it's just some guy who feels like pointing out the shortcomings of others. Which is fun, and feels so good, but it helps when you actually have the skills to read and understand the original content. This guy gets a "zero" in that column.
Nice, Geek.
Dead on, Geek. Dead on. People need to learn to read for comprehension. George's critic sure as heck did not.
Let's see….looking over the blogs in my bookmarks, some locations are Nashville, Baltimore, Phoenix, Des Moines, and Toronto, and last I checked, Marshall Pruett is based out of San Francisco. All of those people are clearly out of the loop.
I grew up in the D.C. area, but I was just outside of the Beltway. That means I know nothing of how the politics of D.C. and the United States works.
Don't let the haters get ya down. Part of being in the public eye is that there is always some high school dropout who thinks they're better than you. However, being from Nashville, I do expect good insider info on the country music industry 😉
I live just north or Indy and don't feel very "in the loop" sometimes. It's nice that I can get from my driveway to the gates of IMS in 20-25 minutes and it's nice that I know people who work for several of the teams, but that doesn't make me more knowledgable than a passionate fan who lives outside the area. Sometimes I'm just glad that there still ARE passionate fans who aren't from central Indiana.
Don't sweat it George. That's like a person from Louisville telling someone who loves horse racing that they don't have a clue because they don't live in the shadow of the twin spires at Churchill Downs, or someone from Nashville telling others they can't have an opinion on country music.


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By Annie and Viktor Reinhardt
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83 pages; One copy free to research institutions and health professionals; All Others: $7
While implications of touch in interpersonal relationships among animals and humans has been debated for decades, Annie and Viktor Reinhardt's assiduous research into the subject makes a provocative, yet thoughtful case for its value in The Magic of Touch.
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