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The So-Called Great Demon of the Ocean
There are a great number of evils in this spiritually alive world. Many of these are called demons, devils, imps, and a variety of other monikers. The oceans, with their vast size and unknowable depths have traditionally a greater number of negative beings attached to them. These lesser demons are often known by their geographical domain, such as the Seven jawed demon of the Sargasso, or by their regular appearance such as Lharfu the wave-rider. These demons, regardless of their influence, power, or deeds are all relegated to an ancillary status to one specific demon; Ma-O. Some scholars and seasalts would scold me like a child for writing the name of the Great Demon of the Ocean, many going so far as to make warding gestures against their bodies. I find this level of superstition to be fascinating as the demon Ma-O rarely makes appearances more than once every 1000 or so years, and has no organized worship outside of a few widespread and disjoined death cults.
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Excerpt from the diaries of Siobhan, sailor of the Kestral-Angel
Spring 45, Year of our Blessing 3210…The Kestral-Angel has made good time, which is a boon. Our supplies of everything are thin to threadbare. The winds have tossed us six directions to the pole star and the navigator says he doesn't know where we are. Weather-eye says there will be bad storms for the week ahead, but the winged scouts have found an island, shelter. Maybe a chance to forage some provisions.
Spring 47, Year of our Blessing 3210…The island is a boon, as the storms are violent beyond the ken of even a seasoned sailor as the captain. We are battered even in the harbor. The seas are filled with rage, and with a spyglass we can sight things beyond the barrier island. Tentacles writhe in the water, each looking a cable-length long, and as big round as a bull. It should give me enough fright alone to have seen such a creature. The bosun called it Kraken, and said while rare, such giants were kings of the sea as sure as his Eminence is king of the land. I said it should, but in the storm I saw something more, something I cannot explain and cannot yet put to paper.
Spring 53, Year of our Blessing 3210…I am plagued by nightmares. The storms have abated and upon the shore was washed the corpse of the Kraken. It's body, as long as our ship three times over was rent and broken like a child's plaything. In my sleep I see the form of it's destroyer. Six pillars rising from the ocean, shrouded in mist and rain. They rise too high for me to see their tops, but I know what is there, each is capped with a head, loathsome and evil. It looked at me, it sighted me through the rain and the squall and looked through the spyglass and into my own eye. I am glad is was raining as none of the other crew were wise to the fact that my bladder was released such was my fright. Until my final day, I will recall those cold eyes burning into my soul, shining with an undescribable color.
Siobhan, along with five other sailors all committed suicide before the badly damaged and severely battered Kestral-Angel returned to a safe port.
The Dark Lord of the Ocean
Here are recorded the words of Irna, Sea-Witch and devoted of the Great Demon of the Ocean
The oceans are deep, filled with cold and darkness. This is not a place for the gods of men, not the golden haired ever-youthful god of the harvest or the whore goddesses of sex and lust. The oceans are among the most ancient of places, the domain of the elder gods. Some people, intent upon their divine superiority, call the elder gods demons and devils. What is good and what is evil to a being who predates life and death, the sun, moon, and stars? Ma-O, blessed is his name is the Dark Lord and God of the Oceans. The black depths are his home, the storms and the sharks are his minions. He cares not for the whey-like faith of men. He cares nothing for churches or congregations muttering prayers and begging while offering a pittance for his favor. His is an old god.
Call me a fool if you wish, I do worship Ma-O, blessed is his name and countenance. I do not bow my head, I scream his name into the face of his storms, I dance naked in the surf while it threatens to pull out to a watery death of dash me against the stones for a bloody end. I have slit the throats of lovers and dumped them into the water, I have drowned my own young, holding them in the brine until their eyes became glassy and their bodies limp in the surf. I offered the Dark One my own life, casting myself into the deepest water I could find. I drowned. Oddly enough I did not awake in your pretty idea of personal hell, I awoke on the beach, alive. I could feel his power within me. It was like laying with a man and finding him endowed as a horse. Ma-O's might filled me so that I was fearful that my body would burst, pain made me cry out and weep. But I live and I serve my God of the Deep, the one you so foolishly call a demon.
Primordials and Gods
Ma-O, the Great Demon of the Ocean is a Primordial God, one of the elder and alien beings that was largely responsible for the creation of the world. These elder gods are vastly removed from the realm of humanity and care nothing for the trials of mortals. Most of the Primordial beings have fallen into two major camps, those who have transcended and those who have been slain. The transcendant elder gods have given up their old mantles and have become alien gods of unknown power. They are also so far away from the level of humanity that they have no sway over man. Those elder gods who have been slain in truth are the demons and devils whose essence is trapped in the negative realms called commonly Hell. In fact, it is the death of a being that predates the concept of Death that created these hellish realms. Each greater Hell realm is the fortress-mausoleum-prison of a slain primordial. Ma-O and a few others remain menaces to the world as they have neither given up their ancient dominions, nor have they been overcome and slain or imprisoned by man, god, or elder being.
The Great Demon of the Ocean Reborn
Ma-O is the strongest and most powerful demon of the oceans. Thankfully for mankind, his interests and conflicts are not often with the land, but with the other greater denizens of the oceans, including other demons, powerful anima-gods, and most commonly, elemental lords. Ma-O's greatest rivalries are with the Elemental God-Kings of Magma and fire whose fortresses are underwater volcanoes and boiling abysses. Second to these are the tectonic Emperor-elementals that hold up the continents and the islands. Ma-O would most like to see the world swallowed up by the oceans, so that dry land and flame alike were both quenched.
Servants and Slaves
Ma-O is served by a great many beings of the deep ocean. His most ardent minions are Shark-Demons and infernally minded Kraken and leviathans. While Ma-O doesn't have a unified following, he does have several dozen small cults that worship him. These are the frightening types of cults as most are almost completely secret. They are also disturbing in the acts of evil that they will commit to honor their patron. The clerics of Ma-O are rare in the extreme, but those few that are, are always female and often insanely potent. These Sea-Witches can command storms, summon sea serpents, cause the dead to rise from the waves, and in one case, raise entire ships with undead crews from the oceans. A sea-witch can with a mark of ash, blood, and salt, make someone a slave to Ma-O, forced to do the bidding of the elder god or his servant the sea-witch.
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The Kimi is heading out into the Northron, out into the gray wastes north northwest of Vapori island. Even the locals don't travel this far out hunting for the whales. The wind is stiff and cold, and some of the ropes have snapped for ice and wind. But the sun is shining, and we are not alone. For a time, a school of dolphins rode out bow wave, dancing in the water. Some of the men fancied harpooning one for dinner but the captain, bless his boots, convinced them otherwise. The dolphins stayed with us for two days. There was a spot of storming, and it calmed. We found something wondrous then.
Dearest, there are unicorns that swim in the seas. They look akin to dolphins but they are larger, and from their head they have a spiraling horn almost a fathom long. We laughed and hooted at the creatures and in turn they whistled at us and sent up plumes of mist from their blowholes. All the while we never saw sight of a decent whale to take with the spears and the longboat. For lack of harpooning, we dropped the nets and trawled the cold waters. By the time we returned to Narva, the Kimi's holds were stuffed with sea cod the size of a man.
A Light in the Dark
Not all is darkness and doom, there are forces that have for ages balanced the might of Ma-O. Otherwise, the Great Demon of the Ocean would have long ago brought the ruin of the land and quenching of all flames. The Anima-Gods of the Whales and the Wise creatures of the sea have always stood against Ma-O and his deep and cold blooded ways. The chief and foremost of his opponents is Ithy-Ra, the Sun Dolphin and the Laughing Wave. This patron of islanders, joy and fertility is a great foe of Ma-O and his main warriors, the shark-spirits.
Second, but not certainly any less potent is Rorqual the Ice Singer, Sheppard of the Ice Floes and Cold Seas. As the unicorn of the seas, the narwhal whale ventures deep into the war to destroy the unnamed beasts and horrors that come creeping up from the depths; strange sightless fish, monstrosities that are all jaws and little body and things stranger.
The largest and most potent of the Anima-Whales is the ancient Physeter, the cachalot whale. Greater in size than all but the most grand and massive of ships, this whale god is the slayer of Krakens, and his appearance is enough to send a shoal of shark-kin warriors fleeing for their cold and empty lives.
Recollections of a Sea-Priestess, Marylenna of Cote Tora
I remember one day, when I was still very young to the spirits of the sea, and while I swam with a dolphin, I asked of it, Is not man the most wicked of creatures? I was very proud of my gifts, and scornful of the other folk who lived off of the sea but did not share my reverence for it. Dolphin spoke to me, telling me I was foolish and did not know wickedness, for even men have the potential to be good, and most have goodness in their hearts even if their eyes are closed and the deeds of the hands ignorant. So I asked again, the shark, he must be the most wicked of creatures for all he does is kill and swim in blood and eat. Again Dolphin laughed and called me foolish. Shark is as shark is. And shark is a cunning hunter, and most sharks only take the weak and the old, the sick and injured, keeping the others strong and healthy. This is the way of the ocean. Just as man, there are wicked sharks who do kill not for food, but to just swim in the blood and for the lust of murder and death.
Dolphin showed me what the face of wickedness was. In my mind's eye I saw a silent storm, it's force greater than the cyclones that come out of the tropical seas. In the center there was a beast, it was made of roaring water and hatred, a dozen necks rising from the water. Each was huge and I felt faint with fright. Some of the necks would fatten, and split in half obscenely to create two entirely new necks. Wicked and evil heads sat atop the roaring waterspouts, each jaw opening, howling obscenities into the heavens. I was afraid even as one head turned and bit off another and absorbed it's shrinking pillar of a neck into itself. Rage, hatred, all boiling at a frantic pace. And it radiated malice and anger, and hatred and feeling for which humans cannot experience and thus cannot name.
Dolphin took me to the shore then. I wept, knowing that such a thing could exist in a world of bright corals and happy fish. Even shark seemed kindly in the face of such a thing. It was nearly a week before I entered the water again, and it was not without a taint of fear.
Roleplaying Notes
Ma-O is the great demon of the ocean, an idea that Cheka took and made into a submission about three years ago. Seeing the Oceanic quest, I felt inspired to write up Ma-O as I envisioned the great demon of the ocean. As the great demon of the ocean (really all oceans) Ma-O is the fear of the unknown depths and all the horrors from the harmless angler fish which looks gruesome and horrific to the below freezing waters that can kill with only a few minutes exposure. Most of all, Ma-O is the hatred of the storms that come on the ocean, unimpeded by natural terrain like mountains or forests.
Most sane games will never see a group of NPCs facing Ma-O in battle. I envisioned Ma-O almost as irresistible as the elements themselves or the changing of the seasons. Most of the time, the Great Demon of the Ocean rarely notices the goings on of human nations let alone a few upstart heroes. But what would be more heroic that facing a nigh invincible demon-god from flooding and destroying a nation, hunting down and slaying a cell of Drowned Cultists, or finding relics of the past and hints that Ma-O comes like a Biblical plague and it is up to the PCs to figure out what or who has drawn the seething hatred of the demon god of water.
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The teachers decorated 'calacas', went through the process of making sugar skullsand then decorated some pre-made sugar skulls with colorful royal icing, created mini-altars in cigar boxes and painted Catrina-shaped fridge magnets. If you've ever worked with a group of kids on a project and you hear groans when you say "ok everyone, 5 more minutes and then we're going to move on" you would be completely familiar with the sounds we heard from this group of teachers! They were so excited to continue working on their mini-altars, creating tiny bouquets of flowers out of modeling clay, cutting out tiny papel picado from construction paper, building stairways and platforms for their tiny clay loaves of bread to perch upon… these teachers were going to town! After the allotted time for hands-on activities had finished for the night David Temple took the group on a flashlight tour of the Hall of the Americas and the Paleontology Hall. Then some teachers decided to call it a night, but others asked to be able to go back and work on their altars – how could we say no!?
By about 3 am, everyone had finally headed up to bed and then it seemed like only moments later I was waking everyone up for breakfast at 7 am! Just imagine, those teachers were up in time for school on Friday and still up at 3am on Saturday morning with plenty of energy – that's absolutely incredible! I hope that they took their projects back to share with their students and spread the enthusiasm for Dia de los Muertos they shared with us at the Overnight!


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Speculation is mounting that the next instalment of the Star Wars saga is to be filmed in Malin Head.
The Derry Journal understands that film location scouts from Lucasfilm recently visited the area and are expected to return in May for filming.
Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the world's highest grossing movie, was filmed in part on the Kerry island of Skellig Michael. The cast and crew are currently filming the first scenes of 'Episode VIII' in Kerry.
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers will celebrate one of the most beloved teams in club history Saturday, May 25, when they pay tribute to the 1968 World Series Champion Tigers at Comerica Park. The Tigers will host the Minnesota Twins at 4:05 p.m. and fans are encouraged to arrive early to be in their seats to enjoy the pregame festivities, which begin at 3:40 p.m. Gates open at 2:00 p.m.
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José Feliciano will perform the national anthem. Feliciano performed "The Star Spangled Banner" prior to Game 5 of the 1968 World Series between the Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals at Tiger Stadium, a game the Tigers won 5-3 on October 7.
Players and coaches from the '68 team scheduled to attend include:
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Don Wert - Third base #8
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The tribute will continue with a special video tribute on the Comerica Park HD scoreboard created specifically for this event. The video will be followed by an on-field, pregame ceremony to recognize the members of the 1968 team. In addition to all of the pregame festivities, one member of the 1968 team will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Tigers play-by-play radio broadcaster Dan Dickerson will serve as master of ceremonies.
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Micron Technology has unveiled a new portfolio of solid-state drives (SSD) for the fast-growing flash-based notebook market. Dubbed RealSSD C400, the new series is the first SSD product line to incorporate Micron's 25nm NAND flash technology, creating a broad portfolio of capacities ranging from 64GB to 512GB. The drives will be available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors.
As with its predecessor, the new RealSSD C400 also supports the SATA 6Gb/s interface, which opens up the data path between the host processor and the SSD delivering improved overall system responsiveness including faster boot times and speedier application loads. The new drives reach read speeds up to 415MB/s, which is 17% faster than Micron's previous generation drives. With write performance varying by capacity, the new 512GB drive achieves up to 260MB/s write speeds, which is more than 20% faster than the fastest C300 drive.
Micron said it is currently working with notebook manufacturers to qualify the new RealSSD drives under the C400 product name. With samples of the RealSSD C400 drives available now, the company expects mass production to begin in February.
Bringing the drives to business customers and consumers, Crucial, a division of Micron, will begin selling the portfolio under the name, m4 SSD. The Crucial m4 SSD product line is expected to be available online and through select global channel partners in the first quarter of 2011.
"SSDs are bringing excitement back into personal computing," said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron. "Micron is accelerating this enthusiasm with our new RealSSD portfolio, providing even greater performance and higher capacities than our previous generation SSDs."
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T-Mobile Sets This iPhone Deadline
T-Mobile has confirmed that it will start officially selling the iPhone in about three to four months, though the carrier declined to disclose details about its agreement with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Chief executive John Legere told Reuters in an interview that the company would also enforce its plan to get rid of phone subsidies at the same time.
"They're all, I would call them, in three to four months as opposed to six to nine months," Legere said while at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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On Tuesday, the Deutsche Telekom unit had announced that despite not being an official Apple partner carrier, it had almost 2 million iPhones operating on its network, with more than 100,000 new activations coming every month. T-Mobile's chief technology officer Neville Ray added through a statement that the company's first LTE market will roll out in Las Vegas over the next "two to three weeks."
Eliminating mobile phone subsidies may give T-Mobile an additional market share of 5 percent or higher, Legere estimated, because the plan would give customers more flexibility and lower service prices than those of rivals such as AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ). "If the old industry structure chooses to ignore what we do," he said, "That's a potential."
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T-Mobile is set to merge with current rival MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS) in the second quarter of the year and is currently awaiting regulatory approval on the deal. Legere added he was looking at further mergers as well, including a potential relationship with satellite provider Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) or smaller rival Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP).
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Exterior Design: **** The 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman S preserves much of the styling moxie possessed by the original while hiding much of the added heft. At a distance, it's nearly impossible to differentiate between the two variations, causing us to do more than one double-take. The only major giveaway is the 50/50 split rear barn doors with through-door tail lamps and the suicide door on the passenger side. But a front 3/4 view will make you swear you're looking at the original "S."
Interior Design: *** The interior of the Clubman is mostly identical to its smaller brother from the cockpit-view forward. Rail-protected flight switches control much of the electrics while a delightfully gaudy speedometer dominates the center console. Every compartment, toggle and switch functions with the usual high level of BMW confidence. But don't even get us started on the Toys R' Us-grade plastic. In this price range, a buyer deserves a little better. Also, the color-selectable mood lighting is a little too Focus-like for our liking.
Acceleration: ** The turbocharged Peugeot mill pulls the Clubman forward at a reasonable rate, but it's nothing remarkable. Pushing its power through narrow front tires usually results in tire spin through first gear, followed by an embarrassing lurch backwards as one of the many on-board nanny computers pulls the plug. We really miss the supercharged MINI engine of old. Braking: ***** A hallmark trait of the MINI brand is retro-thruster-like braking prowess in both models. At any speed and on any road surface condition, the combination of superior braking hardware, a stiff pedal and intelligent programming brings you to a halt pronto. Ride: ** Although the Clubman rides much more smoothly over rough surfaces than the standard model due to the longer wheelbase, it is still a tiny car which is easily upset by potholes and cracks. The stiffer springs and dampers offered by the S package degrade the ride further but the car remains livable for the daily drag. Handling: *** The Clubman fell far short of it's brethren when it came to sticking it around the curves. On sections of road where the smaller model would play along, the Clubman packed up its toys and went home. The clumsiness is due as much to increased weight and altered suspension geometry as to a significant change in the stability programming towards slower driving. Gearbox: **** An intelligent autobox is where the MINI Clubman really earned its stars. In standard mode, the Clubman offered quick and properly timed shifts while returning excellent fuel mileage. In sport mode, it downshifted at precisely the right moments to stay in the narrow meat of the power band. Audio: **** The audio system produced accurate, crisp sound through well-placed tweeters and midranges. The head unit proved easy to navigate using either the console or steering wheel controls. We're also immensely grateful that iDrive didn't make it to the MINI line up. Yet. Toys: *** The Clubman had a reasonable amount of gadgets, from the Bluetooth synchronization to the color-selectable interior mood lighting. Dual glove boxes and plenty of cup holders offered enough storage for anything you might need to carry. Value: ** At an as-tested MSRP of $32,350, the Mini Cooper Clubman S doesn't add up to a good buy. With a price nearly 50% higher than that of other cars competing in this category, you've really got to want the social cred provided by its one-of-a-kind styling and reputation. And the interior materials? Gag. If you're looking for power and handling in a similarly sized package at a bargain price, it'd be best to look elsewhere. Overall: *** The Mini Cooper Clubman S offers acceptable power and adept handling at a steep price. The added mass pushes the car into a larger class and significantly hindering the driving charm established by the Mini brand. The added rear legroom and cargo space may attract a different type of buyer to the fold, but it tosses aside the successful formula used in the smaller version. Frankly, if you're that "different type" of buyer, you'll probably be better off with the non-S version. On the other hand, if you're like us, you'll take the standard-issue Cooper S. Preferably anywhere you go. Also See: • Mini Cooper Clubman S, Part One Thanks to the folks at Motor City Mini!
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Exterior Design: **** The 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman S preserves much of the styling moxie possessed by the original while hiding much of the added heft. At a distance, it's nearly impossible to differentiate between the two variations, causing us to do more than one double-take. The only major giveaway is the 50/50 split rear barn doors with through-door tail lamps and the suicide door on the passenger side. But a front 3/4 view will make you swear you're looking at the original "S."


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Temperatures have yet to even feel consistently spring- like, however �The Boys of Summer� have been hard at work for weeks, months even, honing their skills on the baseball diamond.
High school squads are already into conference play. South Point is undefeated and playing like a legit 3A state title contender. In Lincoln County, it looks as if West Lincoln or East Lincoln are in control of the Southern Piedmont Conference.
Soon, though, spring will turn to summer, and, like clockwork, more big crowds will flock to Sims Legion Park to see the Gastonia Grizzlies.
Billed as �The Best Show in Town,� the Grizzlies do offer a little something for everyone. Diehard baseball fans can see college players competing in a wood-bat league. And, of course, even if you aren�t into the action on the field, there are cold beverages down the left field line.
Even children who don�t know the difference between a double play and a grand slam can still enjoy the festivities. They can hang out with the mascot, Chizzle , enjoy a number of games, and gaze at postgame fireworks displays held several times during the season.
The excitement of American Legion Baseball isn�t too far down the road, as well. Cherryville Post 100, Gastonia Post 23 and the Gaston Braves will all field teams with the first goal of reaching the North Carolina State Tournament in Wilson. From there, the Southeast Regional is in Asheboro and, of course, the World Series is held in nearby Shelby. It�s only a matter of time before a local team reaches the World Series, adding even more excitement to the annual event in Cleveland County.
Bessemer City�s Kevin Millwood has represented Gaston County in Major League Baseball for 16 years, but this offseason he decided to hang up his cleats. Many will remember Millwood for his years in Atlanta, teaming with Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz for one of the more formidable starting pitching rotations of the 1990s. The right-hander was an All-Star in 1999 and finished third in the Cy Young voting that year. He went on to pitch for six more major league teams.
Another Gaston County graduate, South Point�s Mitch Harris, is now looking to begin his MLB career � improbably at the age of 27. After fulfilling his nine-year commitment to the Navy, Harris is in spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals. The former Red Raider should get a chance to at least pitch in the minor leagues this year. Even if he doesn�t reach his ultimate major league dream, his perseverance � and service to our country � is something that will be admired.
From the smallest of local T-ball squads, to travelling All-Star teams, all the way up to the professional ranks, baseball continues to play an important role in Gaston County and the surrounding area.
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Many people don't understand the differences between stocks and bonds. It occurred to me recently that even those who invest in these types of securities through either personal investment accounts or retirement plans can't really articulate what the differences are. I've noticed that people have a general idea- such as associating stocks more with risk and bonds more with safety, but that's about the extent of it. While both are types of investments which can earn you money, they are different as night and day in terms of the potential risks and rewards.
When you buy a share of stock, you are actually taking ownership in the company in which you are investing. For example, consider the hypothetical example of Russell's Fast Food Palace. If it were a publicly traded company divided into 1 million shares and you bought 1,000 of them, you'd be a .001% shareholder of the Fast Food Palace. As a result, you'd share in both the profits and losses of the company throughout the years. You'd probably want to pay attention to news that affects both the Fast Food market and the economy in general. One of the potential risks in buying 1,000 shares of the Fast Food Palace is that it will experience some sort of problem, such as people realizing fast food is very unhealthy. If this news was publicized enough, less people might come into the stores.
This could potentially decrease the company's revenues and, ultimately, the stock price would decline. The opposite would be if my food became so popular that every airport in the United States decided to put a Fast Food Palace inside. This would be incredible news for shareholders because it would generate much more foot traffic, higher revenues, and higher profits.
A bond does not represent ownership in a corporation. Let's say Russell's Food Palace wanted to raise money to open 10 more stores, but they didn't want to divide up the company any further. They might sell bonds instead of issuing stock. Rather than owning a piece of the company, the bondholder becomes a creditor of Russell's Food Palace who will be paid back over the life of the bond.
The difference is that the return you will earn on your money as a bondholder is generally a fixed percentage such as 5% or 7% annually. If the bond lasts for 10 years, you will get interest each year for the 10 years, and then your principal investment returned to you at expiration date. If you buy a bond from a small, risky company, there is the possibility that the company will go under and you'll never see some of your interest payments or principal investment ever again. This is rare however, and it's more likely, in the short term, to lose money in the stock market than the bond market.
Which is better investment? Well, it totally depends on where you are in life and what your tolerance for risk is. I'd rather own something for a period of years in hope for growth, then lend somebody $20 and know I'm getting $25 back in 5 years. Thus, I would probably consider myself more of a stock investor. However, the bondholder may very well feel safer and more secure with his/her investment choice. The ideal long-term portfolio would probably have a little bit of each.
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Here it is, the very first clip from the Science Channel's Firefly 10-year anniversary special, Browncoats Unite. This new clip reveals that the special won't simply be footage taken from the tear-filled panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
Looks like the actors are going to sit down by romantic light and hash out all the gritty details that happened on set a decade ago. Yup, we're going to cry through this whole thing. Browncoats Unite will air on November 11 at 10:00 PM. [Via Entertainment Weekly]


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JSC 2011 Scholarship Results Download 2012 – All Education Boards Bangladesh
JSC 2011 Scholarships results have been published on May 5, 2012. We have collected results of all JSC students from all boards for easy download.
The students on the merit list will receive Tk 300 a month and Tk 375 at a time each year during their studies in classes 9-10, while those in the general category will receive Tk 200 a month and Tk 220 at a time each year.
The scholarship recipients will also get free studentship for the next two years. Action will be taken against the educational instituting, enjoying the grant, if it claims tuition fees from the selected students. The students must continue their studies to keep receiving the scholarship.
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In JSC, 30,800 scholarships would be awarded among the students of general boards while 6,000 were allocated for JDC.
GPA-2.00 would be the minimum eligibility to get scholarship in general category while GPA-3 would the minimum eligibility to get scholarship in talent pool category.
In talent pool category under JSC exams, a student would get scholarship money of Tk 300 per month and Tk 375 per year for two years. In general category, the students would get Tk 200 per month and Tk 225 per year for two years, the draft said, adding the same amounts also apply for JDC or madrasa students.
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Anchor ButtonsSeptember 17, 2008
I can't be the only one bored to tears of simple border and background colour styling for button formatting.
I recently worked on an application that used a common graphical button style across all pages, but didn't offer common HTML elements to work with. Some of the buttons were clearly better implemented as
a elements, whereas the rest were proper
input buttons.
This is, of course, maddening. There's literally no way to format an
a and an
input element identically across all browsers, aside from hard-wiring the text of that button into an image and using it to replace the element. That's not exactly a viable fix on an application with dozens or hundreds of buttons.
I needed a middle ground. Images were necessary to pull off things like bevels and rounded corners and gradients and all those effects that make a button look like a button. But I needed HTML text to allow for easy button creation, and preferably in a way that would allow me to use both anchors and buttons interchangeably.
So I pulled up the Particletree button article from a few years back and went to work. After converting the
input elements to
buttons, I was able to work through most major cross-browser issues and come up with a set of styles that worked well on both those and anchor elements. You can see the results here, or download the source and images.
some of the comments lead me to believe I wasn't clear enough about what's happening in these examples. You'll see three sets of two buttons rendered identically side-by-side. On the left, the button is being constructed with the
button element. On the right, the button is instead constructed with the
a element. Same visual styling, but different markup.
This is just an incremental update over ground the original Particletree article has covered well, so I won't bother writing up a detailed explanation. You've got the theory, and I think a quick look at the source ought to make the method fairly apparent.
A couple of caveats though: obviously there were concessions made in terms of extra markup for the sake of background images. And IE6/IE7 naturally don't want to play fair; there's a conditional comment that pulls in a touch-up CSS file for alignment, and it was necessary to fix the button widths to a hard pixel value. All other browsers expand and contract the buttons gracefully along with the text size, but IE marches to its own beat once again. And Chrome was launched in between when I originally built the demo page and today as I write this, but a quick look tells me it does the right thing.
Share and enjoy.
Interesting article. I consider a appropriate use of buttons and anchors. Another approach which heavily lacks on browser issues is the use of select-elements optical as a set of buttons. One line can float them all. ;-)
I will write an article about this in the next weeks and will show it.
I have avoided the button tag because of the way IE posts the form submit. I have not found a way to cleanly work with more than 1 button tag in a form without using JavaScript to make it work. I am looking forward to seeing how you implement this.
Dave, I've always considered the input type="button" to be evil as well and have since switched to the button element simply because it seems more robust and because it is easier to target with css for older browsers (cough, ie6).
Perhaps when CSS8 comes out in 2020 we'll have better control with styling form elements.
I've used a lot of different approaches to that problem, and I've landed on a similar approach, though not as infested by div's.
My solution for this is :
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This gives me the option to use the sliding doors effect with two images, or a plain version with border and background-color with an icon in the span using nested classes on the anchor.
Really nice tip! I think this is one of those simple little things that everyone misses, but is really useful to know about.
Very nice examples.
I, too, am interested to see how you can cleanly implement the button tag in conjunction with its IE quirks.
To those saying just use an 'a' link for the button - this isn't suitable enough (without JavaScript assistance) to handle true POST requests.
You planning on using some JavaScript to assist you in the process?
Since from some of the comments I don't think I made it clear enough what's happening in these demos, I went back and added a bit more explanation.
Like Mike Cravey above, I too have always avoided the element because of it's strange behavior in IE.
Despite the standard warnings, I've always just styled submit elements with pretty good results. The only visual problems I've noticed are usually within Opera or Camino.
Of course, I failed to double-check the preview before posting. It should have read:
"…avoided the <button> element…"
"…styled <input type="submit"/> elements…"
Nice examples but I thought (and correct me if this is not the case) that the buttons were supposed to expand and contract with text SIZE as well as length…
The ones we use over at GCap (and Yahoo use the same technique) do this and can be seen at www.capitalradio.co.uk - check out the search button at the top of the page and associated CSS with FireBug - there are IE styles, until I write up a post about them you'll just have to be creative in how you find those out :>
Dave, the problem that some are referring to is the way IE 6/7 submits the button's value.
More detailed info here:
The fix is to use either JS, or an IE7 only workaround to send the proper value through.
You can take a look at my solution which is using a, span and em tags.
Nicely done. And thanks for the nice xkcd reference in the sample buttons, made me lough out loud cause it was so unexpected.
I used the Particletree solution a while ago but ditched it in favor of styled type=submit inputs; mostly because there was a black border around the button element in IE that I couldn't get rid of.
A nice article!
Fraser - I beg to differ: As long as you use the :hover on the anchor and nest the selector on the span like:
a.button {/* style here */}
a.button span {/* style here */}
a.button:hover {/* style here */}
a.button:hover span {/* style here */}
Then you got full power.
Example here: http://muff.no/kunder/test/button_Test.html
(never mind the misaligned graphics…)
But you would have to use javascript to submit the forms - which really isn't a good solution.
We use 'sexy' css buttons from
They work pretty well, especially in IE.
Ah, right, the IE submit problem. Goes to show how much time I do back-end processing, I'd completely forgotten about that.
So, no, I don't have a fix for that; I was mainly interested in the front end here.
@wolf: Did you figure out how to get rid of the black border?
@Dave: You've got a neat example of how to style buttons and anchors but it seems to me that you spent a quiet some time working on that. I've been working on a similar solution myself without being success yet. Getting the images to line up is the hard part. I don't know if you noticed it but your buttons flickr back and forth between images in IE/6 and IE/7 It's weird!
@Juliano Moreira: no, I never figured that one out, I don't think it's possible.
I don't like it much.
I prefer CSS Globe's way,
or Google Analytics way.
(Inspect google analytics button, with Firebug and check it out).
Nate, I think the trick with the BUTTON element is to use it only to submit a form, but not to submit any information itself. For that, use INPUT elements (type="hidden").
This was the subject of recent discussion on Drew's site:
I also have had to fight the problem of a black border around button elements in IE. Very annoying. I think cross browser functionality has been my biggest challenge in every project this year.
Somehow the outline on the anchor, when it is focused, is no longer visible in Firefox (3). This is kind of an accessibility issue.
The buttons are working fine.
@Ignacio Ricci: I believe those are all *buttons*, not buttons and *anchors* styled similarly!
I still can't get over the havoc that the text-transform property wreaks in IE6 on button styling..
I was pulling my hair out on a button with a background image and perhaps it was a magical combo of previous junk-perties assigned trying to get it to work, but upon distillation of the CSS, IE6 rendered the text-transform: uppercase to act as an image replacement's negative text indent… Whoa.
I'm surprised. It's always seemed to me that the majority of people strongly behind web standards were also the people strongly against styling native form widgets (and scrollbars).
I think in the long run us form-stylers will come out on top. The more people use more than 1 OS and rely on web-apps more than desktop apps, the less they'll care about an app being consistent with the OS instead of consistent across browsers and platforms


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Mana Changes:
- Starfire now costs 11% of base mana, down from 16%.
- Wrath now costs 9% of base mana, down from 14%.
- Euphoria now restores 8/16% (up from 6/12%) mana when you reach a Solar or Lunar eclipse.
I do want to point one thing out about the current mana situation. When we talk about mana issues we are primarily talking about two subjects: Mana Consumption, and Mana Pool/Regen.
- Mana Consumption: As a caster DPS spec we cast as much as possible. So, how much mana we use is dependant on the length of the fight and the number of breaks in a fight. If you look at the Instances in WotLK you will notices that fight length does change from fight to fight, but doesn't really change from instance to instance. Therefore our mana consumption should be fairly constant through out the Cataclysm.
Mana Pool/Regen: Our mana pool is determined by our Intellect, and most of our mana regen is based off of our mana pool. Therefore our mana pool/regen will be highly variable over the course of Cataclysm.
Thorns Nerfed:
- Thorns damage reduced by 66%
Hopefully this will turn Thorns into a situational spell for PvE. Best use at the beginning of a fight or when adds are about to spawn. When it comes to PvP I don't know what I'm talking about, but I do know this is a pretty big loss. That said I think it still has some teeth.
Moonfire Buffed:
- Moonfire base additional damage increased by 50%.
New Tree of Life:
As a general rule I don't care that much about what things look like in game. I am much more concerned about how things play. That said, we know that Blizzard has an art department, and if they are going to have an art department I want them to produces some things I think are cool to look at.
That said, I like the new tree of life form, and I'm glad it's not just a reskin of an Ancient. Hopefully this means they will get around to redoing the moonkin forms some time soon much like they did the feral forms.
Other Changes:
- Starfire cast time changed to 3.2 sec, down from 3.5 sec.
- Entangling Roots now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.
- Cyclone now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.
- Moonfury now also affects Starsurge.
Raid Warning Podcast: The Druid Roundtable
The Druid Roundtable from the Raid Warning Podcast is now available for you listening pleasure. I had a lot of fun being apart of it and I don't think I sounded to bad.
What I found really interesting was how many moonkin were involved. When I started blogging 3 years ago there were a ton of resto and feral experts, but moonkin experts were few and far between. Of the 13 druids involved in the podcast 9 were noted moonkin and only Lissanna and Hamlet realy did double duty as Resto. We have come a long way.


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Pete jumps right in... To his new role at CT.
My transition to Circle Track has been nothing less than turbulent. Not because Editor Fisher has piled on work (which he has), or because putting together solid technical information isn't easy (it can be extremely difficult), but because the first two months of my tenure at CT has also been spent tying up loose ends and completing my commitments to Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords magazines. These publications are vastly different. Obviously, CT is much more "race oriented" but beyond that, the mindset when writing about racing technology is completely different than talking about street performance. The technology is evolving and advancing on an almost daily basis, so keeping up with it is a task all its own. The heavy technical aspect of CT is a welcomed departure from street cars and feature stories, but as an editor, it takes a lot to bounce back and forth between the style and culture of the two books.
Tackling 14 pages of editorial each month isn't difficult. Add 28 pages on a second magazine one month, and 16 the next, and things get a lot more complicated. I love my job, but it can get overwhelming. Fortunately, I'm one of those people who works well under pressure. (I think I turn out better material when I'm under the gun–which I learned working in a race shop.)
Thrashing to finish a car to make a race, or fixing a car at the track to make a feature is something we have all come up against at some point. The best way I've found to handle these situations is to jump in with both feet and dig your way out. For me, the excitement when things come down to the wire makes it fun–especially in racing.
I can think of numerous times when we tore a car or truck in a heat race and didn't have much time to fix it to make the feature. One time at the now defunct Flemington Speedway, we got tagged in the quarter-panel in the last lap of our heat race. The fiberglass body was destroyed, but worse, the rearend was now S shaped. We were running for a division championship and missing the feature was not an option. Luckily (or not so luckily), another racer had blown his engine, and told us we could use his rearend–but we had to pull it from his truck. We had about an hour until the feature, and we went to work. Thirty-eight minutes later, the rear was swapped and we taped the body up as much as possible to give us some sort of aero.
We didn't win that day, but it will always stand out in my mind as one of my favorite racing memories. Making the race when everyone counted us out was just as good as winning that day!


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Magnificent Germany shatters Brazil's World Cup dream
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: Germany scored five goals in 18 astonishing first-half minutes on its way to a 7-1 semifinal mauling of Brazil on Tuesday which shattered the host nation's hopes of winning their sixth World Cup.
It was the most shocking result in the tournament's history, Brazil's record World Cup defeat and its first at home in 64 competitive matches since 1975.
Germany will meet Argentina or the Netherlands in Sunday's final in Rio de Janeiro after an unbelievable performance in which striker Miroslav Klose became the tournament's highest scorer of all time with his 16th World Cup goal.
"We started really super," Klose said in a televised interview. "We had such a great harmony, you can see that in training. We're a real unit and we showed that on the pitch today."
The only consolation on a day of abject misery for Brazil after a match featuring truly abject defending from Luiz Felipe Scolari's men was a goal from Oscar in the dying minutes.
"I just wanted to make my people happy," Brazil defender David Luiz said. "Unfortunately, we couldn't. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to all Brazilians, I just wanted to see them smile, everyone know how important it was.
"They were the best, they prepared better, they played better, we let in four goals in six minutes. It is a very sad day and we we'll learn from it."
Thomas Mueller started the rout with an 11th-minute volley and although Germany looked to be the better team after an early period of Brazil pressure, there was little indication of the devastation about to be unleashed.
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Brazil played without injured forward Neymar and suspended captain and defensive linchpin Thiago Silva and it was the latter's absence that proved far more costly.
The hosts' defense simply caved in.
They conceded four times between the 23rd minute when Klose made it 2-0 and the 29th when Sami Khedira put Germany 5-0 in front. Andrea Schuerrle, who replaced Klose in the 58th minute added two more, the second an angled shot that flew in off the crossbar.
With Germany 1-0 ahead, Klose scored from a rebound after goalkeeper Julio Cesar saved his initial shot for his 16th goal in his 23rd World Cup appearance.
But worse was to follow for Brazil a minute later when Toni Kroos, lurking with intent but unmarked at the edge of the area, smashed home with the outside of his left foot to make it 3-0.
He scored again just two minutes to make it 4-0 and Brazil's pain continued when Khedira made it 5-0 after a one-two with Mesut Ozil in the 29th minute.
Any hopes Brazil had of saving the game ended there but to their credit they rallied at the start of the second and forced a series of saves from Germany keeper Manuel Neuer before Schuerrle struck after 69 and 79 minutes.
Oscar's late goal was greeted by an ironic cheer from the shocked, stunned home fans who were in tears at the end of the most incredible World Cup game ever played.


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That might seem like the plot of a bad movie, but since around 2010, police agencies in San Diego County have quietly used a network of sophisticated devices called license-plate readers (LPR) to monitor and record the movements of thousands of everyday drivers. Even as you read this, police cars equipped with LPR are patrolling the streets, automatically scanning and photographing every license plate in sight, tagging each with a GPS coordinate and filing the information away. For years.
With 36 million scans and counting—an average of 14 for every registered vehicle in the county—the database provides a mappable, searchable record of the movements of thousands of individual drivers. It's sort of like FourSquare for cops, except that it's involuntary, the data is secret and there aren't quite as many narcissistic hipsters.
The system's become a routine part of police work in San Diego County. Investigators at several local agencies say the historical data, stored in a database maintained by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), allows police to challenge alibis, locate witnesses and generally nab a lot of bad guys. It's not just local cops who use it; the FBI, DEA and investigators with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are also tapping into SANDAG's records, leveraging the broader community presence of local police to prosecute federal crimes and immigration violations.
Police say LPR is the future of law enforcement, a Robocop-style "force multiplier" that maximizes what officers can accomplish. But privacy advocates say the sheer volume of information collected, and the indiscriminate logging of mostly innocent people's movements, amounts to a broad system of surveillance.
"With so much data, it becomes very easy to build a composite picture of what a person is doing, and to reveal an enormous amount of personal information, simply by tracking their movements," says David Loy, legal director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. When police can pull up a map of your travels—visits to your church or mosque, your doctor's office or weekly AA meeting—they have access to a great deal of sensitive information. "It becomes analogous to GPS tracking without a warrant," Loy says.
Most of the LPR devices in San Diego County are vehicle-mounted, but there are also portable LPR that can be set up at special events, and fixed devices installed at hotspot terrorist targets, or other places deemed worthy of monitoring, like along Highway 94 in East County.
The system's coverage is impressive. Lt. Glenn Giannantonio of the San Diego County Sheriffs Department says that when he types in a suspect's plate number, he can be confident that he's going to get a hit. "If it's a normal person driving around, you can pretty much guarantee that the car's going to get scanned," he says.
He seems to be right. According to information gleaned from a public-records request, my Subaru was scanned, and its location logged, 24 times in the past 13 months.
SANDAG declined to release the full details of the records, so there's no telling what scandalous predicaments I've been implicated in. But Dale Stockton, who manages the system for SANDAG, says that most of the reads occurred on a particular North Park street, not far from my home. This is typical of the system, Stockton says. If you happen to live on a heavily patrolled street, you're more likely to appear in the database frequently.
San Diego County's system is unusual; it's one of the most seamlessly integrated LPR databases in the U.S. Thirteen different agencies operating at least 56 units—each one costs about $25,000—all send their information to a shared, countywide server.
That the SANDAG system spans the county is especially troubling to privacy experts. In most of the U.S., individual agencies keep their own data in their own systems, making it hard to search across jurisdictions.
Stockton says the interconnectivity of the data systems is critical to making LPR a useable technology for law enforcement in the county. "The value is in the data, but the value is only there if we can share with each other," Stockton says. Criminals don't respect town boundaries.
SANDAG's system is worth paying attention to, because it may offer a glimpse into the future of LPR. As more and more departments acquire the technology—the majority of U.S. police departments already have at least one unit— shared systems like SANDAG's will likely serve as a model.
When LPR devices first showed up in the arsenals of local police more than a decade ago, they were used mainly to look for unregistered drivers and bums with overdue parking citations—less Robocop, more Bionic Meter Maid—and LPR is still used for this kind of real-time, "hot list" policing. As the device scans license plates nearby, it compares each one to a list of known, wanted vehicles. When there's a match, an alarm sounds inside the cruiser. San Diego Police Department spokesperson Lt. Andra Brown says in an email statement that LPR has been especially helpful in finding stolen cars with this kind of instant alert. But that application is becoming secondary to the mining of data.
Grants from the federal government, primarily the Department of Homeland Security, provided much of the funding for the county's LPR system. In an elegantly circular arrangement, Homeland Security agencies like ICE are now reaping the fruits of that largesse, by tapping into local databases for their own investigations.
Christian Ramirez, human-rights director for the socialjustice group Alliance San Diego, says such close cooperation can blur the line between local police and immigration authorities.
"It runs the risk of creating a gap between local law enforcement and local communities, and particularly immigrant communities," Ramirez says. "When that trust is eroded, when local communities believe there is close cooperation between local law enforcement and immigration authorities, they may be hesitant to contact local police."
Both Loy and Kade Crockford, a researcher with the Massachusetts ACLU, whose work has focused on LPR technology in agencies across the country, say they don't have a problem with using LPR in real-time to catch crooks. They don't even object to holding the data for a short period of time. But they consider the retention periods in the SANDAG system excessive. Currently, the shared database holds scans for between one to two years, which is typical of agencies nationwide. The San Diego County Sheriff holds on to its information indefinitely, in a duplicate, parallel system independent of SANDAG.
In Massachusetts, Crockford's group is pushing for a 10-day retention limit—enough time, they argue, to investigate crimes while also avoiding a long-term privacy threat.
"LPR is a really interesting technology," Crockford says. With some basic protections and limits on retention, many of the privacy concerns are alleviated. "It's really not hard to strike a balance between privacy and public safety."
Police say they understand the apprehension some people feel about LPR and stress that there are controls in place to protect data. Any investigator accessing the system has their activity logged.
"Short of a criminal investigation, no one is accessing this data," says Giannantonio with the Sheriff's Department, "so there really is no need to dispose of it."
Besides, police say, the system works. Sgt. Scott Walters of the Escondido Police Department says the data's been critical in solving hit-and-run cases, homicides, burglaries—you name it.
I've lost count of how many crimes we've solved because we've been able to go back and pinpoint locations," he says.
While it wasn't reported at the time, LPR data figured into one of the biggest criminal cases in recent county history. When police began to investigate John Gardner's role in the disappearance of Amber Dubois, LPR scans collected more than a year earlier in Escondido helped place him in that city around the time of her disappearance. If privacy advocates had their way, police point out, the data in that case would have been deleted long before it proved useful. Gardner was later convicted of the rape and murder of both Dubois and Poway teenager Chelsea King.
The question of whether this data gathering is legal is a matter of some disagreement. Police argue that a person traveling in public doesn't have an expectation of privacy. Furthermore, they say, no cop needs a warrant to write down your plate number. In that sense, LPR only does what a human cop can already do.
But privacy advocates say the sheer quantity of data being collected might change that basic principle. LPR isn't analogous to a human cop, because they're just too powerful. To match the performance of an LPR device, a police officer would have to read a license plate, take a GPS coordinate and note the date and time once every seven seconds, for the entirety of their 10-hour shift. That could get exhausting.
Crockford and others are hopeful that the courts might place some restrictions on LPR in the future, pointing to a concurring opinion from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a recent GPS tracking case. But no court has ruled on the questions directly. Loy says he doesn't want to take away a powerful tool; he just wants to make sure that there are controls in place.
"I don't blame law enforcement for wanting to get more information," Loy says. "If I was in their position, I'd want all the information I could get. But we have a Constitution, and we have checks and balances precisely because no branch of government should be trusted completely." Envisioning a future where everyone's travels are constantly monitored? "That is extremely frightening" Loy says. "I don't think that's the world we want to live in."
After San Diego Mayor Bob Filner trumpeted the removal of redlight cameras in the city—which he's called, among other things, an invasion of privacy—we reached out to him for comment on LPR. His office didn't return calls or emails. But a written statement he provided for a congressional hearing in 2001 might shed light on his feelings. He was talking about redlight cameras, but maybe he'd say something similar about LPR.
"Will we be faced with the government acting as "Big Brother" continuously spying on law-abiding citizens?" Filner wrote. "I realize this might seem far-fetched to some, but we must remain vigilant against these types of abuse. Technology changes faster than most of us can keep up with at this point. We must continue to try to use its benefits to better our society, but it must not be at the expense of fairness or freedom."
Correction: The original version of this story reported that Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's opinion in the GPS tracking case was a dissenting opinion.
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Chuck Brown, the guitarist and singer most associated with the Washington, D.C.-based genre go-go, died Wednesday after a long hospitalization. Brown, a monumental figure in the D.C. music scene for more than 30 years, died in Baltimore from sepsis after multiple organ failure, says his manager, Tom Goldfogle. Brown was 75 years old. Listen at the audio link for the remembrance that aired on Morning Edition.
It took a lot of work getting an interview with Chuck Brown. There were people to go through, and people who had people. It took a lot to get to the guy, and when we finally hooked up, we spent an inordinate amount of time talking about shoes.
Chuck Brown got his start in music shining shoes on the streets of Richmond, Va., in the early 1940s, and then around the corner from the Howard Theater in Washington D.C. Chuck was possibly the only person to have bootblacked for both Louis Jordan, the early king of rhythm and blues, and Hank Williams, the country star who was the first person to tip Chuck a whole dollar. He asked questions, listened to their music and everything else on the radio. And by the time he had made his way in the world, Brown could say he had done one amazing thing that those two giants never had: invented a whole new music by himself.
I needed to talk to Chuck for a book I was writing about James Brown. There were few folks alive who could speak more knowingly about funk, as a music and a state of mind, than Chuck. And, like James, he'd had a huge influence on George Clinton and hip-hop, from his gold tooth down to his popping bass. Both Browns grew up poor, Southern, both had gone to prison as kids, heck — both shined shoes.
By the time I spoke with him, Chuck had long become famous around the world as the Godfather of Go-Go, the Washington D.C.-based sound that was the square root of funk. In 1965 the African-American guitarist was playing in Los Latinos, a multi-racial Top 40 band pumping Latin rhythms into the soul they were playing. Soon on his own Chuck was jamming James Brown grooves at casual District backyard parties, incorporating the Latinos' sound into what was becoming his own. He called himself The Soul Searcher, and fancied himself a guitar star.
But it was when he got his own band together, called them the Soul Searchers and used his cigarillo-sooty rasp as the band's lead instrument, that go-go took off. Maybe urban places were supposed to be the death of folk styles, but with go-go, Brown created a sound that was purely of the place he called home. Go-go was the boogaloo beat transforming the barbecues of Chocolate City.
"I wanted something different!" he barked at me with a smile. "I wanted my own sound, you know what I'm saying? And I said, 'I'ma create my own sound.'"
It was music with a fat bass that hovered over the night like a rhetorical question, and that clarified itself at 4 am. By then D.C. and Maryland clubs were supposed to be shut down, but Brown was just establishing his presence. And it was regal: big-pimpin' velours, a devilish grin and a chapeau broad enough to to block the sunrise. That showmanship propelled the music, as did the conga/bass drum interplay threading through and between the songs.
Go-go birthed numerous D.C. bands, and was a crucial influence on George Clinton's P-Funk; Chuck's 1979 hit "Bustin' Loose" got him on Soul Train. For a moment go-go was marketed as a national craze; in the 'early '80s Brown showed punk rockers they, too, had rumps. Everyone from Eric B. and Rakim to Duran Duran sampled his music, but while it eventually fell off the charts go-go never fell out of favor in D.C. Chuck was doing shows every week or two, and had been around so long that the regional icon was treated like a national treasure.
Another D.C. musician of note, Duke Ellington, once said, "Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be famous too young." A year before he died, around the time the National Symphony Orchestra played a show of Sousa, Ellington and Chuck Brown music on the West Lawn of the capitol, Brown told me, "I think if I was a young man and was as famous as I am now — oh, man I might be all messed up. I just thank God that it happened in its time, and that the older I get the more famous I get." Throw your hands up!
The Godfather of Go-Go has died. Chuck Brown helped create the style of music that became the signature sound of the nation's capital.
NPR's Mandalit del Barco has this remembrance.
MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: With his gravelly voice, his signature fedora, shades and a gold tooth, Chuck Brown always knew how to rock a crowd.
CHUCK BROWN: I want y'all to make some noise. Giddyup!
DEL BARCO: Brown's call-and-response with the audience, a slow conga beat: go-go, a blend of funk, soul and Latin party music he helped create in the early 1970s.
BROWN: It's a groove. It's a feeling that goes on and on and on. That's why they call it go-go.
DEL BARCO: Brown told NPR in 2007 that the musical hooks he and his band The Soul Searchers developed were best experienced live.
BROWN: You got the percussion and a little funky music there, and some funky lyrics that you might shout at the audience, and they holler back at you. I mean, that's the full ingredients of it.
BROWN: (Singing) When you walk in the club, you want to show some love. What? Row, row, row, row, row.
DEL BARCO: Brown was born in 1936, into a family of North Carolina sharecroppers. When he was eight, they moved to Washington, D.C. As a teen, Brown ended up serving eight years behind bars for shooting a man in what he said was self-defense. In prison, he says he swapped five cartons of cigarettes for another inmate's guitar. And when he was released, he began singing at local nightclubs and recording.
BROWN: I feel like bustin' loose. Give me the bridge, y'all. Give me the bridge now, now.
DEL BARCO: Brown's song "Bustin' Loose" hit number one on Billboard's R&B charts in 1979. It was his biggest hit, and years later, rapper Nelly sampled it for his song "Hot in Herre."
Natalie Hopkinson, who has a new book about go-go, says Chuck Brown's music became the soundtrack for Washington, D.C.'s black community.
NATALIE HOPKINSON: He was royalty in the city. This is just kind of inconceivable that he's gone, because he was such an embodiment of the music that just went and went and went.
DEL BARCO: And so did Chuck Brown, for more than four decades.
BROWN: I still have some fire here, you know, I'm still getting hired. So ain't no point in being retired. I just want to go on and on, until it's over.
DEL BARCO: Chuck Brown died yesterday.
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