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We've seen this movie: the one where a big company takes over a whole market ecosystem. There was IBM with mainframes, Microsoft with operating systems, Apple with pocket music players (and now apps for phones and tablets).
But there's another movie too. That's the one where the big company fails. IBM did that with PCs. (They started the ball rolling, but no longer even make the things.) Apple did it with PDAs, when the Newton flopped. And Microsoft, even in its glory days, failed at a lot of things.
One big one was directories. All but lost in the sands of time is Netscape's lone victory over a Microsoft move to make everybody in the world use Active Directory. That story was told by Craig Burton in an Interview I did for the late Websmith (later merged into Linux Journal) fourteen years ago this month.
Another was identity, and single sign-on. Microsoft tried that with Hailstorm, and flopped.
And now comes Facebook with social graphs, which Barrett Sheridan calls a Play to Take Over the Entire Internet, and Mark Zuckerberg (two links back) says is the "next version of Facebook Platform," which he says "puts people at the center of the web."
Right. Sez Mark,
We think that the future of the web will be filled with personalized experiences. We've worked with three pre-selected partners—Microsoft Docs, Yelp and Pandora—to give you a glimpse of this future, which you can access without having to login again or click to connect. For example, now if you're logged into Facebook and go to Pandora for the first time, it can immediately start playing songs from bands you've liked across the web. And as you're playing music, it can show you friends who also like the same songs as you, and then you can click to see other music they like.
We look forward to a future where all experiences are this easy and personalized, and we're happy today to take the next important step to get there.
Of course, then we no longer have the Web. We have the Union of Soviet Social Graph Vendors.
This will fail, of course. Commercial containers for the Web (social or otherwise) are limited. They have rules. They are the Great Indoors, which can neither control nor compete with the Great Outdoors which is the Web itself.
But discovering this plain fact will take some time. Or, more to the point, waste it. The hard way.
As usual, Dave Winer nails the diagnostics, with Will this loop ever end? Sez Dave,
Facebook is hot now, but history has shown that being a hotbed doesn't scale. That eventually these companies have to tap into the general talent pool and they end up achieving the same level of mediocrity as the previous dominant one. It happened to IBM, the minicomputer companies, IBM again, Microsoft, now it's Google's turn, and soon it will be Facebook's.
Let's go back to Microsoft and Hailstorm. It's important to remember the hysteria surrounding that move. Many thought that this was The End. Here is what I wrote at the time on my blog. I just copied and pasted the html below (from Google's cache, while the archive was offline… somehow the bold-faced search terms give it a little extra punch, so I'm leaving them in)…
Trojan Storm
The storm has arrived, and the peerage is weighing in with its reactions.
When I first read about Hailstorm, it scared the shit out of me. (As it also did to Joel Spolsky, who gives us a fine tech-level explanation of exactly why.)
But at a deeper level — the social level where the Net connects us — I have complete faith in forces more powerful than any monopoly's wet dream. And that's the Net.
The Net is ours. Not Microsoft's. Hailstorm is heavy weather, but the Net is geology. Our geology. It's us, not just me (pun intended).
Computing isn't personal any more. It's social. Microsoft understands that, but it's not where they come from. Where they come from is the desktop. Always have, always will. It's not for nothing they're called Microsoft.
With Hailstorm, Microsoft is doing a beautiful job of being itself. As always, they're draping users in bountiful benefits, whether those users want them or not). That's just what Microsoft does. They can't help it. They come from the desktop, just like Apple comes from art and Nordstrom comes from shoes.
And they sound very convincing, because they're busy advocating the user. You can't go wrong there, can you?
O yeah. You always go wrong when you characterize competent human beings as weak and helpless — and then tell them your stuff is their only hope. That's exactly what Microsoft does in the very first line of Building the User-centric Experience:
Users are definitely not in control of the technology that surrounds them. Asked to adapt to the differences between the way they interact with local programs and sites on the web, asked to cope with doing things completely differently on their cell phone, their PC, and any other device they have, users are generally frustrated and confused.
Like moths in a lampshade. How sad. And whose fault is that?
If you want to enter a friend's new phone number into your PC, you use a keyboard and a piece of software like Microsoft Outlook to do it using a particular sequence of keystrokes and mouse clicks. But to enter that same information into your Palm Pilot, you need to learn a completely new interface – right down to relearning how to draw the letters of the alphabet!
Oh! It's Palm's fault! That OS is so hard to use. Not easy like Outlook, which is so encrusted with options that few users ever figure the damn thing out. (To say the least of it.) The insults continue:
This environment, in which users are forced to adapt to technology instead of technology adapting to users, creates significant restrictions on how effective any application or Web site can be, and ultimately hinders the acceptance and adoption of not only the technologies themselves, but also the real-world products and services that might be best offered to a user in the context of the things they do online.
The environment we're talking about here is called a market. Yes, it's messy. Yes, it's full of choices that don't agree with each other. But it's the natural habitat for business. It's also networked to the gills. That network is where users live. Not just Windows. Not just .Net, whatever it becomes.
The Trojan Storm here isn't Windows or even .Net. It's Internet Explorer.
The Net is ours, indeed. But most of us interact with it through a Microsoft browser. That browser is about to get a lot fatter. That's the only way to interpret this:
HailStorm services are oriented around people, instead of around a specific device, application, service, or network. They put the user in control of their own data and information, protecting personal information and making user consent the basis for who can access it, what they can do with it, and for how long they have that permission.
It's time for us to stop acting like an audience and start acting like a market. For that we need to do three things:
- Work with the hackers to make Mozilla the best possible alternative to Internet Explorer — and fast.
- Start paying more attention and respect to other developers who are working together to make the Net something that works better for all of us (and that includes interested developers inside Microsoft — it's a big company).
- Expose Hailstorm for what it is: yet another attempt by Microsoft to collapse the Net into its own service framework. And to say this won't work because the Net's context is bigger than any vendor, no matter how privileged they are with "critical mass."
It's important to remember that this is not just about Microsoft's napoleonic corporate personality, which is equally real and beside the point, making it the biggest red herring in business history.
It's about building out the Net's infrastructure. .Net doesn't do it. Hailstorm doesn't do it. Java doesn't do it. No "solution" controlled by one vendor will do it.
You can't privatize what only works because it's public. Microsoft hasn't learned that lesson yet. Let's help them.
And we did. Mozilla succeeded, and so have other browsers. Identity still isn't a solved problem and may never be — at least not in the simple way one gets when the Eye of Sauron rules the world. But the very fact that good people are working on identity and related problems out in the open is endlessly encouraging.
Speaking of which, the 10th Internet Identity Workshop is happening in Mountain View next month. Micrtosoft is a sponsor, as are many other companies and organizations, some of which (Information Card Foundation, Open ID Foundation) grew directly or indirectly out of IIW conversations. In fact, Microsoft's good identity work (started by Kim Cameron and colleagues there) would not have happened without Hailstorm's failure.
If Facebook and Twitter are smart (and listen to their elders), they'll skip the loop. Burn the movie. Get Net- and Web-compliant. Because that's where nature will takes us in the long run anyway. Let's not keep making that run longer than it needs to be.


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1) Basic Income will help us rethink how & why we work
A basic income can help you do other work and reconsider old choices: It will enable you to retrain, safe in the knowledge that you'll have enough money to maintain a decent standard of living while you do. It will therefore help each of us to decide what it is we truly want to do.
2) Basic Income will contribute to better working conditions
With the insurance of having unconditional basic income as a safety net, workers can challenge their employers if they find their conditions of work unfair or degrading.
3) Basic Income will downsize bureaucracy
Because a basic income scheme is one of the most simple tax / benefits models, it will reduce all the bureaucracy surrounding the welfare state thus making it less complex and costly, while being fairer and more emancipatory.
4) Basic income will make benefit fraud obsolete
As an extension of (3), benefit fraud will vanish as a possibility because no one needs to commit fraud to get a basic income: it is granted automatically. Moreover, an unconditional basic income will fix the threshold and poverty trap effects induced by the current means-tested schemes.
5) Basic income will help reducing inequalities
A basic income is also a means for sharing out the wealth produced by a society to all people thereby reducing the growing inequalities across the world.
6) It will provide a more secure and substantial safety net for all people
Most existing means-tested anti-poverty schemes exclude people because of their complexity, or because people don't even know how to apply or whether they qualify. With a basic income, people currently excluded from benefit allowances will automatically have their rights guaranteed.
7) Basic Income will contribute to less working hours and better distribution of jobs
With a basic income, people will have the option to reduce their working hours without sacrificing their income. They will therefore be able to spend more time doing other things they find meaningful. At the macroeconomic level, this will induce a better distribution of jobs because people reducing their hours will increase the jobs opportunities for those currently excluded from the labor market.
8) Basic Income will reward unpaid contributions
A huge number of unpaid activities are currently not recognized as economic contributions. Yet, our economy increasingly relies on these free contributions (think about wikipedia as well as the work parents do). A Basic Income would recognise and reward theses activities.
9) Basic Income will strengthen our Democracy
With a minimum level of security guaranteed to all citizens and less time in work or worrying about work, innovation in political, social, economic and technological terms would be a made more lively part of everyday life and its concerns.
10) Basic Income is a fair redistribution of technological advancement
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11) Basic Income will end extreme financial poverty
Because we live in a world where we have the means (and one hopes, the will) to end the kinds of suffering we see as a supposedly constant feature of our surroundings. Basic income is a way to join together the means and the will.
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Venus will reach its greatest separation from the Sun in its 2014 morning apparition. It will be shining brightly at mag -4.4.
From Seattle , this apparition will not be one of the most prominent and tricky to observe, reaching a peak altitude of 18° above the horizon at sunrise on 12 Feb 2014.
2014 morning apparition of Venus
|11 Jan 2014
|Venus at inferior solar conjunction
|11 Feb 2014
|Venus at greatest brightness
|11 Feb 2014
|Venus at highest altitude in morning sky
|23 Mar 2014
|Venus at greatest elongation west
|23 Mar 2014
|Venus at dichotomy
|25 Oct 2014
|Venus at superior solar conjunction
A graph of the angular separation of Venus from the Sun around the time of greatest elongation is available here.
Apparitions of Venus
|26 Mar 2012
|Evening apparition
|15 Aug 2012
|Morning apparition
|31 Oct 2013
|Evening apparition
|23 Mar 2014
|Morning apparition
|06 Jun 2015
|Evening apparition
|26 Oct 2015
|Morning apparition
|12 Jan 2017
|Evening apparition
Observing Venus
Venus's orbit lies closer to the Sun than the Earth's, meaning it always appears close to the Sun and is lost in the Sun's glare much of the time.
It is observable for a few months each time it reaches greatest separation from the Sun – moments referred to as greatest elongation.
On these occasions, Venus is so bright and conspicuous that it becomes the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. It is often called the morning star or the evening star.
These apparitions repeat roughly once every 1.6 years, taking place alternately in the morning and evening skies, depending whether Venus lies to the east of the Sun or to the west.
When it lies to the east, it rises and sets a short time after the Sun and is visible in early evening twilight. When it lies to the west of the Sun, it rises and sets a short time before the Sun and is visible shortly before sunrise.
At each apparition, Venus reaches a maximum separation from the Sun of around 48°. However, some times of the year are more favourable for viewing Venus than others. From Seattle, it reaches a peak altitude of between 18° and 42° above the horizon at sunrise during each morning apparition, depending on the time of year. During its 2014 apparition, it will peak at 18° above the horizon at sunrise on 12 Feb 2014.
This variability over the course of the year is due to the inclination of the ecliptic to the horizon.
The inclination of the ecliptic to the horizon
At all times, Venus lies close to a line across the sky called the ecliptic, which is shown in yellow in the planetarium above. This line traces the path that the Sun takes through the zodiacal constellations every year, and shows the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Since all the planets circle the Sun in almost exactly the same plane, it also closely follows the planes of the orbits of the other planets, too.
When Venus is widely separated from the Sun, it is separated from it along the line of the ecliptic. But, at different times of year, the ecliptic meets the horizon at different angles at sunrise. This means that Venus appears at different altitudes above the horizon at different times of year, even if its separation from the Sun is the same.
If the ecliptic meets the horizon at a shallow angle, then Venus has to be very widely separated from the Sun to appear much above the horizon. Conversely, if the ecliptic is almost perpendicular to the horizon, Venus may appear much higher in the sky, even if it is actually much closer to the Sun.
At sunset, the ecliptic makes its steepest angle to the horizon at the spring equinox – in March in the northern hemisphere, and in September in the southern hemisphere. Conversely, it meets the horizon at its shallowest angle at the autumn equinox. Because the seasons are opposite in the northern and southern hemispheres, a good apparition of Venus in one hemisphere will usually be poorly placed in the other.
At sunrise, these dates are also inverted, so that for morning apparitions of Venus, the ecliptic makes its steepest angle to the horizon at the autumn equinox, and its shallowest angle to the horizon at the spring equinox.
The optimum time for an apparition of Venus
For this reason, the day when Venus reaches its widest separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is not necessarily the same day when it appears highest in the sky at sunrise. Venus typically appears highest in the sky a few days or weeks closer to the autumn equinox than the moment of greatest elongation.
The inclination of the ecliptic plane to the horizon at Seattle varies between 65° (sunrise at the autumn equinox) and 18° (sunrise at the spring equinox). On March 23, the ecliptic is inclined at 19° to the eastern dawn horizon, as shown by the yellow line in the planetarium above, meaning that this apparition of Venus will not be one of the most prominent and tricky to observe, reaching a peak altitude of 18° above the horizon at sunrise.
Venus's position
The position of Venus when it reaches greatest elongation will be:
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The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky on 30 Sep 2023
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The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
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|23 Mar 2014
|– Venus at greatest elongation west
|29 Apr 2015
|– Venus at highest altitude in evening sky
|06 Jun 2015
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Today's the day that new institutional insurance plans must begin covering birth control and other women's preventative health care services without a copay, which has caused a predictable disproportionate freak out among conservatives. Leading the call for a waaaah-mbulance is freshman Pennsylvania Republican Mike Kelly, who at an earlier press conference expressed his disdain for women's health benefits by comparing the preventative care mandate to 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor — comparisons that are offensive to women, to 9/11 victims and families, to people who fought during World War II, and, really, to both similes and metaphors as well as English teachers everywhere.
Kelly's far from a women's health expert; before he was a Congressman, he owned a car dealership that he inherited from his dad, where he presumably didn't spend his time between convincing people to buy minivans with fold down TV's on the ceilings so the kids can shut up and watch movies rather than talking to their parents furiously studying female anatomy and the way contraception actually works — nope, his anti-abortion, anti-birth control views were forged entirely in a kiln of white hot stupidity and religious fervor. His lack of expertise (or a uterus) hasn't stopped him from proclaiming that giving women the choice to use their employer-provided coverage in order to purchase things that Congressman Mike Kelly personally disagrees with is akin to terrorism and war, though. According to MSNBC, Kelly charmingly quipped,
I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that's Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that's the day of the terrorist attack. I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.
America's being attacked? Shouldn't we be deploying Seal Team 6 to Mike Kelly's wife's cervix? WHO CAN WE BOMB?!
Kelly wasn't the only one to embarrass himself at a press conference on a day where health care will become more accessible to millions of American women. New York's Ann Marie Buerkle added,
And as Mike said, August the 1st is a day that we as American will look at as the largest assault on our First Amendment rights.
Guess I missed that part of the US constitution that guarantees business owners the freedom to decide that their female employees shouldn't be allowed to purchase birth control using funds from a pool they've paid into. Or the part where men's religious convictions get to determine what women get to do inside their own skin.


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The fallout from the New Orleans Saints' participation in the bounty program threatens to wreck their 2012 season. The team has already lost Sean Payton to a season-long suspension and will be without interim head coach Joe Vitt for the first six games of the season.
'Bounty' player punishments
Jonathan Vilma was suspended for the 2012 season, one of four Saints players punished for their roles in the team's "bounty" program. **More ...**
•Vilma speaks out on suspension
•ATL: Saints will be OK in 2012
•Players react on Twitter
•Wyche: Fallout from rulings
While the absence of their coaches will certainly affect the Saints' preparation, Wednesday's suspensions of linebacker Jonathan Vilma (for the entire 2012 season) and defensive end Will Smith (four games) will have a significant impact on the Saints' performance this season. The duo's collective skills were the foundation of the Saints' defensive game plans, and each was expected to occupy a major role under new defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.
That being said, this team can overcome this latest wave of penalties. How? Here are three key adjustments we can expect from the Saints' defense without two of their top defenders on the field:
Spagnuolo is a Jim Johnson disciple and a fan of attacking defensive football, but he typically builds his schemes around the talent of his defensive line. He primarily wants to create pressure with four defenders, but augment conventional rushes with a variety of five- and six-man overload pressures designed to attack the weak areas of pass protection. The scheme is designed to create multiple isolated matchups at the point of attack, which should result in consistent pressure if one or two defenders win at the line of scrimmage.
However, the absence of Smith at defensive end will alter the way Spagnuolo opts to attack the quarterbacks with blitz pressure in New Orleans' first four games. Rather than utilize "Gut" pressures with multiple defenders running through the "A" gaps to force opponents to tighten down with protections, creating short corners for outside rushers, the Saints will likely bring more linebackers and defensive backs off the edges to keep quarterbacks confined to the pocket.
Smith, who finished 2011 with 6.5 sacks, excelled at winning one-on-one matchups off the edge with his quickness and power, so the Saints will want to replicate his consistent presence from the outside to disrupt the quarterback's timing in the pocket. In looking at the Saints' roster, Junior Galette could be a potential fill-in for Smith. He amassed 4.5 sacks a season ago in a part-time role, and his sack production should increase with more opportunities.
Sedrick Ellis is another player who could provide some production as an interior rusher. He has tallied 12.5 sacks in his four-year career, including six in 2010, and possesses the strength and quickness to win one-on-one battles inside. With Spagnuolo willing to utilize a combination of conventional rushes and exotic pressures to create confusion along the line, the Saints' sack production shouldn't dip dramatically with Smith on the sideline.
Vilma has been the centerpiece for the Saints' defense with his remarkable instincts, toughness and production, and obviously his season-long suspension is much harsher than Smith's four-game ban. Fortunately for New Orleans, new free-agent signees Lofton and Hawthorne possesses the ideal combination of skills to replace him in the middle.
Lofton, formerly of the Atlanta Falcons, has been one of the most productive tacklers in the NFL over the past four years and is a dominant force within the box. He has been credited with 118-plus tackles in each of the past three seasons, and his knack for getting to the ball has made him one of the league's most feared defenders in the middle. In Spagnuolo's scheme, Lofton will have the freedom to run from sideline to sideline unimpeded due to the shaded alignment of defensive tackles, which occupies multiple blockers at the point of attack. If the previous production of Antonio Pierce and James Laurinaitis serves as an indicator of Lofton's potential impact within Spagnuolo's scheme, the Saints should expect big results from their new man in the middle.
Hawthorne, formerly of the Seattle Seahawks, should offset the loss of Vilma's playmaking ability with his versatile skills. He is adept at coming off the edge on blitzes and also displays the athleticism and instincts to drop in coverage. Hawthorne has six sacks, seven interceptions and five forced fumbles in his four-year career and is coming off a highly productive season in Seattle. Spagnuolo will use Hawthorne at weak-side linebacker to take advantage of his speed and quickness and likely incorporate him into the rush as a blitzer from various alignments. In addition, Hawthorne should play a big role in the Saints' sub packages to maximize his skills in coverage. He has a great feel for reading and anticipating routes, which routinely results in big plays.
With Vilma out for the season, the Saints will lean on this hard-hitting tandem to steer the ship in his absence.
The loss of several key front seven defenders, particularly Will Smith, could force the Saints to incorporate Harper extensively into the pass rush. He has been one of the most active box defenders in the league, with 12 sacks over the past three seasons, including 7.5 in 2011.
At 6-foot-1, 200 pounds, Harper overwhelms tackles with his quickness and burst, but also displays enough strength and power to fight through contact on the way to the quarterback. His knack for creating pressure off the edge is exceptional for a second-level defender, particularly a defensive back.
Spagnuolo certainly wasn't afraid to utilize a safety on pressures during his time in Philadelphia with Brian Dawkins, so it very likely Harper will be featured prominently in the Saints' blitz packages as an extra rusher. From crash blitzes off the edges to "A"-gap pressures off an outside-the-box alignment, Harper will routinely attack the quarterback from the second level. If he is able to get home consistently, the Saints' pass rush will not skip a beat with a couple of their best defenders on the sidelines.


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Public Employee Unions Funnel Public Money to Dems
A Commentary by Michael Barone
Who is the largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle? You can be pardoned if you answer, erroneously, that it's some new conservative group organized by Karl Rove. That's campaign spin by the Obama Democrats, obediently relayed by certain elements of the so-called mainstream media.
The real answer is AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union's president, Gerald McEntee, reports proudly that AFSCME will be contributing $87,500,000 in this cycle, entirely or almost entirely to Democrats. "We're spending big," he told The Wall Street Journal. "And we're damn happy it's big."
The mainstream press hasn't shown much interest in reporting on unions' campaign spending, which amounted to some $400,000,000 in the 2008 cycle. And it hasn't seen fit to run long investigative stories on why public employee unions -- the large majority of whom work for state and local governments -- contribute so much more to campaigns for federal office.
Nor has it denounced the Supreme Court's decision last January in Citizens United allowing unions to spend members' dues on politics without their permission and without disclosure.
AFSCME's number one status is emblematic of a change in the union movement over the years. Before public employee unions won the right to represent employees in New York City in 1958 and federal employees in 1962, almost all union members worked in the private sector.
But unions today represent only 7 percent of private-sector workers, and in 2009, for the first time in history, most union members were public employees.
This would not have gone down well with President Franklin Roosevelt. "The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," he said in the 1930s. A public employee strike, he said, "looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable."
It still is at the federal level, thanks to presidents of both parties and especially to Ronald Reagan's firing of the striking air traffic controllers in 1981. But successful strikes in many states and cities have given public employee unions huge clout and hugely generous salaries, benefits and pensions.
Even more important is the political reality that, as New York union leader Victor Gotbaum said in 1975, "We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss."
The anomalies don't end there. Public employees' union dues and contributions to union PACs come directly from taxpayers. So if you live in a state or city with strong public employee unions, you are paying a tax that goes to elect Democratic candidates (plus, perhaps, a few malleable Republicans).
The problem is that, as Roosevelt understood, public employee unions' interests are directly the opposite of those of taxpayers. Public employee unions want government to be more expensive and government employees to be less accountable.
Yes, some union leaders, like the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers, have been concerned about the quality of public services. But they have been the exception rather than the rule.
Public employee unions have collected big-time from the Obama Democrats. The February 2009 stimulus package contained $160 billion in aid to state and local governments. This was intended to, and did, insulate public employee union members from the ravages of the recession that afflicted those unfortunate enough to make their livings in the private sector.
How it benefited the society as a whole is less clear. State governments in California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey are facing enormous budget deficits and much, much greater pension liabilities. Much of the life of their private-sector economies has been sucked out by the public employee unions, with a resulting flight of middle-income citizens unable or unwilling to bear such burdens.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, elected in 2009, has become a kind of folk hero for his defiance of the state's teacher unions, which expect 4 percent raises in years of no growth or inflation and balk at having members pay any share of health insurance premiums.
Public employee union members have become, as U.S. News and World Report Editor Mortimer Zuckerman writes, "the new privileged class," with better pay, more generous benefits and far more lush pensions than those who pay their salaries -- and who are taxed to send money to their leaders' favored candidates.
Franklin Roosevelt thought public sector unions were a lousy idea. Do you?
Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.
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Trump's company asked Panama president to help in hotel spat
PANAMA CITY — President Donald Trump's company appealed directly to Panama's president to intervene in its fight over control of a luxury hotel, even invoking a treaty between the two countries, in what ethics experts say was a blatant mingling of Trump's business and government interests.
That appeal in a letter last month from lawyers for the Trump Organization to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela was apparently unsuccessful — an arbitrator declined to reinstate the Trump management team to the waterfront hotel in Panama City. But it provides hard proof of exactly the kind of conflict experts feared when Trump refused to divest from a sprawling empire that includes hotels, golf courses, licensing deals and other interests in more than 20 countries.
"This could be the clearest example we've seen of a conflict of interest stemming from the president's role as head of state in connection with other countries and his business interests," said Danielle Brian, executive director of The Project on Government Oversight, a Washington ethics and good government organization.
In the March 22 letter to Varela, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, lawyers for the Trump Organization "URGENTLY" request the Panamanian leader's influence to help reverse the company's acrimonious eviction as managers of the 70-story luxury high-rise once known as the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower.
While never mentioning Trump or his role as president, the letter says lawyers representing the Trump Organization were aware of "the separation of powers" in Panama but essentially asks the country's president to intervene in the judicial process anyway. It goes on to say that the eviction violates an investment treaty signed by the two countries and suggests that the Panamanian government, not the hotel's new management team, could be blamed for any wrongdoing.
"We appreciate your influence in order to avoid that these damages are attributed not to the other party, but to the Panamanian government," said the letter, which was copied to Panamanian Cabinet officials, as well as the presidents of the Supreme Court and National Assembly.
Late Monday, the Trump Organization made available a translated statement from its Panamanian lawyers, Britton & Iglesias, insisting that the letter to Varela was not an attempt to pressure him "or any other official of the government of Panama." The law firm said its appeal to Panama's government was "very common" and that it had not even informed Trump Organization officials of the move beforehand.
Five days after the law firm urged Varela's intervention, however, a court arbitrator ruled against reinstating the previous management, even though he agreed that Trump's company should not have been evicted while arbitration was ongoing.
A source in Varela's office who was not authorized to comment publicly confirmed receipt of the letter but his office did not respond to calls for comment.
Panama's foreign secretary, Isabel de Saint Malo, who also received a copy of the letter, said Monday: "I don't believe the executive branch has a position to take while the issue is in the judicial process."
The White House referred all questions to the Trump Organization, which did not respond until late Monday night.
Even if Trump was not directly involved in the dispute, his company's citation of the treaty and its appeal to Varela "implicitly traded on President Trump's name and power," said University of Minnesota political governance expert Lawrence Jacobs.
Despite frequent ethics complaints from critics and three current lawsuits accusing him of accepting gifts from foreign and state governments, Trump has clung to constitutional precedence holding that presidents are mostly immune from conflict-of-interest laws.
While most previous presidents have divested some financial assets and placed others in "blind trusts" they could not control during their tenures, Trump kept total control of the Trump Organization but ceded day-to-day management to two of his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric.
Brian said she and other ethicists worry that "this sets a low bar of standards for future presidents."
The bitter standoff in Panama began in October when the owners of the hotel — which was run by Trump under a management agreement — sought to fire his company, citing damage to Trump's brand and mismanagement by hotel officials. But the Trump Organization disputed its termination as illegitimate and refused to hand over the property.
It came to a head in early March, when Panamanian judicial officials sided with majority owner Orestes Fintiklis and a justice of the peace backed by police officers ordered the Trump management team to vacate the property. Workers immediately scrubbed Trump's signage from the hotel and renamed it The Bahia Grand Panama.
The emergency arbitration decision late last month said the case should have remained in arbitration and never gone to Panamanian courts. Both sides continue fighting over who violated the hotel management contract.
Braun reported from Washington.
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Starting at just $7.99, there's something in here for everyone (including more than a handful for yourself). The collection will be available December 1 at all Target and Neiman Marcus stores, as well as online. Start plotting those wish lists, now!
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Manigator has been shrouded in as much mystery as Bat Boy – perhaps even more. Not much is known about him aside from the fact that he is half man half alligator and has an affinity for books. Well Manigator has decided to come out of hiding and do a little sightseeing and the Big Apple is his first stop.
Mild hysteria and intrigue have gripped NYC as three reptiles have been captured in a span of 24 hours. Urban legends of alligators living in NYC's sewers have been common and residents feared the worse when a baby alligator was captured in Astoria around 3 p.m. Sunday. Those fears were calmed when it was suggested that the cold-blooded animal was most likely someone's pet. Weekly World News knows that it is most likely Manigator's pet.
Manigator doesn't exactly blend in with the crowd and he needs some kind of diversion to be able to see the sights. Not only did he release an alligator, but he also let go an Argentine tegu and "a large … very large iguana" into the streets of NYC.
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"I'm not sacrificing my friends for the sake of my own agenda," Manigator told WWN. "This is just a means to an end. I get to see the sights. NYC panics because of 'reptiles taking over the city.' But my tour won't be over until I am reunited with my friends. I'll make sure to get them back. No worries."
Michael Pastore, field operations director of Animal Care & Control of New York City, handled the capturing of the baby alligator.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Acquire SGI to Extend Leadership in High-Growth Big Data Analytics and High-Performance Computing
AUGUST 11, 2016 • Press Release
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 11, 2016) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE)
- Strengthens position in $11 billion HPC segment which is growing at an estimated 6-8% CAGR, and in the data analytics segment, which is growing at over twice that rate
- Expands presence in key HPC verticals such as government, research, and life sciences
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a global leader in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, for $7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately $275 million, net of cash and debt.
SGI products and services are used for high-performance computing (HPC) and big data analytics in the scientific, technical, business and government communities to solve challenging data-intensive computing, data management and virtualization problems. The company has approximately 1,100 employees worldwide, and had revenues of $533 million in fiscal 2016.
"At HPE, we are focused on empowering data-driven organizations," said Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise."SGI's innovative technologies and services, including its best-in-class big data analytics and high-performance computing solutions, complement HPE's proven data center solutions designed to create business insight and accelerate time to value for customers."
The explosion of data -- in volume and variety, across all sectors and applications -- is driving organizations to adopt high-end computing systems to run compute-intensive applications and big data workloads that traditional infrastructure solutions cannot handle. This includes investments in big data analytics to quickly and securely process massive data sets and enable real-time decision making. High-end systems are being used to advance research in weather, genomics and life sciences, and enhance cyber defenses at organizations around the world.
As a result of this demand, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), the $11 billion HPC segment is expected to grow at an estimated 6-8% CAGR over the next three years1, with the data analytics segment growing at over twice that rate.
SGI's highly complementary portfolio, including its in-memory high-performance data analytics technology, will extend and strengthen HPE's current leadership position in the growing mission critical and high-performance computing segments of the server market. The combined HPE and SGI portfolio, including a comprehensive services capability, will support private and public sector customers seeking larger supercomputer installations, including U.S. federal agencies as well enterprises looking to leverage high-performance computing for business insights and a competitive edge.
"Our HPC and high-performance data technologies and analytic capabilities, based on a 30+ year legacy of innovation, complement HPE's industry-leading enterprise solutions.This combination addresses today's complex business problems that require applying data analytics and tools to securely process vast amounts of data," said Jorge Titinger, CEO and president, SGI. "The computing power that our solutions deliver can interpret this data to give customers quicker and more actionable insights. Together, HPE and SGI will offer one of the most comprehensive suites of solutions in the industry, which can be brought to market more effectively through HPE's global reach."
HPE and SGI believe that by combining complementary product portfolios and go-to-market approaches they will be able to strengthen the leading position and financial performance of the combined business.
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Information set forth in this communication, including statements as to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's or SGI's outlook and financial estimates and statements as to the expected timing, completion and effects of the proposed acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise of SGI, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements are based on various assumptions and the current expectations of the management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SGI, and may not be accurate because of risks and uncertainties surrounding these assumptions and expectations. Factors listed below, as well as other factors, may cause actual results to differ significantly from these forward-looking statements. There is no guarantee that any of the events anticipated by these forward-looking statements will occur, or what effect they will have on the operations or financial condition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise or SGI. Forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date hereof, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SGI undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement unless required to do so by the federal securities laws.
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WASHINGTON – Amid protests, the TSA is not backing down. They have ordered all passengers to be groped at security checkpoints.
Passengers across the country are in revolt over the new TSA techniques – which include groping and fondling – but Transportation Safety Administration chief John Pistole and several senators from both parties defended the new, enhanced airport security screening procedures as necessary in the face of a persistent and evolving terrorist threat in a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
"We must grope all passengers. Groping and cavity searches are the only way to make sure passengers are safe," Pistole said.
Pistole, calm and confident in the face of an increasing public outcry against the procedures, talked extensively about the repercussions of last year's attempted Christmas Day bombing being the impetus for the enhanced screenings before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, TSA's oversight committee.
"We know the terrorists' intent is still there," Pistole testified. "We are using technology and protocols to stay ahead of the threat and keep you safe. Terrorists will also have to be groped, so we think we are scaring them away."
Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said prior to Pistole's testimony that she believed TSA was doing the right thing. "I, personally, don't mind being groped. I think Americans are a bit uptight when it comes to their body. It's actually qutie nice to be fondled by a stranger in a uniform."
McCaskill went on to say that it wasn't technically groping. "It's more like love pats. And I approve of them. God knows we need more love in our society."
McCaskill and Pistole acknowledged the public concern that has made mini-celebrities out of some passengers who have opposed the new imaging scans and enhanced pat-downs. Pistole, a former FBI agent, went so far as to say he submitted himself to the groping and fondling and found them to be "much more pleasant than I thought."
However, Senator George LeMieux of Florida thought the groping was invasive, saying they had gone too far and that he "doesn't want (his) wife to be groped or fondled." He even suggested looking more at the Israeli model of behavioral profiling in airport screenings, which has been largely successful but also criticized as racist.
However, Pistole defended the groping because of the next generation of "non-metallic" explosives currently being used by terrorists. "We have to be vigilant."
There are some passengers that like the new policy and are flying more than ever. "I love it! I try to fly 3-4 times a day," said Jonathan Mettier of Louisiana. "I usually put a tube of toothpaste down my pants, just to make it more interesting. This is FUN."
Let the groping begin!!


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By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER - While the overall rate of new HIV infections has steadily declined in British Columbia, the epidemic among gay and bisexual men continues, the provincial health officer said in his annual report released Monday.
Dr. Perry Kendall said the infection rate among gay and bisexual men has remained steady for the past decade.
The group made up 57 per cent of new infections in B.C. in 2011 and accounted for 45 per cent of the provincial population living with HIV.
"If we look at incident and prevalence infections, gay and bisexual men continue to bear a disproportionate burden of HIV illness," Kendall said.
Overall, there has been a drastic drop in the number of new infections annually in the province. In 2012, there were 238 new cases diagnosed in B.C. — the lowest on record. In comparison, there were 788 in 1992 and 418 in 2002.
Gay and bisexual men aged 30 to 44 years represent the highest proportion of new diagnoses, the report said.
"We have a confluence of factors working together to make this a challenging epidemic," Kendall said.
"Health outcomes do not happen in a vacuum. They're the result of a complex interaction of a number of factors, most of which may be determined by the environment in which boys and men live, work and play."
There are many theories about the worrying trend, Kendall said: that gay and bisexual men are suffering "condom fatigue," less vigilance because HIV is now a treatable disease, less testing, or lower perception of risk.
But the answers are more complex, he said.
Broader societal issues like marginalization of the community, stigma and racism play a role, as well as access to appropriate health care, sexual behaviour and other factors, said the report by Kendall and Dr. Mark Gilbert of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
The report also pointed out that while gay and bisexual men now represent nearly half of the HIV population, less than 10 per cent of Canadian health research grants in 2011 were for prevention targeting that group.
The report included 15 recommendations from an advisory group and six priorities from the public health officer, including a provincewide strategy.
"The report does signal the need to be now really focusing on gay and bisexual men," he said.
"It's not to say we can stop what we've been doing for people using injection drugs. There's still a need to support that community but we do need to really prioritize our efforts."
B.C. is the only province that has had a consistent decline in new HIV infections. Most provinces have seen static or slightly increasing rates, with the exception of Saskatchewan, where the disease is still on the rise, Kendall said.
Though antiretroviral medications have changed HIV from a fatal disease to a chronic, manageable illness, an estimated 35 million of the 70 million people infected worldwide have died.
Jesse Brown was 20 when he was diagnosed with HIV. Now the executive director of Youth Co. HIV and Hep C Society, he gave the report and recommendations a ringing endorsement.
"The great news is that we live in British Columbia, and have the resources and know what it is to prevent HIV and support our community," he said.
"... Changing some of the larger social determinants of health, like homophobia and stigma, will continue to challenge us for a long time to come."


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AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA will advance U.S. leadership in mobile data and improve consumers' wireless experience, the company's top executives said on a conference call Monday morning.
The US$39 billion acquisition, announced Sunday, would form the nation's largest mobile operator and reduce the number of big national carriers from four to three. It still faces regulatory review by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice and is not expected to close for another 12 months.
On the conference call, executives invoked U.S. competitiveness and mobile competition in what amounted to sales job for a deal that some critics have called bad news for consumers.
Together, the two companies say they will be able to deploy a fast LTE (Long Term Evolution) network to 46.5 million more U.S. residents than they could have reached separately, covering 95 percent of the U.S. population.
"This infrastructure will be a competitive advantage for the U.S. for many years to come," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chairman and CEO. "We're making a commitment to further America's leadership for the next wave of innovation and leadership in mobile broadband." The U.S. leads the world in mobile broadband subscribers, smartphone sales and mobile app downloads, Stephenson said.
AT&T expects the FCC and DOJ to look closely at the deal and believes it will have to discuss divesting some assets to gain approval, said Wayne Watts, senior executive vice president and general counsel.
"We very carefully considered every aspect thoroughly and concluded that this deal can and should be approved," Watts said.
The FCC will determine whether the deal is in the public interest, and the DOJ will judge whether it adversely affects competition. AT&T contends that competition is strong and growing stronger, with the recent entry of WiMax operator Clearwire and the planned launch of the LightSquared satellite-LTE network. Despite the size advantage AT&T and rival Verizon Wireless have over Sprint Nextel and smaller national and regional carriers, consumers in most individual markets have several choices, AT&T says.
"Competition is vibrant and will only increase after this transaction," Watts said.
Until the deal is approved, AT&T and T-Mobile will continue to compete as they have been, the executives said. Then, the networks and services will be merged in a gradual process that will include equipping cell sites to carry both carriers' frequencies and making all AT&T devices — including Apple products — available to T-Mobile customers, according to Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.
Though some cell sites will be taken down as part of the consolidation, the net effect will be more dense coverage, said John Stankey, president and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions, who also has responsibility for networks. For example, AT&T estimates coverage density will increase by between 25 percent and 35 percent in both San Francisco and New York.
"Greater density drives better performance and greater capacity to serve the accelerating data demand, and customers will see a difference. Their experience will improve," Stankey said.
At the heart of the deal was the need for greater spectrum to make all this network expansion possible to keep up with booming mobile data volume that has grown by 8,000 percent over the past four years, according to AT&T.
"It lets us get more spectral capacity in the market sooner than any other industry alternative," Stankey said.
Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. , American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON (March 1, 2012) — President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a White House tribute to Iraq War veterans and their families last night to honor them for their service, sacrifice and commitment to the nation.
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with senior officials from all branches of service joined the president and the first lady at an event dubbed "A Nation's Gratitude: Honoring Those Who Served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn."
"In one of our nation's longest wars, you wrote one of the most extraordinary chapters in American military history," Obama told the more than five dozen Iraq veterans and their guests. "Now, the Iraqi people have a chance to forge their own destiny, and every one of you who served there can take pride in knowing you gave the Iraqis that opportunity – that you succeeded in your mission."
The vice president lauded service members for their ability to adapt to challenges, the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the opportunity they gave the people of Iraq to have a self-governing, self-sufficient nation.
"You're incredible. You adapted, you succeeded and you defeated," Biden said. "You defeated a tyrant, [and] you beat back violent extremists. And the most remarkable thing you did, because of the breadth of your capability, you enabled a country that had not been governed in any reasonable way for over four decades, you actually helped them set up institutions and train a military and a civilian corps that gives them a real fighting chance."
Panetta expressed his gratitude to all in attendance as well as the million-plus service members they represented for fulfilling their duties, for their dedication and for their service to the nation.
"To all who fought in Iraq, we thank you for your service," he said. "You've earned our nation's everlasting gratitude. We are indebted to you for your willingness to fight [and] your willingness to sacrifice for your country.
"We are [also] indebted to your families and your loved ones for the sacrifices that they made so that their loved ones could help defend this nation," Panetta said.
The chairman, who was first to speak, thanked the president and first lady for paying tribute to veterans and families of the Iraq War.
"Mr. President, Mrs. Obama, thank you for recognizing the service and sacrifice of the military family in this very special way," he said. "We really appreciate the support that you, the vice president and Dr. Biden, and those that they bound together in the 'Joining Forces' initiative and the nation provide us."
The first lady and Dr. Biden have championed the Joining Forces effort, which seeks to mobilize tangible support for service members and their families in all sectors of American society.
Just before dinner began, the president emphasized how proud he is of the U.S. military for working together to achieve success in Iraq.
"As your commander in chief, I could not be more proud of you," Obama said. "As an American, as a husband and father of two daughters, I could not be more grateful for your example [of] the kind of country we can be, [and] for what we can achieve when we stick together."
Obama paid tribute to "courageous" troops who served despite the likelihood of being sent into harm's way and to fallen service members and their families.
"You taught us about sacrifice – a love of country so deep, so profound, you're willing to give your life for it," he said. "Tonight, we pay solemn tribute to all who did."
Obama recalled five service members who were the first casualties of the Iraq War, and the last U.S. casualty there, who was killed Nov. 14.
"Separated by nearly nine years, they are bound for all time among the nearly 4,500 American patriots who gave all that they had to give," the president said. "To their families, including the Gold Star families here tonight, know that we will never forget their sacrifice, and that your loved ones live on in the soul of our nation, now and forever."


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[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.]
About two weeks ago, another round of vulnerability stats got passed around. Like others before, it claims to use CVE to compare Apple iOS versus Android in an attempt to establish which is more secure based on "vulnerability counts". The statistics put forth are basically meaningless, because like most people using a VDB to generate stats, they don't fully understand their data source. This is one type of bias that enters the picture when generating statistics, and one of many points Steve Christey (MITRE/CVE) and I will be making next week at BlackHat (Wednesday afternoon).
As with other vulnerability statistics, I will debunk the latest by showing why the conclusions are not based on a solid understanding of vulnerabilities, or vulnerability data sources. The post is published on The Verge, written by 'Mechanicix'. The results match last year's Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (as mentioned in the comments), as well as the results published this year by Sourcefire in their paper titled "25 Years of Security Vulns". In all three cases, they use the same data set (CVE), and do the same rudimentary counting to reach their results.
The gist of the finding is that Apple iOS is considerably less secure than Android, as iOS had 238 reported vulnerabilities versus the 27 reported in Android, based on CVE and illustrated through CVEdetails.com.
Total iOS Vulnerabilities 2007-2013: 238
Total Android Vulnerabilities 2009-2013: 27
Keeping in mind those numbers, if you look at the CVE entries that are included, a number of problems are obvious:
- We see that the comparison timeframes differ by two years. There are at least 3 vulnerabilities in Android SDK reported before 2009, two of which have CVEs (CVE-2008-0985 and CVE-2008-0986).
- These totals are based on CVE identifiers, which does not necessarily reflect a 1-to-1 vulnerability mapping, as they document. You absolutely cannot count CVE as a substitute for vulnerabilities, they are not the same.
- The vulnerability totals are incorrect due to using CVE, a data source that has serious gaps in coverage. For example, OSVDB has 71 documented vulnerabilities for Android, and we do not make any claims that our coverage is complete.
- The iOS results include vulnerabilities in WebKit, the framework iOS Safari uses. This is problematic for several reasons.
- First, that means Mechanicix is now comparing the Android OS to the iOS operating system and applications.
- Second, WebKit vulnerabilities account for 109 of the CVE results, almost half of the total reported.
- Third, if they did count WebKit intentionally then the numbers are way off as there were around 700 WebKit vulnerabilities reported in that time frame.
- Fourth, the default browser in Android uses WebKit, yet they weren't counted against that platform.
- The results include 16 vulnerabilities in Safari itself (or in WebKit and just not diagnosed as such), the default browser.
- At least 4 of the 238 are vulnerabilities in Google Chrome (as opposed to WebKit) with no mention of iOS in the CVE.
- A wide variety of iOS applications are included in the list including Office Viewer, iMessage, Mail, Broadcom BCM4325 and BCM4329 Wi-Fi chips, Calendar, FreeType, libxslt, and more.
When you factor in all of the above, Android likely comes out on top for the number of vulnerabilities when comparing the operating systems. Once again, vulnerability statistics seem simple on the surface. When you consider the above, and further consider that there are likely more points that influence vulnerability counts, we see that it is anything other than simple.


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Director James Cameron is now the record holder for deepest solo dive after his submarine, "Deepsea Challenger" made it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench a couple hours ago. The sponsors of the expedition are James Cameron, Rolex, and National Geographic making me think this will turn into a film someday. Another fact which makes it seem like I'm making this all up, which I'm not, is Paul Allen is live-Tweeting the entire thing.
I've been holding on to this really amazing interactive infographic of the Mariana Trench for a long time, and now is the perfect time to share it. The deepest part of the Trench is called Challenger Deep, a name Tolkien certainly would have created if he'd ever finished his pirate adventure.


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MIAMI (AP) — Five games into his tenure with the Marlins, motor mouth manager Ozzie Guillen is returning to Miami to explain himself as a backlash builds regarding favorable comments he made about Fidel Castro.
At least two local officials said Guillen should lose his job, and the chairman of the Florida Hispanic Legislative Caucus called Monday for "punitive measures" against him.
Hoping to quell the political tumult, Guillen planned to leave his team briefly in Philadelphia and fly to Miami to apologize Tuesday at Marlins Park. The Marlins and Phillies resume their series Wednesday after a day off Tuesday.
Guillen, a Venezuelan, told Time magazine he loves Castro and respects the Cuban dictator for staying in power so long.
Before Monday's game, Guillen said he has had sleepless nights because of his comments and wants to make amends.
"I'm going to make everything clear what's going on," he said. "People can see me and talk. I've already talked to people. But I think it's the proper thing to see my eyes. They can see me and ask whatever question they want. I think sooner is better. Better for the ballclub, better for me."
He apologized over the weekend after the story broke, but some Cuban Americans remained upset. One group planned a demonstration Tuesday at the ballpark that was organized before Guillen said he would fly to Miami.
Guillen's talkative style often makes headlines, but the timing of his comments about Castro couldn't be worse for the Marlins. They opened a new ballpark last week in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami and are trying to rebuild their fan base with the help of South Florida's large Cuban American population.
Francis Suarez, chairman of the Miami city commission, said Guillen should be fired.
"Mr. Guillen's admiration for a dictator who has destroyed the lives of so many and who has violated the basic human rights of millions is shameful," Suarez said in a statement. "On behalf of many angry residents, I'm calling for real action to be taken and for the removal of Mr. Guillen."
Joe Martinez, chairman of the Miami-Dade County board of commissioners, issued a statement calling for Guillen to resign.
"This unfortunate comment is an insult to the citizens of Miami-Dade who have been victims of a tyrant in power for over 50 years," Martinez said.
State Sen. Rene Garcia, chairman of the Florida Hispanic Legislative Caucus, described Guillen's comments as appalling and insulting. In a letter to Marlins president David Samson, Garcia said he expects the Marlins to punish Guillen.
"If the Miami Marlins are to be respected in this community, your organization must stand with the Cuban-American exiled community and execute expedient punitive measures against Mr. Guillen which will rectify the situation," Garcia wrote.
Samson and the Marlins organization had no comment Monday. The team released a statement last weekend saying there was nothing to respect about Castro, but Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said the statement didn't go far enough.
"For too long, the Marlins organization has been the source of controversies in our community," Gimenez said, "and I now challenge them to take decisive steps to bring this community back together."
Guillen said his news conference would be open to "anybody that wants to be there."
"I know I hurt a lot of people," Guillen said. "I want to get the thing over with."
It's not the first time Guillen has stirred a political tempest. He twice appeared on a radio show hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in October 2005, when Guillen led the Chicago White Sox to the World Series title. At the time, Guillen said: "Not too many people like the president. I do."
Chavez is unpopular with many Venezuelans, especially those living in the United States. Guillen became a U.S. citizen in 2006 and has been more critical of Chavez in recent years.
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