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Individuals are drawn into compact fluorescent bulbs due to their environmentally-friendly label, but anyone who has really looked into these incandescent alternatives knows of the numerous health and environmental dangers of CFL bulbs. A recent study sheds light on just one such concern associated with the 'green' CFL bulbs, showing how they are capable of actually frying your skin with UVA radiation.
CFL Bulbs Can Fry Your Skin
Following a study in Europe examining the effects of CFL bulbs on the skin, researchers from Stony Brook University in New York conducted a similar study to examine the bulbs' impact on human skin cells. For the study, the researchers purchased CFL bulb from various locations, and then measured the amount of UV radiation emissions. What they found was "significant levels of UVC and UVA" which was a result of cracks that were present in the coating on the bulbs. Every single one of the bulbs studied.
After studying the effects of these emission on human skin cells, they discovered that healthy skin cells experienced the same damage you would find with ultraviolet radiation. Similar tests were also conducted using incandescent light bulbs of the same intensity along with the implementation of UV-absorbing Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, which are found within many personal care products. While the incandescent light bulbs had no negative effect on healthy skin cells, the researchers couldn't say the same for CFL bulbs.
"Our study revealed that the response of healthy skin cells to UV emitted from CFL bulbs is consistent with damage from ultraviolet radiation…Skin cell damage was further enhanced when low dosages of TiO2 nanoparticles were introduced to the skin cells prior to exposure," ," said Professor Rafailovich. "Despite their large energy savings, consumers should be careful when using compact fluorescent light bulbs…Our research shows that it is best to avoid using them at close distances and that they are safest when placed behind an additional glass cover."
This, of course, isn't the only issue with compact fluorescent bulbs. In addition to having a potential negative impact on your skin, these bulbs emit toxic chemicals. In fact, only months after it was found that energy saving fluorescent bulbs release carcinogenic chemicals into the air, a new study has found that these harmful chemicals are continually released from the bulbs over a period of weeks to months. In addition to releasing these cancer-causing chemicals, which are far beyond the "safe" level set by the EPA, these bulbs also release levels of mercury which also exceed the "safe" levels for humans.
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Sandra Dee Biography
Sandra Dee(Alexandria Zuck)
Born: 4/23/1942
Birthplace: Bayonne, New Jersey
Originally a model, the petite Sandra Dee moved onto TV commercials, then broke into teeny-bopper films of the 1950s. Her most popular films were the beach movies Gidget (1959) and A Summer Place (1959). She was married to singer Bobby Darin from 1960–67 and occasionally appeared in TV movies in the 1970s.Died: 2/20/2005
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By William Basso.
via Creep Machine.
Friday, May 21, 2010
The Pale Thing
By William Basso.
Posted by Rot at 1:10 PM
Labels: art, artist, basso-art.com, creep machine, creepmachine.com, the pale thing, william basso
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Those were some really insane works.The one named "Keyhole" was really cool!
- May 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Pam Morris said...
this guy's work is phenomenal! I'm amazed at his methods in creating his art--he actually sculpts most of this stuff into objects and then with photomanipulation, etc., turns out these fantastic "paintings". so cool...thanks for sharing the info
- May 21, 2010 at 9:47 PM
- SaraHaase said...
IN LOVE. Thank you so much for exposing all these artists.
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Citi Research is out with a list of 10 disruptive innovations.
It's a brand-new list from the one did they did last year.
"For the most part, when people think about disruptive innovation, technology is the first thing that comes to mind — smartphones, flat-screen TVs, MP3 players — things that have come on the market that have totally replaced products that we had and make us think, 'How did we ever live without this wonderful machine?''" said Citi's Kathleen Boyle. "But disruption can be so much more than just a better way to listen to music."
Check it out:
4-D Printing
Description: The movement is spearheaded by a guy named Skylar Tibbits, a researcher in MIT's architecture department, in collaboration with Stratasys Ltd. and Autodesk Inc. The idea is this: You used 3-D printers to print out smart materials that can shape or assemble themselves. The concept is still in its infancy, but Citi says this could help people build stuff in extreme conditions, or allow medical devices to construct themselves once they're implanted.
"Utilizing a 3-D printer to build the object layer by layer, intelligence can be imprinted directly into the actual structure [via more rigid or flexible materials] dictating the transformation and the eventual shape of the object."
Insane stat: The U.S. Army recently contributed $855,000, split among Harvard, the University of Illinois, and the University of Pittsburgh to help advance projects focused on 4-D printing.
Relevant graphic: Watch THIS!
4D Printing: Truncated Octahedron from Skylar Tibbits on Vimeo.
Digital Banking
Description: Citi says that, though it remains at an early stage, mobile banking is going to take off around the world. They forecast an 86% compound annual growth rate to $447 billion from $69 billion in 2016. Although the largest volumes will be in developed markets, the greatest opportunities for new entrants lie in emerging markets thanks to the relative lack of established financial institutions.
Meanwhile, more and more banking services will become automated, resulting in savings costs.
Insane stat: Norway, Finland, and Sweden operate at branch per population densities two times or more below developed market peers.
Relevant graphic: Cash intensity by country.
Digital Currency
Has Bitcoin finally made it? Citi's Steven Englander, who's written about the cryptocurrency, gives a basic introduction and talks up the potential of the block chain (both Bitcoin's and the concept in general). He poses the technology's potential thusly: "Bitcoin advocates who benefit from Bitcoin appreciation argue strongly for its role as an asset, but the transactions technology is generic and efficient and less complicated than introducing an intermediate currency (Bitcoin) to facilitate USD to USD or USD to EUR transactions."
Insane stat: As of April 2014, Bitcoinpulse counted 29,000 merchants accepting Bitcoin.
Relevant graphic: Price vs. transaction volume.
Digital Marketing
Description: There's nothing new here per se but Citi says growth will start accelerating. The main outcome of this will be more user data. "The digital market uses and generates massive amounts of data and it is this data that differentiates digital marketing from traditional offline marketing. The result is a highly personalized experience for a consumer across all channels in an experience that the prospective or current customer appreciates and they in turn encourage through greater access to their personal data."
Insane stat: Real-time bidding-based digital ad spending will see a 66% compound annual growth rate into 2016. (Real-time bidding means the ad-buying and placement process is automatic.)
Relevant graphic: The return to publishers from ads is not what it used to be.
Electric Vehicles
Description: Citi's interesting suggestion, from analyst Itay Michaeli, for wider market goes like this: "The consumer purchases a new EV at a much lower price ($11-13k depending on size/ cost) and does so worry free of any residual value risk tied to future battery technology advancements. The operator would own the batteries, bill customers and operate battery switching stations that allow consumers to quickly (and robotically) switch batteries when desired or when taking very long drives."
Insane stat: Tesla plans to offer a Gen-3 model priced at $35,000. "A $35k price point is historically what's required to begin the path towards achieving sizeable volume of over 100k units (typically 2-3 years after launch), in theory enough to crown Tesla as the 1st mover in the affordable pure EV market."
Relevant graphic: This cost-comparison table.
Energy Storage
Here is the clearest justification for energy storage we've yet seen, from Citi's Jason Channell: Solar generates its electricity when most households are empty or have limited demand. Saving that electricity for later would dramatically offset consumption prices. He continues: "The potentially greater value is in terms of avoided capacity payments, and the grid stability which storage could provide. If storage could be combined with smart metering and demand response, we could conceivably move to a situation where load is managed (i.e., by dishwashers etc. being turned on automatically when demand was lowest and vice versa) and supply is being managed by storage. This could significantly reduce the amount of stranded capacity and hence wasted cost on an electricity system, as well as improve its reliability."
Insane stat: In the first quarter of 2014, solar and wind combined generated 28% of German electricity.
Relevant graphic: Here is the breakdown of the potential market size for different storage technologies.
Immunotherapy involves training the immune system to both better recognize cancer cells and attack them so that cancer becomes nothing more than a chronic condition. From Citi's Andrew Baum: "While existing chemotherapy or even newer oral drugs have a powerful initial effect on tumor shrinkage (the so called "response rate"), the durability of these responses are typically very short, after which the tumor begins to grow again and starts to spread (metastasize). In contrast, the durability of responses with immunotherapy can last a decade or longer, due to the induction of an ongoing immunological memory, targeting cancer cells for an indeterminate length of time and making it a potential tool to transform a significant percentage of cancers into something akin to a chronic disease."
Insane stat: Two-thirds of Western cancer incidence could be successfully treated with immunotherapy.
Relevant graphic: Here's how many more people immunotherapy will keep alive.
Insurance Securitization
Description: Insurance securitization represents a threat to reinsurance, which is how insurers currently pool their own risk. Instead of having to dump all that risk into one or two firms, insurance securitization would allow an insurer to spread their risk across capital markets in the form of securitized bundles.
Insane stat: Reinsurers had to cut their prices 15% in response to securitizers.
Relevant graphic: Most insurance-linked securities are focused on property policies like hurricane insurance. But some tried to get smart and sell life-insurance policies into the capital markets. After the financial crisis, they wised up:
Precision Agriculture
Description: Citi bundles a bunch of different technologies into this category. They include: yield mapping, soil sampling and mapping, hyper-local weather detectors, a farming machine Internet, and big data. "Unless there is a major divergence from historical trends, new land will not be nearly enough to meet [global food demand]. Farm productivity needs to take another step higher, and we think Precision Agriculture will be an important avenue to achieve these productivity gains."
Insane stat: The average age of a U.S. farmer is 57.
Relevant graphic: Here's how much more food Citi says we're going to need in the coming decades.
Description: The world leader? China, thanks to "the up-trend of wages (albeit from relatively low levels), the peaking out of the working population, the high level of job-hopping and the general trend of Chinese workers not wanting low-paid manual assembly, picking, inspecting or packaging jobs in factories."
Insane stat: U.S. manufacturing comprises just 12% of GDP, meaning that in that sector at least, there may not be that many more replaceable workers.
Relevant graphic: The CAGR for global volumes is about 8.5%.


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Mozilla on Monday began rolling out its first major Firefox user interface (UI) change in more than three years, seeding early adopters of the "Nightly" build with the new "Australis" revamp.
Nightly builds are designed for preliminary testing, and as the name implies, are automatically updated each night to that day's edition. Firefox's Nightly builds are Mozilla's roughest-edged editions.
[See also: A slideshow tour of the UI changes in the latest Firefox Nightly build.]
"[Australis] is the next iteration of the Firefox user interface," said Madhava Enros, the head of Firefox's user experience (UX) design team, in a Monday blog. "It's not quite finished, and it needs more polish, which is exactly why we're so eager to get it out to a wider set of the community."
Mozilla last refreshed the browser's UI with Firefox 4, which launched in March 2011. It has been working on the new UI since at least May 2012, when Enros first brought up the changes.
Australis, said Enros, is Mozilla's attempt to both streamline the browser's UI and standardize it across all platforms, ranging from the desktop -- where versions are available for Windows, OS X and Linux -- to mobile. Mozilla has a version of Firefox for Android and is working on a "Modern," or "Metro," app for Windows 8.1.
Most of the visual changes appear relatively subtle. Tabs, for example, are more rounded than in the current production edition, and inactive tabs fade deeper into the background.
Enros put that into design-speak. "One of the most noticeable changes is our tab shape. Ours is Firefoxy - organic, friendly, and fluid," he said. "Background tabs are visually de-emphasized, leaving a space that's uncluttered and calm, where it's quick and easy to see which tab is currently selected."
Other departures from the UI and UX include a new customization panel and a Chrome-like menu on the far right that displays icons representing commands such as print, save page and accessing the browser history and preferences.
One change, however, may be more disruptive. Australis has discarded the orange Firefox menu in Windows, an element which first popped up in Firefox 4. The Firefox menu condensed most commands formerly on the traditional Windows menu into a single-click destination.
And Firefox will retain the separate address and search fields at the top of the window, even though users can type search strings into both. Other major browsers, including Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer, have done away with a separate space for entering searches.
While Enros was enthusiastic about the Australis debut -- "That's the new Firefox -- beautiful, streamlined, and customizable," he wrote at the end of his post -- and most users who left comments were complementary, a few weren't happy.
"Fine, switching to Chrome now," said Dom Diesel. "If you force a Chrome-like design on me ... I can also use the real thing."
Others said they'd give the changes a chance. "It's a little heartbreaking to see the old UI go, but I'll give the new one a shot," said Tom Hunkapiller, a Missouri-based developer.
Australis is currently slated to appear in the production version of Firefox 28, which has a ship date of March 4, 2014, according to recent notes on Mozilla's website. At one point, Mozilla was shooting for Firefox 25, which launched near the end of October.
The Nightly build of Firefox for Windows, OS X and Linux can be downloaded from Mozilla's website.
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Whether its about sex or money, if parents are not open and honest with their kids, kids grow up and are forced to make mistakes to learn on their own.
Goes to show what happens when parents don't communicate with their kids.
A new show named Bank of Mom and Dad just premiered on 9/30/09 on SOAPnet. This show chronicles parents who attempt to reform their financially irresponsible adult children by moving in with them for a week. With the aid of a "money coach," the parents take actions to reform their spendthrift kid. Can this financial intervention really work?
I watched the premiere episode on Hulu.com and I must admit that it was a pretty entertaining show. The indebted child is a 33 year old single woman named Christina who looks a bit like Jillian from The Biggest Loser. She makes about $2500 a month as a bartender and spends around $3500 per month and she has accumulated over $38,000 in debt. Her parents have been divorced for 10 years, but they joined forces to participate in their daughter's financial makeover. They were also given advice by a straight talking personal finance coach who cut to the core of Christina's financial problems. The coach was not the main focus of the show and she had three very short meetings with the family and created a budget for Christina to focus on paying for necessities first.
What I really liked is that Christina's parents tried to teach her that she could enjoy the things she loves without spending as much as she does. For example, her mom Lorraine challenged her to spend less on groceries. Both women had the same shopping list and went to the same grocery store. The mom spent $57 for the items in her cart while Christina spent $193. Christina argued that the things she bought would taste better so her mom set up a blind taste test. Out of six food items, Christina preferred four of her mom's more frugal choices. It was quite hilarious when Lorraine cheered jubilantly when her daughter could not tell the difference between tap water and the expensive bottled water from Italy. I think this is actually a good experiment for those who spend too much on gourmet food. Could you tell the difference between $17 and $7 olive oils?
Christina's dad also showed a bit of tough love when he called the city to impound Christina's car since she owes over $1300 in parking tickets. The dad offered to get the car out of impound, but he also made Christina write him a $500 check upfront, and sign a contract that states that she would pay him back in full in a year. Personally I think this is what every parent should do when they loan money to their adult children.
In the end, it is hard to tell if Christina would keep up her new budget since the parental intervention only lasted one week, but in a blog update she states that the show has waken her up to her messy financial situation. Her parents did admit that they never taught her much about finances when she was young, but the idea of the show is that it is never too late to learn about personal finance and saving for yourself. I think one weakness of the first episode is that the money coach never talked to Christina about how she could increase her income, but the basic money saving and budgeting tips presented were on the spot. I will definitely tune in for the next episode, and you can also watch along for free on Hulu.com.
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Whether its about sex or money, if parents are not open and honest with their kids, kids grow up and are forced to make mistakes to learn on their own.
Goes to show what happens when parents don't communicate with their kids.
I also thought the show was entertaining and plan to watch it again. I also agree some advice about managing her income could have gone a long way, in addition to controlling spending. All she has to do to solve her financial problems is work another couple of shifts each week (hardly a tall order).
But this woman's problems weren't really financial - at least not at the root. Her laziness and apathy and ignorance are the real issues that are just manifesting themselves as financial problems. Everything about her life and habits is/was totally self-indulgent. Thank goodness her credit is so bad she can't get credit cards, or else she'd really be in trouble.
She accumulated $1300 in parking tickets, which is ridiculous in and of itself (I can just see her rolling out of bed and driving to yoga and deciding a $25 ticket is totally worth it so she doesn't have to walk a block or show up late). But not paying those tickets is even stupider; she could have ended up in jail or at least without her car, and would have had no money to get out. And she spends thousands of dollars a year on international travel, but has just never gotten around to getting health insurance even though she has health problems.
There were also plenty of places she could cut spending without even having to change her lifestyle, as her mom pointed out. But the real thing she needs to do is educate herself and set some goals. I was struck by her lack of ambition or desire for change, especially at her age.
I agree the biggest problem is lack of income. Her budget only allowed $250/month towards debt.
$38,000 / $250/month = 152 months or 12.7 years at 0% interest.
And the student loans are a huge waste. Why go to school then become a low paid bartender? Getting roommates would be another option.
I'll continue watching this if I remember to watch it. It's amazing how bad people can be with money.
Based on the opening credits, it seems like this show will focus primarily on women with money issues. I'm not sure why, I'm pretty sure there's PLENTY of spend thrifty men.
I think maybe it is because it's on a network about soap operas, so they think their target audience is women. I think it's pretty bizarre that it's on a network about soap operas,actually. In the BBC original Bank of Mum and Dad they did feature quite a few young men.
Thanks for posting that it's on hulu now! I was hoping it'd be on there, my Mom told me about the show and I've wanted to see it myself, but I don't have soapnet on cable. So thanks for the heads up! :)
It may be something almost unheard of these days in a society who widely accepts people who live off of (and with) their parents until almost 35 (or older!) but my parents raised me with tough love. I would not be doing so well as a young professional if they hadn't.
Since I was a child, I earned everything. I was a natural born entrepreneur, coming up with savvy and smart ways to earn money to put towards my manga addiction.
As I got older and moved out, I decided to become a writer because it was something I was naturally good at. I am thankful that my parents taught me the value of money at a young age. I am successful and though young, I rarely need their financial help.
It's really too bad this woman grew up forming such irresponsible spending habits, though I can see how it would be easy to get used to buying only the expensive versions of food. I hope that they worked on a structured budget for her on the show so that she keeps track of where her cash ends up each month.
I didn't catch the show, but now that it is on Hulu.com, I might have to check it out. The concept seems like it would be very entertaining. It's great that the coach tackles on-the-spot problems and helps the person set a budget through the parents, but I can see where this short-term planning may not last in the long-term.
I also wonder if Christina, the young woman with the financial problems, asked for help from her parents in the beginning. I'm just wondering who is contacting the show initially, if it's not the person in debt, that person may not be that motivated to change their lifestyle.
thanks for the review-
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I think people are very rational. If you have parents who will take care of you, you won't be incentivized to take care of yourself. You will take advantage up to a breaking point.
When I was bidding on property, I always encountered kids with their parents. We're talking $1-2 million properties here. I'm competing against not just the kid/child adult, but his/her parents balance sheets.
It is what it is.
Financial Samurai
"Slicing Through Money's Mysteries"
If her parents are both responsible financially then I wonder how the daughter ended up the way she is? Don't people really learn their financial habits primarily from their parents?


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June 30, 2008
The last and only time I went to Blogher, I had a great time. Seriously fabulous. Then I came home and learned that a fairly weird rumor was making the rounds about me -- somebody said I said something hurtful about somebody else, and although I could never quite nail down the specifics of who and what and huh, what I was able to piece together was something like this:
Somebody wrote something on their blog, quoting something they'd supposedly overheard an anonymous "mommyblogger" say about another blogger. This quote, which may or may not have actually been said by ANYONE, or at the very least was taken ridiculously out of context, somehow got attributed to me and expanded offline to include all sorts of other hurtful stuff. It sure didn't sound like anything I would ever say (mostly because I DIDN'T SAY IT), but still. I think the crazier the rumor, the harder it is to sputter out a believable-sounding denial. I did deny it, of course, and apologized in case I had said something as a joke (hi, wine! lots of it!) that had gotten misunderstood and twisted around. The injured parties assured me they believed me, but still. It's an ooky feeling to realize people think You Might Be That Sort Of Person, especially after meeting you in real life, when you're supposed to be safe from misinterpreted tone of typing or spam-filtered emails or a forgotten winking emoticon.
Anyway, it was all very strange and annoying and hopefully I'm the only person who even remembers it by now. Which brings me to the point of this post:
Listen. If you hear some CRAZY PUNK ASS rumor that I went and broke our own dear IzzyMom's foot with a baseball bat over a discounted conference pass just so I could indeed go to Blogher this year after all, let me just say right up front:
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
2 major lessons from the demise of The Daily — The publisher of News Corp.'s The Daily said earlier this year that the iPad-only publication might need a few more years to be profitable. Today the company announced it won't get that chance. — Although it has been one of the most-popular …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab: Some lessons from the demise of The Daily: Was it the platform, the content, the structure, or the business model?
Rob O'Regan / eMedia Vitals: Death, taxes and the demise of The Daily
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: News Corp. Shuts Down The Daily
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: The Daily is dead, but not for the reasons you might think
Charlie Warzel / Adweek: The Daily's Woes Proves Content, Not Platform Is King
Michael Roston / @michaelroston: Any analysis of The @Daily's fall that doesn't begin and end with it having a staff of more than 100 is useless on arrival.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: Murdoch kills The Daily
Christopher Zara / International Business Times: Why Rupert Murdoch's The Daily Failed And What It Means For iPad Publishing
Dustin Curtis / @dcurtis: The Daily failed for exactly three reasons: 1. It was engineered badly. 2. It was designed badly. 3. It was marketed badly. That's it.
Seth Fiegerman / @sfiegerman: The Daily is dead, NYTimes is axing more staffers, but at least John McAfee is safe. #weirdnewsday
Matthew Yglesias / Slate: How The Daily Could Have Worked: Journalism as Loss-Leader
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: The Daily Is Folding
Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com: Why The Daily Failed — About two years ago, when NewsCorp launched …
Carolyn Kellogg / Los Angeles Times: News Corp. shutters the Daily, launched as its iPad-only newspaper
Kelly Hodgkins / TUAW: News Corp. to shut down iPad-based newspaper, The Daily
Jim Romenesko:
Why The Daily Failed — Trevor Butterworth, who wrote about tech and other matters for The Daily iPad publication, writes on his Facebook wall: … * The Daily to cease publication Dec. 15 (wsj.com)
Discussion: AdAge, Digits, New York Magazine, Quartz, TPM IdeaLab, The Awl and CJR
Nat Ives / AdAge: News Corp. Shuts Down The Daily
Martin Peers / Digits: The Daily Will Cease Publication on Dec. 15
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Remembering The Daily: Former Staffers Saw This Coming
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: News Corp. shutters The Daily, its experiment in iPad-only news
David Taintor / TPM IdeaLab: The Daily Fails Like Many Expected It Would
Choire Sicha / The Awl: Anticipated Demise Occurs
Business Insider:
News Corp Is Shutting Down iPad-Only Newspaper The Daily — The latest News Corp press release says that the Daily, its standalone daily iPad newspaper, will "cease standalone publication". — The newspaper had a high profile launch in February 2011, but had apparently struggled to pay its way …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: News Corp's iPad-Only Newspaper, The Daily, Shutting Down, Brand And Some Staff Folded Into New York Post
Mark Sweney / Guardian: News Corp to close iPad newspaper The Daily
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo: The Daily Staffers To Meet At 11 AM, 6 PM To Discuss Details Of Closure
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Massive News Corp. Restructuring: Robert Thomson Named CEO of New Spinoff; The Daily Folds as NY Post Survives
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Absolutely true. Never got that from most of digerati. MT @jackshafer Got to give Murdoch credit for at least trying to innovate.
Robert Andrews / paidContent: News Corp.'s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
Taylor Owen / @taylor_owen: So The Daily is dead. Someone should compile a list pronoucements of products that were going the "save journalism" 1/2
Joshua Hersh / @joshuahersh: Sad news about the @Daily. Many talented reporters and editors there. I hope they'll be as we'll taken care of as the top dog.
Felix Salmon:
The impossibility of tablet-native journalism — The Daily has reached the end of its life: as News Corp splits in two, its losses, which might have been manageable within the current behemoth, would have loomed far too large in the smaller spinoff. — The news is not particularly surprising …
Discussion: Business Week, 90WPM, Garcia Media, The Next Web, ReadWrite, Electronista and MacStories
Felix Gillette / Business Week: Does Rupert Murdoch Know Something Tina Brown Doesn't?
Dr. Mario R. Garcia / Garcia Media: Requiem for The Daily … Purchase the book on the iBookstore
Paul Sawers / The Next Web: No surprise: News Corp. pulls the plug on its iPad-only newspaper app The Daily, after less than 2 years
John Paul Titlow / ReadWrite: The Daily Drops Dead: What Murdoch's Failure Means For iPad Publishing
Federico Viticci / MacStories: The Daily Shuts Down
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
The Daily's Final Day: About 100 Employees In The Newsroom, Little Inkling Of Layoffs — I spoke to a person inside The Daily who held a $40,000 reporter position for the now-shuttered "daily iPad newspaper." While not completely blindsided, they had little inkling of what was going on inside the paper …
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and The Next Web
Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com: News Corp. kills The Daily, its iPad newspaper
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
3 Theses About The Daily's Demise — The only way to even *know* what readers might like is to allow them to read and share on the open Internet. — Knowing what it's like inside a media company, let me state up front that there are epistemological problems in deciding from the outside why The Daily failed.
Peter Ha / Gizmodo:
What It Was Like Launching the Doomed iPad Magazine The Daily — I was the 19th employee hired by The Daily. My first day as the tech editor was on November 1, 2010, and the plan was to launch the next month. Needless to say, I was scared s**tless. — "You know you're going to go work for the devil, right?"
Discussion: New York Magazine and GeekWire
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: The Daily Never Really Stood a Chance
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Murdoch's 'Daily' is done: iPad newspaper to shut down
Jack Shafer:
The Daily didn't fail-Rupert gave up
The Daily didn't fail-Rupert gave up
Discussion: Capital New York and Quartz
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Champagne corks fly at 'The Journal' while, three floors up, Daily staffers start job-hunting
Champagne corks fly at 'The Journal' while, three floors up, Daily staffers start job-hunting
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Forbes, Guardian and NetNewsCheck Latest
Jim Romenesko: Rupert Murdoch: 'We aren't finished achieving what others deem impossible. Not even close.'
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Three Lessons From the Demise of The Daily
Emma G Keller / Guardian: Elisabeth Murdoch profile in The New Yorker reveals a daughter's PR acumen
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on the News Corp Split: The Rise of Twenty-First Century Fox and The Daily's Demise
Nine Questions on the News Corp Split: The Rise of Twenty-First Century Fox and The Daily's Demise
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Capital New York and MacRumors
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Rupert Murdoch on big News Corp. re-org: 'Daily' will shut down, Angelo moves to 'New York Post'
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
30 More Buyouts Coming to the New York Times — The New York Times, like the rest of the newspaper industry, went through a painful series of buyouts after the 2008 financial collapse exacerbated the already ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry. In 2009, they cut 100 positions.
Matthew Flamm / Media & Entertainment: Newsroom layoffs loom at The New York Times
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Déjà Vu at The New York Times as Newsroom Cuts Loom
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: The New York Times to Reduce Size of Newsroom
Emma Bazilian / Adweek: New York Times Offers Newsroom Buyouts
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder: New York Times Seeks Buyouts From 30 in Newsroom
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!: New York Times to Downsize Newsroom as Ad Revenues Falter
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Under cover of big News Corp. news, 'New York Times' announces 30 more buyouts
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
These Numbers Show Why The New York Times Is Firing More Journalists — The New York Times announced another round of newsroom cost cuts this morning, with editor Jill Abramson seeking voluntary resignations from 30 senior editors. — If 30 editors don't accept the buyouts, the NYT will proceed to involuntary firings.
Discussion: The Week and The Newspaper Guild
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Leveson blamed for police reluctance to identify high-profile Savile probe suspect — Lord Justice Leveson. Pic: Reuters — Journalists are blaming the impact of Leveson for a police refusal to confirm the identity of the latest high-profile suspect questioned in relation to the Jimmy Savile child abuse investigation.
Leveson report: No timetable for draft legislation, says government
Leveson report: No timetable for draft legislation, says government
Discussion: Channel 4 and Virgin Media …
Gary Gibbon / Channel 4: What press will the unborn royal grow up under?
John McAfee / Who is McAfee?:
Another Apology. — I openly apologize to Vice Magazine for manipulating their recently published photo. I have been ferocioously put my place by Mr. Rocco for "interfering" with the objectivity of their reporting. I, for my own safety, manipulated the xif data on the image taken from my cellphone …
Discussion: Gawker, Betabeat, SocialTimes, Daily Dot, Naked Security and The Next Web
Adrian Chen / Gawker: Did Vice Magazine Accidentally Reveal The Location of Fugitive Anti-Virus Pioneer John McAfee?
Jessica Roy / Betabeat: John McAfee Is in Guatemala, Suckers
Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot: John McAfee is either in Guatemala or completely lying
Graham Cluley / Naked Security: Fugitive John McAfee's location revealed by photo meta-data screw-up
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: In fresh twist, John McAfee now claims he falsified the metadata of the photo that placed him in Guatemala
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpointing him to a location in Guatemala
Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpointing him to a location in Guatemala
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: Vice Magazine Just Accidentally Revealed Where John McAfee Is Hiding (Updated)
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Hackers Behind Tumblr Worm Say They Warned Tumblr of Vulnerability Weeks Ago — Tumblr has been flooded by a worm that's spamming thousands of user's feeds with an anti-Tumblr rant. In an interview, a spokesman for the group that's apparently behind the hack claims they warned Tumblr weeks ago …
Discussion: The Next Web, Adweek, BuzzFeed, Naked Security, CNNMoney.com, Daily Dot, Business Insider, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Engadget, SocialTimes, CNET, TechCrunch and Softpedia News
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: A worm is hijacking Tumblr blogs and posting spam, said to affect thousands of accounts (Update: Fixed)
Christopher Heine / Adweek: Four Brands Hurt By Racist Tumblr Hack
Graham Cluley / Naked Security: How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly
Adrian Covert / CNNMoney.com: Tumblr falls victim to Internet trolls
Kevin Morris / Daily Dot: Trolls hack Tumblr: "Never expected it to get this big"
Dylan Love / Business Insider: Some Tumblr Blogs Have Been Hacked
Leslie Horn / Gizmodo: Tumblr's Getting Massively Hacked Right Now (But There's an Easy Fix) (Update: All Clear!)
Ben Gilbert / Engadget: Hacker group rewriting Tumblr pages into a racist, anti-gay screed (update: Tumblr says it's fixed)
Devon Glenn / SocialTimes: Hackers Launch Attack on Tumblr, My Little Pony
Shara Tibken / CNET: Massive worm hits Tumblr, spams big blogs like USA Today
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: "Dearest Tumblr User" Worm Spreading Spam on Tumblr, Seen It? Then Log Out Of Your Browser [UPDATED]
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Hackers claim 8,600 accounts infected in major Tumblr compromise (update: Tumblr responds)
Hackers claim 8,600 accounts infected in major Tumblr compromise (update: Tumblr responds)
Discussion: VentureBeat and Gawker
Adrian Chen / Gawker: Vicious Anti-Tumblr Worm Takes Over Tumblr
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
The Heiress — On Saturday, July 2, 2011, a high-society traffic jam descended on the cobblestoned town square of Burford, a village sixty-eight miles northwest of London, not far from the market town of Chipping Norton. Hundreds of chauffeured cars approached a gated stone wall …
Rupert Murdoch / Crikey: Murdoch on News split: 'we aren't finished achieving what others deem impossible'
Tom Harper / @tomjharper: New Yorker - Elisabeth Murdoch: behaviour of Rebekah Brooks is a "reflection of corrupted journalistic values" (!) http://nyr.kr/Voak1b
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: The former Times editor has a sense of humour but does he have the chops for a business …
Lucia Moses / Adweek: High-Level Changes at News Corp.
@tmnheadlines: "She loves her father. But she's the wrong sex." Ken Auletta on Elisabeth Murdoch. #longreads http://tmne.ws/2ZX0p8
TJ Raphael / Folio: News Corp. Eliminates The Daily
@janinegibson: Have realised that all the really good stuff in here is about Matthew, not Lis. http://nyr.kr/Rvky2d
Erik Gruenwedel / Home Media Magazine: News Corp. Renames Film, TV, Media 'Fox Group'
Louisa Lim / @limlouisa: Rebekah Brooks wrote Rupert Murdoch's speech at his daughter's wedding. That's how close they were. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/ 2012/12/10/121210fa_fact_auletta?curren tPage= all ...
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: Dow Jones Promotes Gerard Baker, Robert Thomson to Lead New Publishing Unit
Carl Marcucci / Radio & Television Business Report: News Corp. unveils separation details
Tom Mockridge quit News Corp after major Murdoch shake-up left him with a role 'he didn't want' — Tom Mockridge resigned as chief executive of News International, publisher of The Times and the Sun, because a major management shake-up at Rupert Murdoch's media empire has left him with a role he does not want.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Gerard Baker Named Wall Street Journal Editor; Robert Thomson CEO Of News Corp. Publishing Company
Gerard Baker Named Wall Street Journal Editor; Robert Thomson CEO Of News Corp. Publishing Company
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Names Journal's Top Editor to Run Spin-Off
George Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp.'s Entertainment Business to Be Called Fox Group After Company Split
News Corp.'s Entertainment Business to Be Called Fox Group After Company Split
Discussion: Deadline.com
BSkyB's Mike Darcey appointed News International chief
BSkyB's Mike Darcey appointed News International chief
Discussion: Guardian, Media News, Media Week, The Wrap and Telegraph
European Journalism Centre / Media News: News International CEO Mockridge to step down at year-end
Sarah Shearman / Media Week: News Int chief Tom Mockridge resigns
Todd Cunningham / The Wrap: Tom Mockridge, News International CEO, Steps Down After Being Passed Over
Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: News Corp to split as top executive Tom Mockridge goes
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CNN set to launch syndicated Latino programming — The news network aims to woo bilingual speakers — and ad dollars — with its Spanish-language lifestyle block tailored to broadcast stations. It'll be competing directly with Univision and rivals.
Discussion: TVNewser and The Huffington Post
Alex Weprin / TVNewser: CNN To Sell Spanish-Language Programming To Broadcasters
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post: CNN's New Plan To Attract Latino Viewers


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Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
Augustus de Morgan
The 178th day of the year; 178 = 2 x 89. Note that 2 and 89 are the smallest and the largest Mersenne prime exponents under 100. *Prime Curios
432 B.C. Meton observed the summer solstice and began his cycle. Meton was one of the first Greek astronomers to make accurate astronomical observations. It is widely believed that, working with Euctemon, he observed the summer solstice, which marked the Athenian New Year, in 432 BC.
The Metonic cycle appears in the oldest known astronomical device, the Antikythera Mechanism (2nd century BC) together with its multiple the Callippus cycle of 76 years.
The foundations of Meton's observatory in Athens are still visible just behind the podium of the Pnyx, the ancient parliament. Meton found the dates of equinoxes and solstices by observing sunrise from his observatory. The bisectrice of the observatory lies in an easterly direction, between the Acropolis and the Lycabetus hill.*Wik
1739 "Heavens!, Maupertuis is a flea. Is he ever in one place?" So wrote Francoise de Graffigny to a friend about the French mathematician/man of letters, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Graffigny affectionately gave the nickname to describe his "frenetic ubiquity." *Mary Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth.
In 1847, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires. This enabled the New York newspapers to receive foreign news brought by Cunard's steamers to the Boston port about 190 miles away. When the Cambria next arrived in Boston, three New York Newspapers on 18 Jul 1846 carried identical brief first-day telegraphic summaries of the Cambia's news*. This telegraph link opened three years after the first U.S. telegraph line was opened on 24 May 1844 with a message sent by Samuel Morse 80 miles from Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Md.*TIS
1908 The academy of sciences of Gottingen announced a prize of one hundred thousand marks, according to the will of Dr. Paul Wolfskehl, of Darmstadt, for the proof of Fermat's great theorem. A German industrialist and amateur mathematician, Wolfskehl bequeathed 100,000 marks to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences to be offered as a prize for a complete proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. On 27 June 1908, the Academy published nine rules for awarding the prize. Among other things, these rules required that the proof be published in a peer-reviewed journal; the prize would not be awarded for two years after the publication; and that no prize would be given after 13 September 2007, roughly a century after the competition was begun. Wiles collected the Wolfskehl prize money, then worth $50,000, on 27 June 1997.
Prior to Wiles' proof, thousands of incorrect proofs were submitted to the Wolfskehl committee, amounting to roughly 10 feet (3 meters) of correspondence. In the first year alone (1907–1908), 621 attempted proofs were submitted, although by the 1970s, the rate of submission had decreased to roughly 3–4 attempted proofs per month. According to F. Schlichting, a Wolfskehl reviewer, most of the proofs were based on elementary methods taught in schools, and often submitted by "people with a technical education but a failed career". In the words of mathematical historian Howard Eves, "Fermat's Last Theorem has the peculiar distinction of being the mathematical problem for which the greatest number of incorrect proofs have been published."*Wik
1967 The first ATM in England that was put into use was by Barclays Bank in Enfield Town in North London, United Kingdom, on 27 June 1967. This machine was the first in the UK and was used by English comedy actor Reg Varney, at the time so as to ensure maximum publicity for the machines that were to become mainstream in the UK. This instance of the invention has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of printing firm De La Rue, who was awarded an OBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours List. His design used special cheques that were matched with a personal identification number, as plastic bank cards had not yet been invented. *Wik (The plaque posted at the sight makes the claim to be the first cash machine in the world, but cash dispensing machines had been installed in Tokyo and another shortly after in Upsalla.)
1977 Italy issued a postage stamp honoring Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446). [Scott #1266]. *VFR
1980 Creighton Carvello recited 20,013 digits of π from memory in nine hours and one minute. *VFR
1806 Augustus de Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) born in Madura (now Madurai), India, son of a colonel in the Indian Army. He is best known for his work in Formal Logic. "De Morgan's Laws", are contained in his first book (1847), although they were known to Peter of Spain in the fourteenth century. *VFR
The rules can be expressed in English as:
"The negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations." and*Wik
"The negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations."
When he defined and introduced the term "mathematical induction" (1838), he gave the process a rigorous basis and clarity that it had previously lacked. He originated the use of the slash to represent fractions, as in 1/5 or 3/7. In Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849) he gave a geometric interpretation of complex numbers. *TIS A nice blog about De Morgan's life and relationships is at The Renaissance Mathematicus.
1850 Jorgen Pedersen Gram.(June 27, 1850 – April 29, 1916) Danish mathematician. Today he is best known for his criterion of linear independence of functions. The Gram-Schmidt Orthonormal Basis Theorem in Linear Algebra was first published by him in 1883.
1940 Daniel G. Quillen bon in Orange, New Jersey. In 1978 he won a Fields Medal as the "prime architect of the higher algebraic K-theory, a new tool that successfully employed geometric and topological methods and ideas to formulate and solve major problems in algebra, particu¬larly ring theory and module theory." *VFR French mathematician who is known for her work in number theory and contributions to the applied mathematics of acoustics and elasticity. Germain was self-taught from books, and from lecture notes supplied by male friends attending the Ecole Polytechnique which she, as a woman, was not permitted to attend. Using a male pseudonym, M. LeBlanc, she corresponded with Lagrange who recognised her skill, and subsequently sponsored her work. She accomplished a limited proof of Fermat's last theorem, for any prime under 100 where certain conditions were met. In 1816, she won a prize sponsored by Napoleon for a mathematical explanation of Chladni figures, the vibration of elastic plates. She died at age 55, from breast cancer. TIS
1931 Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman (born June 27, 1931 in Waalwijk) is a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics with his former student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory. In 1963/64, during an extended stay at SLAC he designed the computer program Schoonschip for symbolic manipulation of mathematical equations, which is now considered the very first Computer algebra system. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1999 together with 't Hooft, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics". Veltman is now retired and holds a position of Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan. Asteroid 9492 Veltman is named in his honor. *Wik
1831 Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831)died before she could receive the honorary doctorate Gauss had persuaded the University of Gottingen to give her. *VFR
1880 Carl Borchardt (22 February 1817 – 27 June 1880) was a German mathematician who worked in a variety of areas in analysis. He edited Crelle's Journal for more than 30 years.*SAU
1952 Max Dehn died (November 13, 1878 – June 27, 1952). He solved Hilbert's third problem in 1900 (shortly after receiving his Ph.D. un¬der Hilbert on another topic in the foundations of geometry): a tetrahedron cannot be cut up into finitely many pieces and reassembled into a cube of equal volume. Thus Dehn became the first mathematician to join "the honors class" of mathematicians who had solved one of the twenty-three problems Hilbert posed in Paris in 1900.
1975 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this (the 20th) century". His final research paper was published in 1969, when he was 83. In it he resumed his interest in electrical activity in thunderstorms, as jets of conducting liquid motivated by electrical fields. The cone from which such jets are observed is called the Taylor cone for his namesake. In the same year Taylor was appointed to the Order of Merit. He suffered a stroke in 1972 which effectively put an end to his work; he died in Cambridge in 1975.*Wik
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*CHM=Computer History Museum
*FFF=Kane, Famous First Facts
*NSEC= NASA Solar Eclipse Calendar
*RMAT= The Renaissance Mathematicus, Thony Christie
*SAU=St Andrews Univ. Math History
*TIA = Today in Astronomy
*TIS= Today in Science History
*VFR = V Frederick Rickey, USMA
*Wik = Wikipedia
*WM = Women of Mathematics, Grinstein & Campbell


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Glossaries of Economic Terms in Experimental Economics
Behavioural Finance brings together a range of resources around the topic of behavioural finance including an introductory paper with an extensive bibliography (updated in April 2010), a brief history of the subject and links to key people, departments and publications in the area. It also features a glossary of terms from adaptive attitudes to the winners curse, that includes brief definitions and links to key papers on individual topics.
Sonderforschungsbereich 504 is an interdisciplinary research group combining economists with social psychologists. This glossary provides well-written short articles in English on the basic concepts of economics and econometrics, as well as the psychology of decision making and social judgement. Covers most of the 'heuristics and biases' causing deviations from rational choice, e.g. availability, representativeness, risk aversion, anchoring-and-adjustment. Also covers behavioural finance, game theory, experimental economics, auction theory; and applications to life-cycle savings decisions.
EconPort is a digital library funded by the USA's National Science Foundation. Their glossary takes content from the econterms.org glossary by Peter Meyer and the Sonderforschungsbereich 504 glossary developed at the University of Mannheim. It covers microeconomics, experimental economics and econometrics.


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Mike Hettwer is an instrumental music specialist for the North Santiam School District and teaches private horn instruction in Salem as well as applied horn for Willamette University, Corban College, and Linfield College. Mike is frequently called upon as a brass clinician and adjudicator and performs principal horn with the Portland Opera, Salem Chamber Orchestra and Linfield Chamber Orchestra.
Michael is also an active chamber musician. He has performed with the Columbia Brass, Pioneer Brass, and is currently an active member of the Willamette University Chamber Players, Festive Brass, the Oregon Brass Ensemble, the Northwest Horn Orchestra and the Bridgeport Horn Trio. Other active engagements include performances with the Peter Britt Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Oregon Coast Festival, Oregon Symphony and the Eugene Symphony orchestras. He is in demand in the Portland area as a freelance horn player performing with many big name acts as well as multiple Broadway show runs.
Michael has received his B.M. in French Horn Performance and his M.A.T. from Willamette University. Michael lives in Salem with his wife Kami, a music educator in Salem, and together they have three children, Matthew, Joshua and Jenessa.


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Jason Glass to lead Eagle County School District
EAGLE – A former Eagle County educator is returning to lead the Eagle County school district.
The school board voted unanimously to offer Jason Glass the superintendent position during Wednesday's meeting.
Glass will replace Sandra Smyser, the current Colorado Superintendent of the Year. She's leaving to be superintendent of the Poudre School District in Fort Collins.
Glass is Iowa's State Director of Education, serving as the state's chief state school officer. He was the human resources director for the Eagle County school district.
"I am thrilled to have been selected to lead Eagle County Schools," Glass said. "I look forward to connecting with the wonderful communities in the valley and to working with the incredible and talented Eagle County Schools employees in continuing to deliver a great education for Eagle County kids."
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Board members said Glass's familiarity with the local school district and vision for the future of education helped him top the other two candidates — Karen Brofft, assistant superintendent, Englewood school district, and Donald Johnson, superintendent, Middleton-Cross Plains Area Schools in Wisconsin.
"We were fortunate to have three excellent candidates," said school board member T.J. Johnson.
The final terms of Glass's contract are still to be determined. The job was advertised as paying $175,000. They've set a target of July 1 for Glass to start.
The Colorado Association of School Boards helped coordinate the search.
"This was a very comprehensive process," said school board president, Jeanne McQueeney. "The national reputation of our district attracted great candidates from many states, making for a difficult selection."
The school board received applications from 24 candidates, half from outside Colorado, said school board president Jeanne McQueeney. They quickly narrowed it to 12 semi-finalists.
"Then it got hard," McQueeney said.
The three candidates were put through a battery of interviews with the school board, then on May 16 with two citizens committees with 10 members each. After all that the three were put into various social situations.
The board was looking for someone to help the district stay on its path of student achievement, McQueeney said. While all the candidates could have done so, the board picked Glass.
Glass left Eagle County to take a position as the senior director of human capital strategy with Battelle for Kids, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving America's schools. With Battelle, he worked to help school districts and state departments of education across the country.
In Eagle County, Glass also worked as the local school district's director of research and assessment and helped create the district's performance-pay program.
Glass held several posts with the Colorado Department of Education, and worked as a university instructor and high school teacher in Kentucky.
He earned his bachelor's in political science, an M.Ed. in education and a master's in political science from the University of Kentucky. He earned a Ph.D. in education from Seton Hall University.
Glass currently lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with his wife, Sarah, and children, Norah and Chase.
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When designers Holly Zickler and her husband, David Rifkind, built their home in South Miami in 2011, the couple envisioned it as "a laboratory for socially and ecologically sustainable construction and planning in South Florida," Rifkind says. With a much smaller resource-consumption footprint than almost any other building in the region, the 2,725-square-foot, single-story contemporary home is built mostly of recycled materials, and features a 5-kilowatt photovoltaic system that meets about 75 percent of the structure's energy demands. But the idea of a net-zero-energy home—one that produces as much energy via renewable sources as it consumes from the grid—was not on their radar.
"This was our first attempt at sustainable design, and net zero wasn't yet a part of our thinking," says Rifkind, a professor of architecture at Florida International University. "We're thinking of expanding our photovoltaic array to generate more power than we consume, however, since we now see net zero as an important goal."
While zero net energy (ZNE) homes aren't yet saturating the marketplace, they are on the way to becoming more common, thanks to progressive industry leaders and policymakers who have seized opportunities to reduce carbon emissions while reaping substantial economic rewards.
"State and local governments can't look to Washington for help," says Architecture 2030 executive director Edward Mazria, FAIA. "They need jobs, economic activity, and tax revenue now. ZNE legislation provides all three, with large returns on a modest investment."
The new Colorado Energy Saving Mortgage Program, for instance, makes home buyers who are purchasing new or renovated ZNE homes eligible for an $8,000 reduction on financing the total cost of their mortgage. In New York, the Zero Net Energy Tax Credit Bill introduced to the State Assembly would offer considerable income tax incentives to home buyers who purchase a new or renovated net-zero home. And in New Mexico, the Sustainability Building Tax Credit, which provides personal and corporate income tax credits for both new and renovated high-performance commercial and residential buildings, was recently extended to 2016.
The architecture and design community at large also must embrace the shift towards ZNE, according to Passive House architect David Peabody, of Alexandria, Va.–based Peabody Architects. "What got me serious about high-performance design was when I realized that architects cannot sit on the fence on this issue when buildings are responsible for more than 45 percent of this nation's carbon footprint, and residential architecture is responsible for more than 20 percent [of that]," he says. "We in the building profession are, then, either part of the solution or part of the problem, as the saying goes," Peabody adds. "And if you see climate change as an intergenerational moral and ethical issue, indeed as an existential issue, then you have no choice but to address energy in a substantive way: true energy performance standards and true net zero—not gaming various green-building point systems."
Rifkind adds, "A number of other factors—embodied energy, transportation, and water use, to name a few—are also crucial." And Peabody agrees. "A commitment to build net-zero houses from now on will not reverse climate change," he says. "It must be part of a whole panoply of changes that both reduce energy demand and replace fossil fuels. But getting to net zero is certainly a cornerstone of that effort."
And that's why Zickler and Rifkind's home features a steel frame and prefabricated exterior panels, which consume just one-seventh of the energy needed to fabricate and erect a conventional concrete-block home in the area. The panels and steel frame are also known for their durability and resistance to the termite infestation common to the area. The lower embodied energy of the steel comes in part from its high recycled content and accounts for approximately three-quarters of the structural steel and almost all of the light-gauge framing.
The home also uses only electricity, thereby avoiding emissions associated with gas and oil, and it includes both rainwater filtration as well as graywater systems.
"We feel very strongly that every building and landscape provides an opportunity to stem the effects of climate change," Zickler says. "Living 10 feet above sea level, along a hurricane-prone coast, has really sharpened our focus."
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WASHINGTON ― Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and onetime business associate Rick Gates were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and money laundering in connection with an intensifying investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Manafort left his Virginia condo and, with his attorney, walked into the FBI field office in Washington early Monday. A 12-count federal grand jury indictment unsealed shortly after his surrender includes charges of conspiracy against the U.S., conspiracy to launder money, failure to file foreign bank reports and false statements.
Manafort and Gates both pleaded not guilty to the charges in federal court.
Separately, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about Russian "dirt" he was offered on Hillary Clinton, according to a plea deal prosecutors unsealed Monday. George Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 and has been cooperating in the Russia probe.
The charges are the first in the probe led by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director. Monday's arrests come three days after news broke that a federal grand jury in Washington had filed charges stemming from Mueller's investigation.
"Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work," the indictment says. "In order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 through at least 2016, Manafort and Gates laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts."
Failing to pay taxes allowed Manafort a "lavish lifestyle in the United States," according to the indictment, which alleges he "spent millions of dollars on luxury goods and services for himself and his extended family through payments wired from offshore nominee accounts to United States vendors."
Manafort laundered more than $18 million, which he used to buy property, goods and services in the U.S., the indictment alleges. He's accused of spending $849,215 at one clothing store, $520,440 at another clothing store, about $934,000 at an antique rug store, $62,750 for a Mercedes Benz, and $47,000 for a Range Rover.
Reports have suggested federal investigators could use criminal charges as way to pressure those arrested into providing more information about alleged collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and the Kremlin to influence the election. The indictment charging Manafort and Gates makes no mention of Trump or the election.
Trump has aggressively denied allegations that his team colluded with Russia to win the election.
A former prosecutor and FBI director, Mueller partnered with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in August to look into Manafort's possible financial crimes, including money laundering.
Manafort ran Trump's presidential campaign from June 2016 until his resignation in August of that year, after reports surfaced about his past lobbying work for pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs. He retroactively registered as a foreign agent and disclosed more than $17 million in payments for his firm's consulting work in Ukraine, which occurred before he joined Trump's campaign.
"You can get rid of Manafort," said Robby Mook, who was the campaign manager for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, "but that doesn't end the odd bromance Trump has with [the Russian President]."
Manafort met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators in July to discuss a meeting between Trump associates and a Russian lawyer that was held during the election campaign to obtain dirt on Clinton. The next day, FBI agents seized documents and other items from Manafort's house in Virginia without warning.
Investigators have also issued subpoenas seeking testimony from a number of people linked to Manafort throughout the probe.
Trump described the pre-dawn raid of Manafort's home as "pretty tough stuff."
"I've always found Paul Manafort to be a very decent man," the president said at the time. "He's like a lot of other people, probably makes consultant fees from all over the place, who knows, I don't know, but I thought it was pretty tough stuff to wake him up, perhaps his family was there."
Trump fired FBI director James Comey, who was leading the agency's investigation into Russian interference in the election, in May. The following week, the Justice Department appointed Mueller as special counsel to oversee the federal inquiry into the Trump campaign's alleged Russian ties.
"Led by some very bad and conflicted people," Trump tweeted in June, the Russia probe is "the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history."
This article has been updated to include not guilty pleas by Manafort and Gates.


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Egypt's military-backed interim government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization Wednesday, intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting its members and tightening the noose on the group's network of charities and businesses.
The unprecedented executive decision likely ends any chance of reconciliation between the government and the 85-year-old Brotherhood, still Egypt's most organized political group. It marks a stunning reversal of fortunes for the long-outlawed organization that saw member Mohammed Morsi reach Egypt's highest office in the country's first democratic election, only to be ousted in a popularly backed military coup in July. And it takes a step that not even autocrat Hosni Mubarak took in his nearly 30-year rule.
Hossam Eissa, deputy prime minister and minister of higher education, read the government's declaration, saying the decision was in response to Tuesday's deadly bombing in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura which killed 16 people and wounded more than 100. It was the deadliest militant bombing since Morsi's ouster and showed growing reach of the country's Islamic insurgency, previously concentrated in the northern Sinai.
Although Eissa and the government offered no proof of the Brotherhood's involvement, the accusation instilled in the public mind the image of the group as being behind the surge in violent attacks.
The Brotherhood has denied being responsible for the Mansoura attack. Earlier Wednesday, an al-Qaida-inspired group called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or the Champions of Jerusalem, said it was behind the suicide bombing to avenge the "shedding of innocent Muslim blood" at the hands of Egypt's "apostate regime" – a reference to the security forces' crackdown on Islamists following the coup.
Brotherhood members dismissed the government label Wednesday, promising their near-daily protests against Morsi's ouster would continue.
"The protests are in the streets despite a law restricting them – and killings and prison sentences. All this has not changed the will of the people," said Ibrahim Elsayed, member of the Brotherhood's political group, the Freedom and Justice Party. "The decision has no value for us and is only worth the paper it is written on."
Another member, Islam Tawfiq, said the Brotherhood is considering whether to challenge the declaration in courts at home or abroad.
"An interim government for nine months will not stymie with terrorism a group working for (nearly) 90 years," Tawfiq said.
Soon after the declaration, however, a state-owned print shop stopped printing the Brotherhood party's newspaper. Tawfiq said it followed oral orders from security agencies to halt publication.
The declaration comes after another sweeping decision Tuesday aimed at draining the Brotherhood's finances by freezing the funds of more than 1,000 non-government organizations with links to the group and putting more than 100 schools run by the group under government supervision. That directly attacks the grassroots strength of the Brotherhood, where it has much of its power in Egyptian life.
Eissa said Wednesday's decision means that those who "participate in the group's activities, in the organization or promotion verbally or by writing or by any other means or financing its activities" will be facing punishment according to the law.
"It's not possible for Egypt the state nor Egypt the people to submit to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism," Eissa said.
He also said that the government had notified other Arab countries about its decision. The Brotherhood has organizations and political parties in other nations in the region. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said a regional agreement for combatting terrorism requires Arab countries to hand over those wanted by Egypt.
Ahmed el-Borai, the minister of social solidarity, told reporters that the decision means that demonstrations by the group will also be banned. He said that members who abandon their membership and withdraw from the group "will be pardoned."
The Brotherhood, founded in 1928, renounced violence in the late 1970s. Since rising to power after Mubarak's ouster, the Brotherhood had faced growing public anger over what critics said was its attempt to monopolize power, enshrine Islamic laws in the country's legislation and allying with some of the country's more radical Islamist groups.
The military-backed government has blamed the group for a surge in violence particularly against security forces after Morsi' ouster, accusing it of seeking to destabilize the country to undermine the new authorities and its political plan to hold elections.
Security forces already have cranked up the pressure on the Brotherhood since July, arresting thousands of its members, including its top leadership, and cracking down on protests that often have turned violent, leaving hundreds killed.
Last week, prosecutors referred Morsi and other top Brotherhood leaders to trial on charges of conspiring with Palestinian group Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iran and other militant groups and orchestrating the Sinai insurgency to avenge his ouster. Morsi supporters and rights groups have called the accusations implausible.
It's not yet clear what steps the government will take following the declaration. Rifaat Laqoushah, a political analyst, called the declaration "procedural" and could be overturned by the courts.
"The government should present strong evidence of the Muslim Brotherhood collaboration in terrorism and present it to courts in order to win a court ruling branding the group as a terrorist one," Laqoushah said.
Brotherhood defense lawyer Mohammed el-Damati said he expected the terrorism branding to have no legal repercussions since the group's members are already tried on terrorism-related charges and had assets seized.
But el-Damati said the decision will have a psychological impact, increasing the public's hostility against the group. Following the Mansoura attack, many local residents attacked properties of Brotherhood in anger.
"These are signs that this is leading to very serious consequences, an introduction to civil strife," he said.
Rights lawyer Taher Abu-ElNasr said it is possible that a campaign of coming arrests would be based only on the basis of membership to the Brotherhood. He described it as an "escalating campaign" from both sides.
"This is a message that there is no room for negotiations," he said.


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Mexican and Colombian groups may soon start battling it out for control of drug trafficking routes in Ecuador, something that could further threaten the country's already precarious security situation.
The drug trade through Ecuador has historically been controlled by Colombia's criminal groups who, until recently, essentially held a monopoly over corridors moving through and out of the country. This is gradually changing however, with Mexican transnational criminal groups interested in moving further down the drug chain to cut out Colombian middlemen. As one anti-narcotics agent told El Comercio, "Colombian cartels no longer have the same power."
Mexican gangs linked to Ecuador's drug trade had traditionally played the role of buyers from Colombian cartels, due to the fact that they didn't have the operational capacity to move their own product from Ecuador northwards, another anti-narcotics official told the newspaper.
However, this Colombian-dominated supply chain endured until some point in 2011, according to El Comercio. Now, intelligence sources suggest that Mexican cartels are trying to take complete control. As El Comercio notes, the arrest of three Mexicans and seizure of their "go-fast" boat off the coast of San Vicente, Manabi in June, underscores how Mexican gangs now have the capacity to transport their own shipments. GPS data obtained from the boat indicated that the boat had left Mexico, stopped in Central America to refuel, before arriving in Ecuador.
This means previous alliances, such as that between the Colombian Rastrojos and Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, could break down as they battle each other for control of departure points and routes.
This is yet to turn into open confrontation. Instead, gangs are seeking to damage their rivals by tipping off Ecuadorean authorities on the locations of cocaine shipments. Between June and September this year, 1.9 tons of cocaine was seized in the coastal province of Manabi. Eighty percent of these seizures were the result of police paying $20,000-$40,000 to gang members for information on their competitor's shipments, a high-ranking police official stated.
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If the disintegration of the relationship between Mexican and Colombian groups in Ecuador is true to the extent El Comercio states, Ecuador could be set for what could be a destabilizing confrontation. The US State Department's 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report estimated that 220 tons of cocaine pass through the country each year. While this figure may be on the high side, it is nonetheless representative of Ecuador's importance as transhipment point and how highly prized it is for cocaine cartels.
Most interesting is the shift in dynamic this would represent. Jay Bergman, Andean regional director for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told InSight Crime that the role of Colombian gangs as wholesalers is well established, with Mexicans typically controlling the trafficking routes. If Mexican groups attempt to move further down the supply chain, Colombian gangs are unlikely to give up their position without a fight.
They may be on the back foot, however, as the Mexican groups have been stepping up their presence in recent years. The capture of nine Sinaloa Cartel operatives last year in Ecuador and discovery of two alleged Mexican narco-planes in the past 12 months – one with 1.5 tons of cocaine on board, the other $4 million – is evidence of this.
The question, therefore, is whether Ecuador is prepared. An internal military report seen by El Comercio earlier this year found that Ecuadorean authorities had vastly underestimated the threat posed to the country by organized crime and that if "adequate measures" were not taken soon, the country could be overwhelmed by gang activity. Since the report, the government announced it would train around 4,000 troops to combat organized crime. This may still be insufficient, however, if Colombian and Mexican groups begin openly fighting.
One dynamic the El Comercio report failed to address is the role of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Ecuador. The guerrillas have a strong presence along the border (see map, right), bringing coca base over from southern Colombia to sell on to Mexican groups. It is unlikely that Mexican cartels would challenge the guerrillas, who are not only heavily armed, but control most of the coca plantations on the Colombian side of the border.
For now, the confrontation is playing out in a clandestine manner. However, Mexican cartels have shown a wish to take greater control of the links further down the drug chain, to further maximize their profits. This may turn Ecuador into a battle ground between some of the most powerful criminal organizations in the hemisphere.


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(a) Commencement of civil action. A civil action is commenced when the summons and complaint are filed with the clerk of court if:
(1) the summons and complaint are served within the statute of limitations in any manner prescribed by law; or
(2) if not served within the statute of limitations, actual service must be accomplished not later than one hundred twenty days after filing.
(b) Filing In Forma Pauperis.
(1) Except as provided in (2) below, a plaintiff who desires to file an action in forma pauperis shall file in the court a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis, together with the complaint proposed to be filed and an affidavit showing the plaintiff's inability to pay the fee required to file the action. If the motion is granted, the plaintiff may proceed without further application and file the complaint in the court without payment of filing fees.
(2) Where a party is represented in a civil action by an attorney working on behalf of or under the auspices of a legal aid society or a legal services or other nonprofit organization funded in whole or substantial part by funds appropriated by the United States Government or the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, which has as its primary purpose the furnishing of legal services to indigent persons, or the South Carolina Bar Pro Bono Program, fees related to the filing of the action shall be waived without the necessity of a motion and court approval. Before the filing fees will be waived, the attorney representing the party must file with the clerk a written certification that representation is being provided on behalf of or under the auspices of the society, organization or program, and that the party is unable to pay the filing fees.
This amendment rewrote subsection (a), deleted subsection (b), and renumbered subsection (c) as subsection (b). These changes are intended to reflect the legislative intent expressed in § 15-3-20 as amended by 2002 S.C. Act No. 281, § 1.
This amendment added the language of (b)(2) which allows for the waiver of the filing fees for an action when a party is represented by an attorney working on behalf of or under the auspices of a legal aid society, a legal services or other nonprofit organization, or the South Carolina Pro Bono Program.