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Most event marketers or exhibitors understand the importance of engaging with their attendees. But what if you took the plural "attendees" and started using only the singular form "attendee"? Imagine the impact your event would have if you were able to put your focus squarely on each individual person. One thing is certain: you would have a captivated, loyal audience and the opportunity for a serious competitive edge.
With the help of touchscreen and intuitive interface technology, like the solutions from MultiTaction®, it is getting much easier to give your attendees the individualized attention they deserve.
MultiTaction builds touch display solutions that are both interactive and intuitive. The intelligent surfaces use infrared cameras, which "see" what is touching the screen. Their solutions support an endless number of connected display screens, so it's easy to scale big or small.
The technology also uses optical markers, which seamlessly recognize objects placed on an interactive display table. These multi-source markers may be fingers, hands, infrared pens or 2-D codes. Once a 2-D code is recognized, relevant content – a video or additional product information, for example – is served up to the user so they can interact with it via the touchscreen. The technology even recognizes a nearly limitless number of marker inputs, so multiple attendees can interact with the display simultaneously.
Another cool feature of this tech is that the markers can be placed on just about anything, so it is easy to put your brand in the attendee's hands – literally. For instance, Glenfiddich, one of the world's most awarded single-malt Scotch whiskies, coded scotch glasses for an event. When attendees placed their drinks down on the interactive "bar," it would detect the type of whiskey and magically offer up pairing, tasting and composition information.
GES had the opportunity to use the MultiTaction display at IAEE's Expo! Expo! 2016. Attendees were enthralled with this technology! It drew in attendees and allowed them to interact in a fun and unique way with videos, infographics and case studies.
The goal with any activation is to grab the attendee's attention, make them feel something that correlates to your brand message and leave them with a lasting impression. MultiTaction displays are just one fun trend we are seeing more and more at events and in exhibits.
Take a look inside our 2017 Trend Tracker guide to learn about additional trends intended to attract, engage and excite your attendee.

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This is one of my flash animations re-designed to HTML5 with help of CreateJS. Hand-drawn animated letters "coming soon" with customizable logo integrated on tv-screen, jQuery countdown timer, 2 skins (light and dark). Cartoon retro-styled mechanism animation centered in browser window. Your logo is clickable with custom URL.
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Hedeland Recreational Resort
Hedeland is a large natural resort of 15 m2 created in former gravel pits. The area runs through three counties (Høje-Taastrup, Greve and Roskilde) with a landscape varying from lakes and canals to plains, woodland and hills.
The bike tracks running through the area will take you pass the attractions:
- The Hedeland amphiteatre, the largest permanent open air theatre in Denmark
- The Hedeland golf course
- Angling ponds
- Ride tracks
- Vineyards
- Ski slope with snow canon
- The Hedeland veteran railway of 5 km
- The Hedeland mini railway
The trains run in the summer season. Please check the links for time schedule.


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Guests: David Vaccaro, Jonathan Beland. Topics: The Futron 2012 Space Competitive Index (SCI). Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. We welcomed back David Vaccaro and Jonathan Beland to discuss the Futron 2012 Space Competitive Index (SCI). You can freely download the SCI Executive Summary at www.futron.com/SCI_2012.xml. The SCI provides annual statistical benchmarks, analysis, and business intelligence for both commercial and national space activities for fifteen countries, examining markers in the Government, Human Capital and sectors. Five new countries were added for the 2011 data which is used for the 2012 report. The list of countries analyzed includes the U.S, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe (all of Europe, not the individual European countries), India, Israel, Japan, Russia, S. Korea, Argentina, Australia, Iran, South Africa and the Ukraine. The five new countries added include Australia, Argentina, Iran, S. Africa, and the Ukraine. While this program was conducted using two segments, this summary is written without regard to the segments as our discussion points crossed segments throughout the program. As we started out, our guests provided us with a brief history regarding the SCI and clearly stated its purpose. Note that it is self-financed by Futron and remains completely independent of any & all pressures. Also, note that again, the U.S. remains the only country of those examined that consistently declines year by year but because our government spending is so huge and our economy, despite our problems is so huge, the U.S. remains in first place as the space industry leader of all those countries studied. Our guests told us about the benchmarks and how the SCI was constructed. They responded to lots of listener questions, including questions about why the report is not used by candidates in political campaigns, its potential influence among those in Congress and other policy makers, and the same in other countries. We talked about the impact of space industry workforce layoffs, the termination of Constellation and the shuttle showing up in the analysis and how such events might impact the U.S. score. As you will hear, our team expects the 2012 data in the 2013 report to reflect these changes in our space program. A listener asked if the SCI tracked the growth of space advocacy in the U.S., wondering why it is growing but not that much in policy impact. Other listeners asked about the growth of cubesats, especially in the U.S. and how that was reported. Also, if ITAR was a limiting factor for the U.S. Yet another asked our guests if the SCI viewed SpaceX as commercial or government subsidized in the context of the report and its analysis. When asked about a future country watch list, we talked about Viet Nam, S. Korea, South America and Mexico. In addition to lots of questions about the U.S., we talked about space in many of the other countries, why they kept investing while the U.S. seemed to be retreating. Another issue talked about was global positive view of space, embracing more and more countries, views not always held here at home. Please post your comments/questions on The Space Show blog. Both our guests gave out their Futron email addresses as the program was ending.


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There are around 4.16 million IT professionals working in the United States today, and that number is expected to grow by 22 percent through 2020, according to research company CompTIA. Most of those new jobs will be geared toward software development, while computer engineering jobs will remain in relatively short supply.
In a newly released report titled "CompTIA's IT Industry Outlook 2013," the research company provides a detailed breakdown of the IT job market and goes one step beyond other job reports: CompTIA takes the time to separate IT occupations -- that is, jobs that require tech skills -- from jobs in the IT industry, which can range from technical to menial.
The U.S. IT industry -- software developers, computer manufacturers, and telecom companies -- comprises around 168,145 employers (that is, companies with payrolls), who employ a total of around 4.6 million workers, both technical and nontechnical. Additionally, there are around 421,174 "self‐employed, non-employer" entities, which include consultants, contractors, and other types of entities that don't have a payroll. In all, that means the U.S. IT industry represents around 5 million jobs.
Meanwhile, the report estimates that there are around 4.16 million core IT jobs -- software developers, network admins, and DBAs -- spread out among all industries in the United States.
To be clear, only some of those 4.16 million core IT occupations are subsets of the aforementioned 5 million IT industry jobs; for example, a systems analyst at IBM or a Web developer at Salesforce.com would represent a core IT job in the IT industry. A systems analyst for Chase or a Web developer for Geico would represent a core IT job that's not part of the IT industry. An office administrator at Microsoft or a facilities manager at Apple would be non-IT jobs within the IT industry.
The report provides a snapshot of how core IT positions break down today and an idea of how the IT job landscape will look come 2020. Overall, CompTIA predicts that the total number of core IT jobs in the United States will increase by 22 percent by 2020.
Following is the breakdown of jobs, including position, number of jobs as of May 2011, and projected change in employment through 2020. Also included is average annual salary information:
- The IT occupation with the highest project growth through 2020 is systems software developer. The total number of jobs will grow by 32 percent, from 387,050 to 510,906. Systems software developers currently earn around $100,420 per year.
- DBAs jobs will increase by 31 percent through 2020, jumping from 108,500 to 142,135. Average annual salary for DBAs is $77,350.
- Application software developer positions will swell by 28 percent, from 539,880 to 691,046. They earn an average salary of $92,080.
- Network and systems admin jobs totaled around 341,800 in May 2011. The number will jump to 437,504 by 2020, a 28 percent change. Currently, these IT pros earn an average annual salary of $74,720.
- Computer systems analyst jobs now number 487,740 and will increase by 22 percent to 595,043 in 2020; $82,320 is the average annual salary for this position.
- Jobs that fall under the broad category of security analyst, Web developers, and network architects now number 272,670. That figure is expected to rise to 332,657 come 2020, another 22 percent shift. Annual salary is around $81,670.
- There were around 25,160 computer and information research scientist jobs in the United States in mid-May 2011. By 2020, CompTIA estimates the figure will hit 29,940, 19 percent more. This group makes on average $103,160 per annum.
- There are around 632,490 computer support specialists now. By 2020, the number will increase by 18 percent for a total of 746,338. Average annual pay is $51,820.
- Computer and information systems managers number around 300,830 today; by 2020, that number will be reach 354,979 for growth of 18 percent. They earn an average of $125,660 per year.
- There are around 320,100 computer programmer jobs in the United States right now, a figure that will jump by 12 percent to 358,512 by 2020. Programmers take home a yearly salary of around $76,010.
- Hardware engineers now number 71,990, and by 2020, there will be around 9 percent more for a total 78,469. Annual salary is $101,360.
- Finally, there are 177,630 miscellaneous computer occupations in the United States. By 2020, the number will rise by 6 percent to 188,288. The average annual salary for this vague category is $80,500.
Another dataset of interest shows the breakdown of workers in peripheral IT positions, along with their average pay:


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Living close to wind farms may lead to severe hearing damage or even deafness, according to new research which warns of the possible danger posed by low frequency noise.
The physical composition of inner ear was "drastically" altered following exposure to low frequency noise, like that emitted by wind turbines, a study has found.
The research will delight critics of wind farms, who have long complained of their detrimental effects on the health of those who live nearby.
Published today by the Royal Society in their new journal Open Science, the research was carried out by a team of scientists from the University of Munich.
It relies on a study of 21 healthy men and women aged between 18 and 28 years. After being exposed to low frequency sound, scientists detected changes in the type of sound being emitted from the inner ear of 17 out of the 21 participants.
The changes were detected in a part of the ear called the cochlear, a spiral shaped cavity which essential for hearing and balance.
"We explored a very curious phenomenon of the human ear: the faint sounds which a healthy human ear constantly emits," said Dr Marcus Drexl, one of the authors of the report.
"These are like a very faint constant whistling that comes out of your ear as a by-product of the hearing process. We used these as an indication of how processes in the inner ear change."
Dr Drexl and his team measured these naturally emitted sounds before and after exposure to 90 seconds of low frequency sound.
"Usually the sound emitted from the ear stays at the same frequency," he said. "But the interesting thing was that after exposure, these sounds changed very drastically.
"They started to oscillate slowly over a couple of minutes. This can be interpreted as a change of the mechanisms in the inner ear, produced by the low frequency sounds.
"This could be a first indication that damage might be done to the inner ear.
"We don't know what happens if you are exposed for longer periods of time, [for example] if you live next to a wind turbine and listen to these sounds for months of years."
Wind turbines emit a spectrum of frequencies of noise, which include the low frequency that was used in the research, Dr Drexl explained.
He said the study "might help to explain some of the symptoms that people who live near wind turbines report, such as sleep disturbance, hearing problems and high blood pressure".
Dr Drexl explained how the low frequency noise is not perceived as being "intense or disturbing" simply because most of the time humans cannot hear it.
"The lower the frequency the you less you can hear it, and if it is very low you can't hear it at all.
"People think if you can't hear it then it is not a problem. But it is entering your inner ear even though it is not entering your consciousness."
Earlier this week it was reported that bats were being lured to their deaths at wind farmsbecause they think turbines are trees in which they can find shelter, food and sex.


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Fields, David (Forthcoming), "Classical Dichotomy," Edward Elgar Encyclopedia on Central Banking, edited by L.P. Rochon et. al, Edward Elgar
In this sense, money is "the unpremeditated resultant, of particular, individual efforts of the members of society, who have little by little worked their way to a determination of the different degrees of saleableness in commodities" (Menger, 1892, p. 242). Hence, money is considered simply as a social technology for the adjudication and determination of "terms of trade", which are inherently specific to individual dyadic economic exchanges (Dodd, 1994, p. 6). It is thus a social "vehicle" that has no efficacy other than to overcome transaction costs concerning the inconveniences of barter, which result from the absence of a double coincidence of wants (Jevons, 1875, p. 3).
The classical dichotomy is, essentially, a derivation of the quantity theory of money, which is captured by the formula MV = PY, where M stands for the money stock, V is the velocity of money circulation, P is the price level, and Y is the level of income. The monetary value of output (PY) is thus equal to overall aggregate monetary expenditure. Exogenous changes in the money supply (M) ultimately condition the price level for a given level of economic activity. If an economic system is at full employment, the only effect of increases in the money supply is a proportionate increase in the domestic price level, which gives rise to a depreciation of its currency's exchange rate. The direction of causality runs therefore from an exogenous money supply to the price level.
This is intrinsically connected to the so-called "natural rate of interest theory" of New Keynesian economics (see Woodford, 2003). A natural rate of interest is determined in the long run by the equilibrium of savings and investment. This is a full-employment position for a given economy. A market interest rate that is either above or below this natural rate is a disequilibrium situation, which is eventually equilibrated through a long-run process of market clearing.
Exogenous changes in the supply of money are what shift market rates of interest. This is the process by which discrepancies between market rates and the natural rate of interest are generated. A market rate of interest below the natural interest rate occurs when investment exceeds savings. Firms will demand more credit for investing. The result is an excess of investment over savings. If the economy is at the full-employment position, defined by the natural rate of interest, a cumulative process of inflation unfolds. The rise in the price of consumption goods leads to a decrease in consumption; involuntary savings rise until the excess of investment over savings is eventually eliminated. If market rates of interest are above the natural rate of interest, by contrast, savings exceed investment and a cumulative process of deflation ensues.
From a heterodox perspective, however, the natural rate of interest is a conventionally-determined exogenous distributive variable. The implication is that it is strictly a monetary phenomenon. For a given level of output, the price level is the result of distributive conflict between capitalists and workers. Hence, the net impact on the general price level depends on the effects the central-bank determined interest rate exerts on aggregate demand. If a restrictive monetary policy, via higher market interest rates, leads to a higher price-to-wage ratio, a lower inflation rate will result if the workers' bargaining power is weakened, ensuing nominal wage reductions.
Further, if conventional rates of interest are artificially set high and effective demand is not sufficient for businesses to meet profit expectations, and for governments to afford deficit spending, there is an actual possibility of an unemployment equilibrium. Deflation that is caused by higher real interest rates does not produce a wealth effect that offsets increased costs of production through the expansion of consumption. This puts pressure "on those entrepreneurs [and consumers] who are heavily indebted […] with severely adverse effects on investment" (Keynes, 1936, pp. 262–4). If the interest rate is set low and is followed suit with appropriate fiscal policy via aggregate demand management, any so-called burden of private and public debt accumulation is sustainable, and, as a result, provides impetus for output and employment expansion (Domar, 1944).
In conclusion, the classical dichotomy implies that real variables and monetary variables are independent of each other. From a heterodox perspective, by contrast, both kinds of variables are explained by the relationship established between the central bank, bank lending, and entrepreneurs' "animal spirits" every time effective demand is deemed profitable, reversing thereby the causality of the quantity-theory-of-money formula.
Dodd, N. (1994), The Sociology of Money, New York: Continuum.
Domar, E. (1944), "The 'burden of the debt' and the national income", American Economic Review, 34 (4), pp. 798–827.
Jevons, W.S. (1875), Money and the Mechanism of Exchange, London: Appleton.
Keynes, J.M. (1936), The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, London: Macmillan.
Menger, K. (1892), "On the origins of money", Economic Journal, 2 (6), pp. 239–55.
Patinkin, D. (1965), Money, Interest and Prices, New York: Harper & Row, second edition.
Schumpeter, J.A. (1994), A History of Economic Analysis, London and New York: Routledge.
Woodford, M. (2003), Interest and Prices, Princeton: Princeton University Press.


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Murray Langston's public profile has lowered considerably since his heyday as The Unknown Comic, but for much of the '70s and '80s, he was one of entertainment's unlikeliest success stories, an unassuming guy who found fame and fortune by putting a paper bag over his head and telling bad jokes. A veteran of numerous variety shows (The Sonny And Cher Show, The Wolfman Jack Show, The Alan Hammel Show, and many others), Langston got his big break when he appeared on The Gong Show as The Unknown Comic, a brown-paper-bag-sporting shtick-slinger who specialized in razzing show host Chuck Barris. The character took off, and Langston soon parlayed his fame as The Unknown Comic into television appearances, a feature film (1984's Night Patrol), and a wildly successful Vegas act. Before entering semi-retirement in the early '90s, Langston wrote and starred in the 1988 comedy-drama Up Your Alley and wrote, directed, and starred in 1990's Wishful Thinking. The Onion A.V. Club recently spoke with the affable single father about his Gong Show fame, famous friends, and the unique challenges of making a living with a paper bag on your head.
The Onion: How did you get started in comedy?
Murray Langston: I don't remember. It's so long ago, it's just a faded memory. Actually, I guess I started out—I go back a ways—to [Rowan & Martin's] Laugh-In. I was working as a computer operator. Laugh-In was a big, popular show, and Tiny Tim had made it big, so I just called up the show. I was very naïve and said, "How do I get in there? How can I get on that show?" They said, "Do something unusual, and call us." So I called back a couple days later and said I could do an impression of a fork. And so they had me on the show four times, as beautiful downtown Burbank's greatest impressionist.
O: What impressions did you do?
ML: That's how easy it was. I did a fork, a tube of toothpaste. What else did I do? A grandfather clock, and one other one. Rowan and Martin did a bunch of jokes on me, stuff like that. Then it was the typical Hollywood story: After that, I didn't work for about three years.
O: What did you do during that time?
ML: I continued to do computer work. I was actually a computer operator at Universal Studios, which was sort of… I'd hang out around the studios and get to see John Wayne, Elvis Presley, and all these guys shoot movies and stuff like that. Then, after a few years, I started hanging out at a club owned by Redd Foxx and doing sketches. I was hanging out with guys like Cheech & Chong before they even made it. They were all trying to figure out what the business was all about. I formed a comedy team with a guy named Freeman King, and at Redd Foxx's club, me and Freeman were seen by some producers, and they asked us to be on Sonny and Cher's summer show. So, for the next four and half years, I was on The Sonny And Cher Show.
O: What was that like?
ML: It was total excitement. I was working with a different star every week, whether it was Jerry Lewis or whoever the stars were back in those days—all the same stars, you know? The Jackson 5, all those people. You got to work with everybody each week. We'd always have either a musical star or an acting star on the show.
O: Was it at all strange, being a comedy professional and having to work with entertainers who weren't comedians by trade?
ML: Yeah, well, I wasn't really a professional at that point, either. I was still getting off the ground. I was very naïve about the business. It's amazing how I was trying to hang out at Redd Foxx's club, and within months I was on a major television show.
O: Were you at all surprised that Sonny Bono found so much success, even after the show was over?
ML: No, he was an ambitious guy. He just wasn't the nicest guy. To take Cher and make her the success she was and be part of it with his limited singing ability, the man had some knowledge, and he knew what he was doing. He went a long way with his talent. But he just wasn't a sociably nice guy. None of us liked him on the show.
O: As somebody who worked on a bunch of variety shows, does it seem weird that the form doesn't really exist today?
ML: Yeah, it does. I keep thinking it's… everything's recycled, and it's gonna happen again, but in a very different version.
O: Why do you think they stopped getting made?
ML: There were so many at the time, whether it was Tony Orlando's show, or Carol Burnett's, or Sonny and Cher's. Everybody had shows back then. Anybody who made it, all of a sudden had a variety show. It's like everything. People don't have an appetite for that right now, but all it takes is one producer or one network to say, "I'm gonna try one." I think the last one that was tried was years ago with Dolly Parton, and it didn't do well, so nobody wants to touch it for a few years.
O: Of all the variety shows and programs you appeared on, which was your favorite?
ML: I've got to say that my favorite time was the Sonny And Cher years, because it was all sort of new and it was the biggest show at the time. That definitely was a highlight. I got on the show, and all of a sudden my first sketch is doing a singing and dancing routine with Art Carney. I went, "Wow." I went from nothing to that, then doing things with Jerry Lewis, and whoever else was on top of the world. It was a very, very exciting period of my life.
O: Were you ever intimidated by anyone you worked with?
ML: The only comic I've ever felt intimidated around, and it was because I idolized him, was probably Jerry Lewis. You get to know all the comics as you go up, and he's the only comic that I… Whether it's the old-timers like Don Rickles or Robin Williams, or guys that I grew up in the business with, I never felt intimidated by anybody. But Lewis was the only one where I felt it was hard to be funny around him. You felt like you were taking away from his aura. But he was one of those guys that I idolized coming up in the world. I saw all of his movies.
O: I realize you've probably been asked this question many times, but how did you come up with the character of The Unknown Comic?
ML: This is the first time I'm being asked this. I had a really bad complexion, and it was cheaper than Clearasil. Actually, when The Sonny And Cher Show ended, I had a few dollars, so I bought a nightclub restaurant in North Hollywood, and it was called Showbiz. I specialized in ribs and later specialized in bankruptcy. I had the club for a few years, but it just drained me. Fascinating place, though, because people like David Letterman, the first place he ever worked in L.A. was my club. Debra Winger was one of my waitresses. A lot of guys started at my club.
O: Were people grateful to you for giving them opportunities?
ML: I think everyone makes their own opportunities. I happened to be there. I don't think I was responsible for Letterman's career in any way. My place was just a place for him to work out. My place was the first place Gallagher worked out.
O: Was he smashing melons at that point?
ML: Yeah. Gallagher came from Florida with Jim Stafford. Remember Jim Stafford? "My Girl Bill" and "Spiders And Snakes"? He was a hit back then. He had his own summer show and a bunch of hit records. Gallagher was one of his best friends, and was writing his act. He walked into my club one day, and I'm going, "Jim Stafford!" Like I said, he was a big hit at this time. He says, "I'll get up and do a couple songs if you put my buddy on." I said, "Sure, who's your buddy?" The guy's name was Gallagher. He did the watermelon thing the first time he was there and floored the place. But he had done it before. That wasn't the first place he did it; him and Stafford, apparently, worked at a little place in Florida, where they were originally from. Stafford is making about $20 million a year now in Branson, Missouri. He's very, very successful. Anyway, so those couple years I had the club, I lost everything, and I was busted, broke. I had no money, and The Gong Show has been on the air maybe six months. And if you were in the union, which I was, and you appeared on The Gong Show, you got a few hundred dollars. I heard that everybody was going on who needed money—actors were making up these little bits—so I said, "Well, I could use the money." So I said, "Well, if I put a bag on my head and tell a couple jokes, nobody will know it's me." I didn't want anybody to know it was me, because I'd just been on The Sonny And Cher Show. So I was embarrassed having to do…
O: Because you were above it?
ML: In a sense, yeah. So I felt, if I just put a bag on and call myself The Unknown Comic, do a couple jokes, I'll get my couple hundred dollars. And that's all I meant to do. But what I did is, I came out and insulted Chuck Barris. I did a couple jokes and then said, "Hey, Chuck, do you and your wife ever make love in the shower?" And he said, "No." I said, "Well, you should, she loves it." The audience loved it. So every time I'd come back… He kept asking, "You've got to come back and do something else. Insult me again." So every time I'd come back, I'd have to insult him at the end of it. But I was used to being an actor, a comedy actor, and to do stand-up was new to me. I never did stand-up before. So, from that point on, I had to try to figure out… I did about six or eight months when I was doing The Unknown Comic, did maybe 40 or 50 television shows like that. And all of a sudden, I knew I had something I could parlay. So I contacted Vegas, and ended up going to the Sahara and started making some money, put a whole act together. I had a band called The Brown Baggers who had bags over their heads, had dancers called the Baggettes. I was getting paid, like, five grand a week, I think, but my show was costing me about six grand a week. But I had to do something, because I had no real act, and that's what I did. It took me about a year before I developed an act, and I could slowly let everybody go, and then I started making money. But in the beginning, that's what people wanted to see, and the whole show was this bag character.
O: Did you want to distance yourself at all from the freak-show nature of The Gong Show?
ML: No, not at all. On the contrary, I was trying to use it to the best of my ability. After all, the character I created was on that show.
O: You weren't bothered by the criticism The Gong Show received?
ML: No. It's like any show. People slap success—critics try to slap success around—but how can you knock success?
O: Did you ever feel like The Gong Show went too far?
ML: No. Not when you look at shows like Jackass today. I thought it was pushing the envelope because that's what made it a success, whether it's Jaye P. Morgan showing her boobs or those girls sucking on popsicles. It was definitely pushing the envelope, but that's the reason people watched it. They wanted to see how far it was going to go.
O: During the heyday of The Gong Show, did you ever get sick of being The Unknown Comic?
ML: No, I always found it interesting. It was interesting to be in situations where people would be talking about me and they wouldn't know that I was him. That was fascinating. Then, sometimes, it would backfire. One time I was in a bar, talking to some girls and sort of flirting. I finally asked them what they did for a living, and they asked me the same, so I sort of sneaked it in. "Have you ever heard of The Unknown Comic?" And one girl goes, "Oh, I hate him." I just let it slide. I had one woman tell me that she met The Unknown Comic in Chicago and had sex with him, so there was a guy, and it wasn't me.
O: Were you concerned about the fact that any Tom, Dick, and Harry could claim to be The Unknown Comic?
ML: Actually, they did. It became quite popular for a while. There was The Unknown Stripper, and they had a disc jockey that became The Unknown Disc Jockey on radio here. A lot of people were using it, but, no, I thought it was flattering if anybody did anything resembling it, as long as they didn't do jokes. I didn't have any say. If anybody came out and started doing jokes as The Unknown Comic, I could file a lawsuit, but anybody putting a bag over their head for any other reason was a compliment.
O: Were there a lot of Unknown Comic groupies?
ML: I had no complaints. Oh, yeah, I had my share of groupies, I'll tell you. Major, major girl-groupies who would do anything I want with a bag over their head or my head. I had my series of legendary experiences in Vegas with women.
O: So, being The Unknown Comic worked for you there.
ML: Yeah, very much so.
O: Did it seem weird to be famous for something that required anonymity?
ML: And I did The Unknown Poster, remember that? With a bag over my head and a bag over my dick. It was actually a huge poster at the time, sold hundreds of thousands, but I never saw a penny. Me and Debbie Boone got ripped off. That was during the poster craze, after Farrah Fawcett. I did it after the Burt Reynolds pose, and it was in that Playgirl magazine, so I did the naked thing, laying down with a bag over my head and a long, long wine bag over my dick. It was very well received. But anyway.
O: Did you find it limiting, being The Unknown Comic? Obviously, there are certain types of humor you can't really do with a paper bag over your head. You can't do a whole lot of political material, I would imagine.
ML: Well, yeah. When I do my show, I do an hour-long show, and only about 15 minutes is with the bag, so it never really became that limiting to me afterwards. I'm unlike a lot of comics in the business, though: I never had this drive to be really, really famous. I just enjoy working. I've done almost 800 television shows and movies. I've never had an agent or manager. I've always just done everything. I just coast along and do everything as it comes along. When things aren't happening, I just go and make them happen. I literally retired for almost eight years to raise my daughter.
O: Being a creative person, was it difficult being out of the public eye?
ML: No. Again, I just never had that drive to be really famous. What it was, too—and it really did affect me years ago, when I was just starting to make it as The Unknown Comic, and I got to personally know people like Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers, and all these guys who were making it really big—was that most of them seemed miserable to me. I kept saying, "Here's a guy who's making millions, and he's not happy." I said to myself, "This is not necessarily what I need in life. I need to just concentrate on the important things." For me, it's all worked. I would say I've been one of the most fortunate guys around. I'm happy 95 percent of the time, I have a great life, I have two wonderful kids, and I really, really enjoy my life every day. I'd watch these guys, and everything is a struggle. Who's stealing whose jokes, and blah blah this, and, "Why can't I get ahead?" Everybody was always worrying. There wasn't a whole lot of happiness in that arena. Not to say that there aren't people who are successful and enjoy it, but I didn't know a whole lot of them back then. Even Steve Martin, who I knew well and had it as big as anybody could be, didn't strike me as a very happy guy, ever, with all the success he had.
O: Was that part of the reason you retired?
ML: Well, the main reason was… I have this philosophy that change is growth. When you change things in your life, you can't help but grow, because you have to adapt to new things and acquire new knowledge. When I had a child—and I was 45 years old when I had my first child—it was like, wow. It was like a bomb exploded emotionally inside me, and it was a whole new set of things I had to learn about. I just thoroughly enjoyed it all. I enjoyed every diaper change, and every connection with having a child was new. Watching them feed their first bird, watching them do this, it's a whole new set of experiences. That's what I enjoyed a lot, and I would never change that. I wouldn't change those seven or eight years [of retirement] with my daughter for a TV series. It's just not something I would do. It's not that important, because a TV series is over and you're left with nothing, but a daughter, you've got that for the rest of your life.
O: Do you think you'll ever feel too old to put a paper bag over your head and tell jokes?
ML: No, I don't think so. If I start tripping and falling, possibly. It's amazing, because I'm 56, and people my age are always talking about getting up. I feel the same way I did when I was 22 years old. But I'm sort of a health nut and an exercise person. I feel like I'm in great shape. I don't feel any of the aches and pains all these guys talk about. I'm better now than when I was 22.
O: If your life were an E! True Hollywood Story, what would the high and the low of it be?
ML: I can't think of a whole lot of low periods. Um, there must be a couple, though. The occasional breakups with somebody are low periods, I guess. But, like I said, I always try to take a negative and turn it into a positive. That's what I did with Up Your Alley. Some girl I was living with for two years left me, and I was either going to start drinking or do something, so I made the movie. The movie turned out to be a nice little fun project. But the highs are my kids, no doubt about that. The highs in my show-business career would be The Sonny And Cher Show, becoming friends with Jerry Lewis, who is my idol, and partying all night with Elvis Presley. I partied all night with him.
O: What was that like?
ML: It was a blast, but I wish I would have gone to the show, because he invited me to his show. Me and my buddy Freeman went there, and Tom Miner was there, too. Bobbie Gentry was a friend of mine, and I went backstage to visit her, because she was also married to Jim Stafford. See, all this stuff comes around. I'd made friends with her during those years, and me and Freeman went backstage to see her, and she had Elvis back there. We go, "Holy jeez." She says, "I want you to meet a friend of mine." Anyway, we start talking to him, and he says, "Come on, we'll go to my place, have a party." And this was in Vegas, so we all go to his suite in the Hilton. And he's doing karate, he's using me, and I'd always make him laugh. And every time I'd make him laugh, my brain would go, "You just made Elvis Presley laugh." It was the freakiest thing. We were there for hours, and we sat down and he started singing, on the floor, "Are You Lonesome Tonight." He's sitting right next to me, and he's singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight." It's just like being in a totally different world. You can't even believe that you're sitting next to Elvis while he's singing. There were about eight or nine of us there. Then, at about five in the morning, he started doing Bible songs, so that's when we got going. And he says, "Come on, you guys, you've got to come to my show tomorrow." And the thing is, we would have, but me and my buddy were in Vegas visiting, and we lost all our money, so we never went. We already had plane flights back. I wish we had, because it was about two years before he died. But it was so cool. It was a great time. I've also been threatened by Frank Sinatra. He called me on the phone, threatened to break my legs.
O: What was the cause of that?
ML: That was, ah, Make Me Laugh. I did Make Me Laugh, and I was doing a bunch of jokes. It wasn't as The Unknown Comic; it was as me, because I did it both as me and as The Unknown Comic. And I did a joke where I was reading things out of a newspaper, because you're trying to make somebody laugh. I never did Sinatra jokes in my act, but I did one joke where I said, "Sinatra's gonna open up a halfway house for girls who don't go all the way." It wasn't a hard joke. I totally forgot about it. So I guess Sinatra saw a rerun six months later and he literally… I'm shaving, and he calls me on the phone. Of course, you don't think Sinatra's calling you. So I pick up the phone, and he goes, "Is this Murray Langston?" I go, "Yeah." He says, "This is Sinatra, you cocksucker," and he starts cursing at me. "You ever mention my name, I'm gonna break your fucking legs," and all this shit, you know. I don't believe it's Sinatra, I think it's a friend of mine. I'm going, "Fuck you, dickhead." He's going back and forth with me, and I'm laughing at him, and the more I laugh at him, the more he's getting pissed off. He's saying, "This is Frank Sinatra." The other thing is, I don't remember ever doing a joke on Sinatra. Finally, he screams at me, I don't know what he said. I said, "Yeah, if you're Sinatra, sing 'My Way,' asshole." That's what did it. He just yelled at me and hung up. So I got back to shaving, and a couple minutes later the phone rings again, and I pick it up. It's another voice that I recognize, saying, "Is this Murray Langston?" I say, "Yeah." He says, "This is Milton Berle. Do you recognize my voice?" And I recognized Milton Berle's voice. He says, "Look, Frank just called me. Apparently, you didn't think you were talking to him." I had to stop shaving, because I'd probably cut my throat at the time. Anyway, he tells me Sinatra's this and Sinatra's that, and he says, "I'm not blaming you. He's just a little crazy at his age." Anyway, it was funny, because he went through the agency and actually was trying… I found out through a lot of sources that he was really going to have somebody rough me up. I called up the producer of this show and I said, "You'll never guess what happened." And the producer says, "Yeah, Frank Sinatra called me." I said, "How'd you know?" "Well, where do you think he got your phone number?" I said, "You asshole." It was a big stink. What a jerk this guy was.
O: He was around 80 at the time, wasn't he? What was he going to do?
ML: I know, but that's not the worry. The worry is, he had people around him who'd be glad to break somebody's legs for him. I went, "There's another idiot, this guy can't take a joke." If he would have just called me and said, "Excuse me, you did a joke on me, and I'd really appreciate…" And I would have said, "Oh, not a problem, man. I respect you." But he was such a vile person on the phone. And then Kitty Kelley heard the story, the one who wrote the book on him. She heard the story, and she called me up and asked me about it, and asked if she could put it in a book. And I denied it to her, because I wanted to save it for my book. My book is a lot more interesting, if I ever get it off the ground. I've known everybody in the business. Robin Williams and I used to double-date, Debra Winger and I were an item back then. Actually, one time I dated three different girls who were in three different movies at one time. I partied all night with Lucille Ball, I used to date Lucie Arnaz. Got to party, spent Christmas with her. It's just a lot of interesting things that have happened in my life that were just fascinating, that I really enjoyed, that I can look back on. Again, being part of Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, all those guys and their early years when they were just starting out. It was fun. My life has intertwined with almost all these guys who are huge today. Jay Leno, Mavis [Nicholson, Leno's wife]. I used to date Mavis for years before Leno. So just the sexual part of my history is amazing, with a lot of the people I used to date back then. I had a great time.


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"CW - The Grass Roots of Amateur Radio"
CW is definitely my favorite mode. I have found that it cannot be beat for weak signal communications. No other mode can even come close. I have spent many hours over the years chasing after DX on both SSB and CW. Thousands of contacts have been logged on the HF and VHF bands.
When comparing the success rate of CW vs. SSB there is no question about it. The number of completed QSO's on CW is way ahead of SSB or any of the other modes. My QSO total and DX total on CW is ahead of any of the other modes by several thousand. The Morse code has allowed me to get through to stations I otherwise would not have been able to communicate with.
One very important point. The equipment needed to operate CW at QRP levels can be very inexpensive. A CW transmitter, receiver or transceiver can be built from a kit or from scratch for just a few dollars. Some very good performing radios are offered in kit form for as little as 10 dollars. This extremely low cost makes ham radio accessible to almost anyone and can help increase the number of amateur radio operators.
"CW and QRP - A Combination!"
The Morse code and CW have always been an important part of ham radio. The present licencing structure requires that you need to pass a Morse code examination to make use of the high frequency bands. I believe this is a good thing since CW is the most efficient and dependable mode in existence today. Having the ability to communicate with the most reliable mode makes for more reliable and highly skilled radio operators. During many natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, typhoons, and earthquakes, low power CW transceivers are all that are available at times in many third world countries.
Certain types of propagation require the use of CW and the Morse code. Other modes just won't do the job. Some of the more exotic and high-tech operating techniques such as EME, (Earth-Moon-Earth, or Moon-Bounce), Aurora and High Speed Meteor Scatter are just a few examples. The ability to use Morse code opens up a whole new world of different operating styles and techniques. Every amateur radio operator should take the time to learn the Morse code and use it! -VE6BPR-
*Note - Some amateurs may be exempt from taking the Morse code examinations to gain access to the high frequency bands due to a disability. These amateurs are not expected to have to learn the code. Check with your local government radio agency for more information.
"Remove the Grass Roots and what's left? - Wasteland!"
Here are a few of my favorite CW links.
CW Links
Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy
Australian Overland Telegraph Line
Bencher, Inc. If you know CW, you know of Bencher paddles
Canadian Railway Telegraph History Contains interesting "Morse in Movies"
FOC First Class CW Operators Club
FISTS - The International Morse Preservation Society
FISTS Northwest Club
Ham Radio Online - Morse Code in Music
JF0KOG/JN3VOG Key collector from Japan
Milestone Technologies Inc. Dealer of keys and paddles from around the world.
Morse 2000 Homepage Think Morse is dying? - Visit here
Morse Code and the Phonetic Alphabets For those totally new to CW
Morse Enthusiasts Group Scotland
Morse's Equipment Pictures and stories of Morse's gear
Morsum Magnificat A wealth of Morse info from Britain
PA3BWK's Ultimate CW Website Much info & many links
Radio Amateurs of Canada News Bulletins in Morse Midi Format
Scandinavian CW Activity Group Founded in '74 to promote CW
Society of Wireless Pioneers The folks who used CW on ships, at shore stns, etc.
Sparks Telegraph Key Review Many pictures of keys
Telegraph & Scientific Instrument On-Line Cyber-Museum Fantastic - by W1TP
Telegraph Lore by KF5N
The Telegraph Office Definitive site for history of telegraphy
Telegraph Wireless World by N6TT
VWOA Veteran Wireless Operators Association
Vibroplex Company Well known maker of keys, bugs, paddles
W1AW Code Practice Schedule
Morse/Vail telegraph key, 1844. This key was used to send the message "What Hath God Wrought" on the experimental line between Washington, DC and Baltimore, Md.
To use the High Frequency (HF) spectrum on the amateur radio bands you must be qualified to do so by holding the proper licence. Passing a Morse code examination is one of the requirements to operate on the HF bands. If you would like to become qualified to use these bands, the computer software below can be very useful in helping you learn the Morse code. Morse code training cassette tapes are also very popular. You can find these tapes from several ham radio organizations and ham radio supply shops. Study manuals for the theory part of the ham radio examinations are also available from these same sources.
Codemaster V
DMorse Program by G0MDO (freeware)
International Morse Code Program By Phil, KE3FL
The Mill By W4FOK - Includes American Morse and Morse Nostalgia
Morse Academy Freeware
Morse Code Deciphered Another CW Trainer
Morse Code Practice QSO's For use with software like SuperMorse, etc.
Morse Code Teaching Machine Neat Morse philosophy
MRX For Windows 95/NT - from Australia
Nu Morse Code Trainer Increase your speed
PED Contest Simulator Download it here
Pile Up! By G4ZFE - practice your CW contesting skills
RUFZ Great contest practice program with world-wide competition for top scores
Super Morse Download Super Morse here
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872), "Father of the Morse Telegraph"
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Dimensions2' x 2'
Thickness.013" - Cuts easily with scissors
Weight6 oz
Recession.56" from tile face
Usage49.91% reflectance, 31.62% transmittance
Special InstructionsNot recommended for installations
where ceiling temperatures exceed 120°F
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These thermoform tiles are made from UV Stabilized .013" thick vinyl plastic. They are designed to provide all the functionality of conventional drop ceiling tiles at a fraction of the weight. The feather-light construction makes them a breeze to install, easy to clean, stain resistant, water resistant, dust free, and eco friendly! Installation is fast and couldn't be any easier.
Designed to fit all standard 15/16" T-Bar Ceiling Systems. Will not fit in a 9/16" grid, please measure the visible width of your grid.
Not recommended for direct mount installation
Most of the thermoform ceiling tiles come in two sizes, 2'x2' and 2'x4', but if you have a 2x4 grid ceiling and would prefer the look of the 2x2 ceiling tiles, simply insert a 2' center T bar available online or at most local hardware stores...it's easy!
5 Year ProShield Warranty
The ceiling tile manufacturer guarantees that your ceiling tiles will be free from manufacturing defects for a period of five years from the date of purchase. Limitations apply. See full warranty information below.
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ProLite ceiling tiles bearing this mark are UL tested and approved drop-out ceiling panels that can be installed beneath fire sprinklers. When exposed to heat from a developing fire, drop-out ceiling panels soften, distort, and fall from the ceiling grid. Heat from the growing fire activates the sprinkler which, unimpeded by the panels, controls or extinguishes the fire.
The Southland Grid Tile is a great style if you desire to upgrade the look of your current ceiling while maintaining a laid-back feel. Being that it is Class A Fire rated, it is an excellent choice for most businesses and homes. We are also proud to say that it is made in the USA.
Things to Consider:
The Southland tile is not suitable for use as a direct mount tile since it is not flat on the back.
While only .013" thick, the embossed design gives it the rigidity and structure needed to support itself in the grid without sagging. To avoid the risk of sagging, we discourage placing any weight directly on the tile, with the exception of our Soniguard insulation; it has been tested and approved for this purpose as an alternative to traditional insulation. If you would like to keep your existing acoustical tile in the grid for insulation or sound barrier purposes, we recommend that you place it above the framework so that it is not putting any weight on the Southland.
If your grid is already white and in good condition, it should match the white Southland tile very well. If you are going with a colored option, we highly recommend that you consider the Grid Tape or Grid Strips since they are color coordinated with the ProLite collection. If you would prefer to avoid the extra expense, you can, of course, paint your grid as well.
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UL Listing/Certification
Certain ProLite ceiling tiles are approved drop-out ceiling panels that can be installed beneath fire sprinklers. When exposed to heat from a developing fire, drop-out ceiling panels soften, distort, and fall from the ceiling grid. Heat from the growing fire activates the sprinkler which, unimpeded by the panels, controls or extinguishes the fire. Click here for more information.
Materials used in the construction of the tile(s) are 100% waterproof.
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Tiles have been tested in accordance with ASTM 84e and scored a Class A rating for flame spread and smoke generation.
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Warranty Conditions
This warranty covers material defects in the ceiling tile when used in a standard ceiling application where temperatures do not exceed 120F. It does not cover labor, consequential or incidental damages. This warranty is not transferable and applies to the original purchaser only. Please note that painting the ceiling tile will void the warranty and may change some of its properties like its fire rating.
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We know that projects take a while, and sometimes plans change. That's why, we offer a great return policy on all non-custom products:
Have old tiles still in good condition? Reuse them to add heat and sound insulation as well as support regular insulation above your new tiles by pushing your existing tiles up out of place and turning them slightly to rest on top of the grid system. Watch our video
NOTE: this is likely not compliant with commercial building codes, so verify if this is an option.
Due to the Southland's thin construction, regular fiberglass insulation is too heavy be laid on top. If your space requires insulation above the tiles you have a few options:
Make sure your grid system is clean, using rubbing alcohol or 409 to remove dirt and oils.
For best results, make sure the temperature in the room is 60-80F and low humidity.
Grid Strips
Should be butted up to one another. Do not overlap! Always start at the same end with each consecutive strip. Always dry-fit first, before peeling off the backing, to see if any trimming is needed.
Take your first strip. The dot at the end should be directly over the intersection of 4 tiles. Once you have the strip lined up, peel the backing from the self adhesive. Run all the strips one direction first.
Finish by installing the strips that run perpendicular to the tiles. Each strip will need to be trimmed, so keep a pair of scissors or snips in your pocket and cut off the dotted end.
Grid Tape
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Place all of the full sized tiles first so you can:
The Southland ceiling tile is very easy to cut with regular household scissors. Put measurements on the back side of the tile with a pencil or grease pencil, mark a straight line, and cut! For tiles with a decorative design, you have 4 options for the perimeter of your room, choose the one that fits your taste!
Choose a tile design that has a large enough flat area for the light bezel to lay flush once installed. As with standard mineral fiber tiles, you must choose lights that have grid mounting brackets so that the weight of the light is supported by the grid system and not the tile. The Southland is not strong enough to support even newer, light-weight clip-in 'puck' style of LED light. Our heavier-duty Signature Series Ceiling Tiles have worked with certain styles of puck lighting.
Place your light fixture and tile in the grid system. Adjust the light to its final position and mark this on the backside of your tile. Use the template to mark the hole in the tile (usually the light bezel itself will be close if no template is available). Cut the opening with scissors or a razor blade.
Unshielded fixtures, especially those using halogen lighting, present a risk of fire or melting the tiles.
The Southland tile is designed to operate in temperatures up to 120F. Higher temperatures can happen around heat registers, above stoves and ovens, around high temperature lighting, and in environments that intentionally have higher temperatures, like heat spas and Hot Yoga/Bikram studios. Contact us if your space may be subjected to any of these conditions.
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Crypto exchange Coinbase is adding web browser Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT) to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro.
The exchange announced Thursday that customers would be able to buy, sell, trade or otherwise transact with the token on coinbase.com, as well as its Android and iOS apps. Coinbase first said it was supporting the token on its professional trader platform Friday, making BAT the second ERC-20 token to be listed by the company, after 0x.
That being said, not all customers can trade the token at press time. The exchange noted that "BAT will be available for customers in most jurisdictions, but will not initially be available for residents of the state of New York."
Coinbase Pro customers in the Empire State are similarly unable to trade BAT just yet.
The price of BAT saw an immediate reaction from the market upon official word of its listing on Coinbase, including a 5 percent jump in price in just a few minutes to reach $0.39, its highest price since July 24th.
The spike was backed by $15 million of volume in a 15-minute span on the Binance exchange alone. Profit-taking quickly ensued after the initial boost and the current trading hour is recording a loss of 8 percent from the initial high.
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Friday11 Nov
Why We Chose to Live in Canada
Moving to a foreign land is a big deal, having to change citizenship is even a bigger deal. But there was something about canada that made it easier for me and my family to embrace the culture and be hooked up with the country. I was not aware of these small facts and reasons, but after years of living here, I was able to create a list on why we chose to stay.
- Because everything is affordable.
When we say affordable, it does not mean prices are cheap or in surplus; everything seems affordable because there are less expenses to pay. A home mortgage is generally cheaper, clothing, beauty products, and even food is much more affordable. I did not have to work overtime and save every single penny as I did before. The job pays for more than what I need and I can afford to treat my family out once in a while.
- Because there is balance.
Canada has the best of both worlds: the urban life and the rural countryside living. You can live in a city and still be surrounded by majestic mountains or take nature walks and trails to work. Growing up in a city wherein the park is my only refuge to experience nature, the vastness of wildlife in Canada lured me in without having to say a word. It has that perfect balance of being developed and still retain its connection with nature. We fell in love with this setting and immediately wanted to be part its community.
- Because immigration is easy.
Unlike other countries, Canada has an immigration program that is very reasonable and easy to understand. At first I planned on just being an expat and be on working visa, but then because I felt comfortable after a few weeks that things are generally easier in this part of the world. I did not want to be a tourist and not have all the benefits of a citizen, so we took advantage of their immigration program.
- Because it embraces a number of ethnicities.
This might be the best reason that made us appreciate Canada even more. Half of the population of developed cities in the country is comprised of individuals who were born in another country. It was a boiling pot of diversity, and when we saw how every individual is not hindered and are able to express their cultures, we were hooked. Living in Canada is like living in the world with no boundaries, we were able to see and experience what every ethnicity has to offer. This kind of diversity is what sets Canada apart from the rest, it embraces every human that wants to be part of its community.
These are the four reasons I can think of on why it became easy for us to decide on living in Canada. It might not be the case for you, but I'm sure you have your own story to tell. Moving to a new country does not mean you stop loving your original motherland, but it only means you are not being hindered by territorial boundaries and that the world is waiting to be explored.


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The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University will hold a series of Creative Writing in Spanish public events during the fall semester. All the events are free and begin at 7 p.m. at the Center, which is located at 53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan streets, New York, N.Y. No RSVP is required.
• September 13: Welcome reading. MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish students will read excerpts of their work. Introduced by MFA Director Rubén Ríos Avila.
• October 12: Presentation of the anthology Voces para Lilith. Literatura contemporánea de temática lésbica en Sudamérica. Editor Claudia Salazar will talk about the process of editing the anthology and anthologized poets Mariela Dreyfus and Ely Rosa Zamora will read selections of their work.
• October 25: La palabra en el espacio, lecture by Miguel Rubio, Peruvian actor, playwright and founder of legendary Grupo cultural Yuyachkani. A discussion with Rubén Ríos Avila will follow.
• December 6: A reading by renowned Puerto Rican writer and gay activist Luis Negrón, author of the outstanding short-story collection Mundo cruel. A discussion with Rubén Ríos Avila will follow.


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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Bulletproof glass and other security measures can make schools safer, but there's no way to completely eliminate the risk of violence, architects testified Friday before a panel set up by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy after the Newtown school shootings.
The architects told the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission that there are numerous safety actions, both inexpensive and costly, that school officials can take. They include further limiting access to buildings, removing sight-line obstructions outside schools, installing locks on classroom doors, allowing police to access surveillance cameras inside schools from computers in their cruisers and putting up reinforced glass.
Classrooms can even be configured to make it look like they're empty from hallway doors, the architects said.
"The reality is hazards can arise in any one of these locations," said Jim LaPosta, chief architectural officer for JCJ Architecture in Hartford, referring to places inside and outside schools. "There is really nothing we can do to guarantee a risk-free environment."
What security experts can do, LaPosta said, is to assess the safety of schools and recommend changes including ways to slow down attacks. LaPosta said a main question is how to improve security without making schools less welcoming and more intimidating to students and the community.
Showing a picture of a castle on a video screen, LaPosta asked, "How do we fortify our schools without creating fortresses out of them?"
Commission member Ezra Griffith, a psychiatrist and research scientist at Yale University, questioned the need to make wholesale changes in school security.
"It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because it's not a frequent phenomenon," Griffith said about mass shootings.
He added that many schools and colleges declined to make major security changes after the killings at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech because of cost and other factors.
On Dec. 14, 20-year-old Newtown resident Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after having shot his mother to death earlier in the day at their home. The motive remains unclear.
The shootings happened after the school's entrances were scheduled to be locked when the school day began. Police said Lanza entered the school by shooting out the front entrance's windows.
Architect Glenn Gollenberg of the S/L/A/M Collaborative in Glastonbury said there are different levels of glass reinforcement all the way up to bulletproofing. But installing reinforced glass in schools can be costly - starting at $3,000 to $4,000 per classroom - and communities need to decide how much they're willing to spend on security measures.
Gollenberg showed the commission a minute-long video of men trying to break reinforced glass with a sledgehammer. They eventually managed to put a hole in the glass.
The architects said one of their most important recommendations was for school officials to work closely with police on incident response plans. While firefighters often are familiar with the layout of schools from inspections and drills, police officers can be less knowledgeable and that can lead to confusion when responding to violence, they said.
That's why, LaPosta said, it would be helpful if officers could access interior surveillance cameras from outside schools so they could see what's going on inside and respond appropriately.
The architects shied away from recommending statewide security mandates, saying safety decisions are best left to cities and towns.
The advisory commission is supposed to give a list of recommendations on school security, mental health issues and gun violence prevention to Malloy by March 15.


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Graeff, op den (Opdegraf, Updegrave, Updegrove) family
Op den Graeff (Opdegraf, Updegrave, Updegrove), an old Krefeld Mennonite family, which turned Quaker in part ca. 1679-1680, four members of which immigrated to Germantown with the first 13 immigrant families in October 1683. Some of their descendants continued in or returned to the Mennonite faith and were found in the Montgomery County congregations of Skippack and Boyertown until modern times. The grandfather of the first Germantown immigrants, Herman, a linen weaver and merchant, was born 26 November 1585 of Mennonite parents in Aldekerk, about 12 miles (20 km) from Krefeld, moved in 1609 to Krefeld, married Grietjen Pletjes of Kempen in 1615, died 27 December 1642, leaving 18 children. This Herman op den Graeff was one of two delegates of the Krefeld Mennonite Church to sign the Dordrecht Confession in 1632 and served as preacher in the congregation there.
One son of Herman, Isaac Hermans op den Graeff, born in 1616, married Grietjen Peters (d. 1679), was converted with his family to Quakerism. His widow, who died in Philadelphia 19 October 1683, his three sons Derick (Dirk) Isaacs, Herman Isaacs, and Abraham Isaacs, and a daughter Margrit (married later to Peter Schumacher, immigrant from Kriegsheim who arrived in 1685) immigrated to Germantown as part of the 13 famous first families on the Concord, arriving at Philadelphia, 6 October 1683, settling in Germantown soon thereafter. Dirk was married in a Quaker ceremony in 1687 in Krefeld, to Nölken Vijtten, probably a daughter of Veit Scherkes, one of the 13 family heads. Herman had been previously married to Liesbet Isaacs, a daughter of Isaac van Bebber, another of the 13 first families. The op den Graerfs were a family of linen weavers in Krefeld and continued this occupation in Germantown, although the three brothers purchased jointly 2,000 acres of land in Germantown from William Penn's agents in Rotterdam, Jacob Telner and Benjamin Furley.
Dirk op den Graeff was the ieader of the 13-family immigrant group and remained prominent in Germantown civic life. He with his brother Abraham signed the famous first petition against slavery in America in 1688. In 1689 he was one of the 11 charter members of the Germantown corporation, in 1692 he was one of the town's six "committeemen," and in 1693-1694 he was the bailiff or chief executive (burgomaster). He died childless in 1697. Herman op den Graeff, like his brother Dirk, was a member of the Germantown Quaker meeting, one of the 11 charter members of the corporation, and died childless 2 May 1704, after having moved to Delaware County.
Abraham op den Graeff, the youngest of the three brothers, married to a Catharine (last name unknown), the) most skilled as a weaver, was the only one of the family to return to the Mennonite faith, which he did sometime after 1708. (His name is not in the Morgan Edwards list of the Germantown members of that year.) He was also the only one to have children. He died 25 March 1731, leaving four children, Isaac, Jacob, Margaret, and Anne, and was buried in the Evansburg Mennonite cemetery. Since his brothers died childless he inherited their land, but sold his house and 828 acres in Germantown sometime after 1704 and moved to Perkiomen, where he laid out the remaining 1,200 acres of the op den Graeff land. His son Jacob appears as a signer of a petition of 1728 to the governor of Pennsylvania for protection against the Indigenous.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 152-154. Has separate articles on Herman op den Graeff and each of his three sons.
Die Heimat (Krefeld, 1927): 23.
Hull, W. I. William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania. Swarthmore College, 1935: 209-218. Has biographies of the three sons.
Pennypacker, Samuel W. "Abraham and Dirck op den Graeff." Penn Monthly 6 (1875): 679-692. Reprinted in Pennypacker, Samuel W. Historical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia, 1883: 201-221.
Rembert, Karl. Die "Wiedertäufer" im Herzogtum Jülich. Berlin: R. Gaertners Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1899.
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Bender, Harold S. "Graeff, op den (Opdegraf, Updegrave, Updegrove) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 Sep 2023. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Graeff,_op_den_(Opdegraf,_Updegrave,_Updegrove)_family&oldid=174689.
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Bender, Harold S. (1957). Graeff, op den (Opdegraf, Updegrave, Updegrove) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 September 2023, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Graeff,_op_den_(Opdegraf,_Updegrave,_Updegrove)_family&oldid=174689.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 561. All rights reserved.
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Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget
Good evening. Tonight I want to talk about the debate we've been having in Washington over the national debt, a debate that directly affects the lives of all Americans.
For the last decade, we've spent more money than we take in. In the year 2000, the Government had a budget surplus. But instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts, while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our Nation's credit card.
As a result, the deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office. To make matters worse, the recession meant that there was less money coming in, and it required us to spend even more: on tax cuts for middle class families to spur the economy, on unemployment insurance, on aid to States so we could prevent more teachers and firefighters and police officers from being laid off. These emergency steps also added to the deficit.
Now, every family knows a little credit card debt is manageable. But if we stay on the current path, our growing debt could cost us jobs and do serious damage to the economy. More of our tax dollars will go toward paying off the interest on our loans. Businesses will be less likely to open up shop and hire workers in a country that can't balance its books. Interest rates could climb for everyone who borrows money: the homeowner with a mortgage, the student with a college loan, the corner store that wants to expand. And we won't have enough money to make job-creating investments in things like education and infrastructure or pay for vital programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Because neither party is blameless for the decisions that led to this problem, both parties have a responsibility to solve it. And over the last several months, that's what we've been trying to do. I won't bore you with the details of every plan or proposal, but basically, the debate has centered around two different approaches.
The first approach says, let's live within our means by making serious, historic cuts in Government spending. Let's cut domestic spending to the lowest level it's been since Dwight Eisenhower was President. Let's cut defense spending at the Pentagon by hundreds of billions of dollars. Let's cut out waste and fraud in health care programs like Medicare, and at the same time, let's make modest adjustments so that Medicare is still there for future generations. Finally, let's ask the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations to give up some of their breaks in the Tax Code and special deductions.
This balanced approach asks everyone to give a little without requiring anyone to sacrifice too much. It would reduce the deficit by around $4 trillion and put us on a path to pay down our debt. And the cuts wouldn't happen so abruptly that they'd be a drag on our economy or prevent us from helping small businesses and middle class families get back on their feet right now.
This approach is also bipartisan. While many in my own party aren't happy with the painful cuts it makes, enough will be willing to accept them if the burden is fairly shared. While Republicans might like to see deeper cuts and no revenue at all, there are many in the Senate who have said, "Yes, I'm willing to put politics aside and consider this approach because I care about solving the problem." And to his credit, this is the kind of approach the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, was working on with me over the last several weeks.
The only reason this balanced approach isn't on its way to becoming law right now is because a significant number of Republicans in Congress are insisting on a different approach, a cuts-only approach, an approach that doesn't ask the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations to contribute anything at all. And because nothing is asked of those at the top of the income scale, such an approach would close the deficit only with more severe cuts to programs we all care about, cuts that place a greater burden on working families.
So the debate right now isn't about whether we need to make tough choices. Democrats and Republicans agree on the amount of deficit reduction we need. The debate is about how it should be done. Most Americans, regardless of political party, don't understand how we can ask a senior citizen to pay more for her Medicare before we ask a corporate jet owner or the oil companies to give up tax breaks that other companies don't get. How can we ask a student to pay more for college before we ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries? How can we slash funding for education and clean energy before we ask people like me to give up tax breaks we don't need and didn't ask for?
That's not right. It's not fair. We all want a Government that lives within its means, but there are still things we need to pay for as a country, things like new roads and bridges, weather satellites and food inspection, services to veterans and medical research.
And keep in mind that under a balanced approach, the 98 percent of Americans who make under $250,000 would see no tax increases at all. None. In fact, I want to extend the payroll tax cut for working families. What we're talking about under a balanced approach is asking Americans whose incomes have gone up the most over the last decade--millionaires and billionaires--to share in the sacrifice everyone else has to make. And I think these patriotic Americans are willing to pitch in.
In fact, over the last few decades, they've pitched in every time we passed a bipartisan deal to reduce the deficit. The first time a deal was passed, a predecessor of mine made the case for a balanced approach by saying this: "Would you rather reduce deficits and interest rates by raising revenue from those who are not now paying their fair share, or would you rather accept larger budget deficits, higher interest rates, and higher unemployment? And I think I know your answer."
Those words were spoken by Ronald Reagan. But today, many Republicans in the House refuse to consider this kind of balanced approach, an approach that was pursued not only by President Reagan, but by the first President Bush, by President Clinton, by myself, and by many Democrats and Republicans in the United States Senate. So we're left with a stalemate.
Now, what makes today's stalemate so dangerous is that it has been tied to something known as the debt ceiling, a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.
Understand, raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up. In the past, raising the debt ceiling was routine. Since the 1950s, Congress has always passed it, and every President has signed it. President Reagan did it 18 times. George W. Bush did it seven times. And we have to do it by next Tuesday, August 2, or else, we won't be able to pay all of our bills.
Unfortunately, for the past several weeks, Republican House Members have essentially said that the only way they'll vote to prevent America's first-ever default is if the rest of us agree to their deep, spending-cuts-only approach.
If that happens and we default, we would not have enough money to pay all of our bills, bills that include monthly Social Security checks, veterans' benefits, and the Government contracts we've signed with thousands of businesses.
For the first time in history, our country's AAA credit rating would be downgraded, leaving investors around the world to wonder whether the United States is still a good bet. Interest rates would skyrocket on credit cards, on mortgages, and on car loans, which amounts to a huge tax hike on the American people. We would risk sparking a deep economic crisis, this one caused almost entirely by Washington.
So defaulting on our obligations is a reckless and irresponsible outcome to this debate. And Republican leaders say that they agree we must avoid default. But the new approach that Speaker Boehner unveiled today, which would temporarily extend the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts, would force us to once again face the threat of default just 6 months from now. In other words, it doesn't solve the problem.
First of all, a 6-month extension of the debt ceiling might not be enough to avoid a credit downgrade and the higher interest rates that all Americans would have to pay as a result. We know what we have to do to reduce our deficits; there's no point in putting the economy at risk by kicking the can further down the road.
But there's an even greater danger to this approach. Based on what we've seen these past few weeks, we know what to expect 6 months from now. The House of Representatives will once again refuse to prevent default unless the rest of us accept their cuts-only approach. Again they will refuse to ask the wealthiest Americans to give up their tax cuts or deductions. Again they will demand harsh cuts to programs like Medicare. And once again the economy will be held captive unless they get their way.
This is no way to run the greatest country on Earth. It's a dangerous game that we've never played before, and we can't afford to play it now. Not when the jobs and livelihoods of so many families are at stake. We can't allow the American people to become collateral damage to Washington's political warfare.
And Congress now has one week left to act, and there are still paths forward. The Senate has introduced a plan to avoid default, which makes a downpayment on deficit reduction and ensures that we don't have to go through this again in 6 months.
I think that's a much better approach, although serious deficit reduction would still require us to tackle the tough challenges of entitlement and tax reform. Either way, I've told leaders of both parties that they must come up with a fair compromise in the next few days that can pass both Houses of Congress and a compromise that I can sign. I'm confident we can reach this compromise. Despite our disagreements, Republican leaders and I have found common ground before. And I believe that enough members of both parties will ultimately put politics aside and help us make progress.
Now, I realize that a lot of the new Members of Congress and I don't see eye to eye on many issues. But we were each elected by some of the same Americans for some of the same reasons. Yes, many want Government to start living within its means. And many are fed up with a system in which the deck seems stacked against middle class Americans in favor of the wealthiest few.
But do you know what people are fed up with most of all? They're fed up with a town where compromise has become a dirty word. They work all day long, many of them scraping by, just to put food on the table. And when these Americans come home at night, bone tired, and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan three-ring circus here in Washington. They see leaders who can't seem to come together and do what it takes to make life just a little bit better for ordinary Americans. They're offended by that. And they should be.
The American people may have voted for divided Government, but they didn't vote for a dysfunctional Government. So I'm asking you all to make your voice heard. If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know. If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message.
America, after all, has always been a grand experiment in compromise. As a democracy made up of every race and religion, where every belief and point of view is welcomed, we have put to the test time and again the proposition at the heart of our founding: that out of many, we are one. We've engaged in fierce and passionate debates about the issues of the day, but from slavery to war, from civil liberties to questions of economic justice, we have tried to live by the words that Jefferson once wrote: "Every man cannot have his way in all things. . . . Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society."
History is scattered with the stories of those who held fast to rigid ideologies and refused to listen to those who disagreed. But those are not the Americans we remember. We remember the Americans who put country above self and set personal grievances aside for the greater good. We remember the Americans who held this country together during its most difficult hours, who put aside pride and party to form a more perfect Union.
That's who we remember. That's who we need to be right now. The entire world is watching. So let's seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth, not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one Nation.
Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.
Note: The President spoke at 9:01 p.m. in the East Room at the White House.
Barack Obama, Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/290721


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How to save on modeling fees
At the Terrible's Sands Regency in Reno, Dave noticed this ad on the table in the room. "Wait -- isn't that the same guy, twice?"
Sure enough -- not just the same person, but the same photo, with different hair and neck pixeled in.
I guess Photoshop/GIMP artists are cheaper than photo models these days.
We spotted the same model in other ads around the hotel, sometimes
masquerading as other races as well.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 25, 2014) – Shape Security today revealed it raised $40 million in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) to continue its mission of reinventing web defense. Last month, Shape came out of stealth to unveil its flagship product, the ShapeShifter™ that protects enterprises against the most dangerous cyber attacks. The company will use the new funds to continue to enhance the capabilities of its real-time polymorphic defense and to build a worldwide sales force.
NVP and Sierra Ventures join existing investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Google Ventures, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures, and Allegis Capital in this round.
"Shape is introducing something completely revolutionary to defend against all types of automated attacks that have been the cause of many high-profile breaches in the last year. The company is changing the economics of web hacking by making it harder for cybercriminals to complete their missions," said Promod Haque, senior managing partner at NVP. "With Shape's experienced leadership team and its innovative technology, the economic and social impact they will have on the fight against cyber crime is evident and Norwest Venture Partners is excited to be a part of this movement."
NVP was an early stage investor in FireEye, which recently acquired Mandiant. Sierra was an investor in Sourcefire, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013. Shape previously raised $26 million in Series A and B funding, bringing its total amount of capital raised to $66 million.
"Shape's technology is disruptive to the entire cybersecurity market," said Tim Guleri, managing director of Sierra Ventures. "By preventing the automation which enables malware to function, Shape is able to effectively do with a single technology what others cannot do with a dozen products."
The ShapeShifter is the industry's first botwall, offering a comprehensive defense against major website attacks. Existing security technologies try to detect attacks based on how they appeared or behaved in the past. This is not effective against adversaries who are constantly changing their code and behaviors to avoid detection. It also does nothing against previously unknown attacks. Instead of guessing about the nature of traffic, the ShapeShifter uses real-time polymorphism to turn websites into constantly moving targets, creating a new foundational defense for user interfaces, which disables attacks from malware, botnets and scripts.
"Since our launch last month, we have been inundated with inquiries from customers all over the world," said Derek Smith, Shape Security CEO. "We have worked with early adopters in financial services, healthcare and retail, and our goal with this new funding is to scale quickly to protect every industry."
Shape Security will be at RSA 2014 in San Francisco. To learn more about real-time polymorphism and the ShapeShifter, visit booth #2001.
About Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a multi-stage investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years. The firm manages more than $3.7 billion in capital and has funded over 500 companies since inception. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early- to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. For more information, visit: www.nvp.com.
About Shape Security
Shape Security is led by cybersecurity experts and former executives from Google, the Pentagon, VMware, Cisco, Mozilla and Palo Alto Networks. The company has raised $66M in Series A, B and C funding from Norwest Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Google Ventures, Wing Venture Partners, Allegis Capital, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures and former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem. For more information, visit www.shapesecurity.com.
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