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I realize that I am speaking at the end of a conference where you've already heard from a roster of impressive speakers. I am going to try to keep my comments brief. Adlai Stevenson once said that the best after-dinner speech he ever heard was: "Waiter, I'll take the check."
Well, I'm not going to be that brief. But it is a great pleasure to be here to speak to the National Council of La Raza, which is one of our national leaders in promoting the importance of education in the Hispanic community.
La Raza was one of the first progressive organizations to nurture and support a large network of charter schools.
You have also actively promoted early childhood education and preschool education for Hispanic children, who historically have been underrepresented in these vital programs.
Your CEO, Janet Murguia, has been a leader in working with other civil rights organizations to close the achievement gap as well.
President Obama and I believe that reducing dropout rates and boosting student achievement among Hispanic students is absolutely essential to the future of our economy and the future of our nation.
And it's especially critical that many more Hispanic students enroll and graduate from college. I want to call on you today to help work with us to strengthen the college-going culture in Hispanic communities across the U.S.
The statistics, the big picture is well known. For the last decade, Hispanic students have been the biggest minority group in our public schools.
As the superintendent of Chicago's public schools for seven years, I saw firsthand that the success of many of our reforms depended on our Hispanic students. Last year, just over 40 percent of students in the city's public schools were Hispanic.
Yet we all know that nationwide, almost half of Latino students drop out of high school—and those students will have to compete for jobs in a global economy.
It is no secret that education is more important today than ever to getting a good job.
By 2016—in just eight short years—four out of every 10 new jobs will require some advanced education or training. Thirty of the fastest growing fields in the economy today require a minimum of a bachelor's degree.
Now, the Hispanic work ethic is legendary. But I want Latinos to not only be known as the backbone of the economy but its brains as well. And that is going to require many more Hispanics students to enroll in and complete college.
I don't know if there has ever been an administration in Washington that is as personally committed to boosting educational attainment in the Hispanic community as the current administration.
A little more than a year ago, Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego. And he said that the election was "about the Latino students who are dropping out of school faster than nearly anyone else, and the children who attend overflowing classes in underfunded schools."
When the President gave his speech laying out his education reform agenda this year he didn't do it at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He spoke before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
The President has already appointed Juan Sepulveda as the director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. Juan is well-known to many of you. He has already started a series of town hall discussions around the country about increasing educational attainment among Latino students.
My Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs, Gabby Gomez, is well-versed in the problems that confront Hispanic students and districts that are majority Latino. And I'm pleased to tell you that just last Friday, Thelma Melendez, was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
Thelma will be the first Hispanic to serve in that position in the department's history.
It is hard for me to think of someone more familiar with the needs of Hispanic students than Thelma. She was an ELL student herself growing up in California, where she had her high school counselor tell her that she would never get in to UCLA. Well, she did get into UCLA—and got a Ph. D in language and literacy. She went on to teach ELL and became the superintendent of the Pomona Unified School District—a district that is predominantly Hispanic and low-income.
Thelma knows that bilingualism can be a great asset for students and workers in a globally competitive market. But I'll tell you something you might not know. In the Chicago public schools, we had the largest Chinese language program in the country—and many of the students taking Chinese were Latino.
So I want you to know that this administration doesn't just hear the voice of Latino leaders. In fact, we are convinced that improving educational attainment among Hispanic students is critical to our nation's future.
That is one reason why I am convinced that we have a unique opportunity to reform our schools that we cannot afford to miss. I've called this the perfect storm for reform.
For the first time, we have governors stepping up around the country to agree to common, rigorous standards in math and English. They have said no more to lying to students—they have rejected the dumbed-down standards that led students to believe they were college-ready when they weren't.
For the first time, we have union leaders who are stepping outside their comfort zones to challenge the status quo, and we have congressional leaders committed to reform.
And for the first time the U.S. Department of Education has the resources to incentivize far-reaching reforms in our nation's schools. Last week, the President announced the draft guidelines to the $4.35 billion Race to the Top fund. That's a bigger pot of discretionary money for reform than all of my predecessors at the department had combined.
The Race to the Top is a competition, and only the states with the most effective and comprehensive reform plans will be funded.
We have four core reforms or assurances that we are seeking from states. We want states to work toward setting common, internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that really tell us whether students are college-ready.
We want states to develop data systems that allow them to do a better job of tracking growth in student learning and tailoring instruction to the needs of students.
It is no secret that talent matters tremendously. And to boost the quality of teachers and principals—especially in high-poverty schools and hard-to-staff subjects—states and districts should be able to identify their most effective and least effective teachers, and put the best teachers where they are needed most.
And finally, to turn around the lowest-performing schools, states and districts must be ready to institute far-reaching reforms, replace school staff, and change the school culture. We cannot continue to tinker in high schools that are little more than "dropout factories" where students fall further behind, year after year.
All of these four reforms are essential if we are going to start to close the achievement gap and make the dream of equal educational opportunity a reality.
But we have one other unique force in our favor. I call it the "Barack Effect." The president—and the First Lady—have made education cool and hip again.
I hear kids say all the time they not only want to be the president, they want to be smart like the president.
I hope that in Latino communities, parents and kids are going to start talking soon about the "Sotomayor effect." Judge Sotomayor's story is impressive in so many ways. But I love what she has said about the power of education.
Judge Sotomayor's father was a factory worker with a third grade education. He died when Sonia was just nine years old—and Sonia's mother had to work six days a week to raise Sonia and her brother in a Bronx housing project on her nurse's salary.
But Sonia Sotomayor's mother told her two children that education was the key to success in America. Her children were the only kids in their housing project that had a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
At night, Sonia's mother sat at the kitchen table with her kids, studying side-by-side so she could become a registered nurse. And I think you know the rest of the story. Sonia Sotomayor was the valedictorian of her high school, top of her class at Princeton, and an editor at the Yale Law Journal. And I expect that she will soon become the first Hispanic member of the United States Supreme Court!
I think Judge Sotomayor put it best when she said that "my brother and I grew up in the projects. But through my mother's emphasis on education, we are living wonderful, full lives, liberated from the shackles of poverty."
I want every child to have the opportunity to fulfill their potential like Sonia Sotomayor and not be held back by the color of their skin or the burden of poverty.
The administration wants to turn those dreams into reality for many more students. And we're going to make an unprecedented effort to increase not only college enrollment but college completion.
President Obama's goal is for the U.S. to again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. And he wants every American to have at least one year of college or technical training.
The department's budget, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act enacted earlier this year, provide the largest commitment to higher education funding since the GI Bill sent World War II veterans to college and built the American middle class.
The cash value of Pell Grant awards for low-income students will increase by about 10 percent. And we are boosting the number of students receiving Pell Grants from 6 million to 7 million students. All told, we are going to be increasing Pell Grant funding by almost $42 billion over the next five years.
I'm pleased to report that we have also simplified the form for federal financial aid and will soon make this new version available in Spanish.
I am a big supporter of the Dream Act because every child, regardless of their status, deserves an equal opportunity to a high-quality college education. President Obama worked to pass the Illinois state version of the Dream Act, and he worked hard with Senator Durbin to move the federal version of the bill through the Senate.
Still, all of these new resources will not be enough if parents and communities don't do a better job of encouraging and supporting kids to college graduation.
While our public schools have more Hispanic students than Black students, just the opposite is true in college. Hispanic students are less likely than black students to enroll in college or get a degree. In 2005, only 11 percent of undergraduate students were Hispanic.
I know that the low rate of college attendance and completion among Hispanic students has complicated roots. The Hispanic community has so many strengths to draw upon—a strong work ethic, and strong religious and family values.
But there are times when some of these very strengths do not help students climb the mountain to college. When young Latino males drop out of high school to take jobs to support their family, they are ultimately limiting their potential. When working parents keep their kids at home to do babysitting because they don't believe in organized day care, those students are losing out.
I believe we need to create a stronger culture of college-going in low-income Hispanic communities. We need more parents like Sonia Sotomayor's mother, who said you will study hard and you will succeed at college and you will graduate—even if I have to work six days a week to make it happen.
We need more parents who will tell their kids to not only turn off the X-box but to get out the Encyclopedia Britannica and hit the books.
So I want to challenge parents and communities to become more involved in cultivating that culture of college-going and celebrating the importance of academic achievement.
And as part of that mission I want to encourage you to develop a new generation of Hispanic teachers. Twenty percent of all public school students in the U.S. are Latino. But only 5 percent of their teachers are Latino.
In Chicago, the numbers are just as lopsided—41% of students are Latino but only 15% of teachers are Hispanic.
I know that change of the sort I'm asking for does not come easily. But it can be done. From 2004 to 2008, the college enrollment rate for Latino graduates of the Chicago Public Schools rose nine percentage points, much faster than the small uptick in college enrollment among Hispanics nationally.
So as you go back to your communities at the end of this conference, I thank you for your service and celebrate the extraordinary contributions of La Raza and the Hispanic community.
But I also want to challenge you to help us, to help take the next step of making college an expectation for our young Latino students, and not an exception available to the lucky minority.
We are moving toward realizing the dream of equal educational opportunity. It has taken us a long time to get there. But together, for the good of our children, let's seize this unique moment in the history of education reform.
Thank you for all you have done—and continue to do—to improve our nation's schools.


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Hiroshima, city, capital of Hiroshimaken (prefecture), southwestern Honshu, Japan. It lies at the head of Hiroshima Bay, an embayment of the Inland Sea. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first city in the world to be struck by an atomic bomb.
Hiroshima, whose name means "broad island," is situated on the delta of the Ōta River, whose six channels divide it into several islets. It was founded as a castle town by the feudal lord Mōri Terumoto in the 16th century. From 1868 onward it was a military centre, which made it a potential target for Allied bombing during World War II. However, the city had not been attacked before the atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces at about 8:15 on the morning of August 6. Most of the city was destroyed, and estimates of the number of people killed outright or shortly after the blast have ranged upward from 70,000. Deaths and illnesses from radiation injury continued to mount through the succeeding decades.
Reconstruction under a comprehensive city-planning scheme was begun about 1950 with the rebuilding of the Inari Bridge, and Hiroshima is now the largest industrial city in that section of Japan encompassed by the Chūgoku (western Honshu) and Shikoku regions. The city contains many administrative offices, public utility centres, and colleges and universities. Industries produce steel, automobiles, rubber, chemicals, ships, and transport machinery, and Hiroshima is home to the headquarters of the Mazda Motor Corporation. The city has an international airport and extensive road and rail connections, including a station on the Shinkansen (bullet train) line of western Honshu.
Hiroshima has become a spiritual centre of the peace movement for the banning of nuclear weapons. In 1947 the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (since 1975 the Radiation Effects Research Foundation) began to conduct medical and biological research on the effects of radiation in Hiroshima. A number of public hospitals and private clinics give free treatment to victims of the atomic bombing (hibakusha). Hiroshima Castle, destroyed in the bombing, was restored in 1957 and houses a museum of city history.
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Two centuries ago today, Johann Christian Claudius Devaranne got himself shot for resisting Napoleon's draft in Germany.
The Corsican had fallen back following the debacle of occupying Moscow, but the attempts of Napoleon-allied forces to recoup dwindling numbers by conscription provoked fierce resistance in Solingen — where the draft board was driven out and recruiting materials destroyed.
This little flare-up goes by the excellent title of the "Russian Truncheon Insurgency," but it soon ran into the bayonets of Napoleon's German partners. On January 30, 1813, a week after draft riots first erupted, troops began suppressing it. Devaranne, a 29-year-old father of five, was seen as a leader in the resistance and a price put out on his head … a price his own maid collected when the fugitive innkeeper was reckless enough to sleep at home one night.
He was tried and shot at Dusseldorf months later, during a lull in the year's bloody campaign season.
For the 120th anniversary of Devaranne's execution — which was also six months into Adolf Hitler's Chancellorship — Solingen dedicated a memorial plaque to Devaranne, claiming his nationalist martyrdom as its own.
"It is no accident that precisely the Third Reich celebrates the memory of this hero. The same spirit which animated Devaranne, animates our SA as well," said the city's Lord Mayor. (There was an SA honor guard on hand for the occasion.) "Then as now, we revolt against repression, then against the Corsican, today the SA's revolution against the Marxists. We need the memory of our heroes to redirect us to their spirit in dark hours."
The plaque went missing after the war, but Devaranne still has a street named after him in Solingen.
On this day..
- 1573: Lancelot van Brederode, sea beggar - 2020
- 1909: William Hampton, Cornwall ghost - 2019
- 1934: William Bayly, bad neighbor - 2018
- 1683: Andrew Guilline, Covenanter accessory - 2017
- 1768: Francesco Arcangeli, Winckelmann-Mörder - 2016
- 1934: Not Walter Lett, To Kill a Mockingbird inspiration - 2015
- 1780: John Gamble, anti-Wilmot - 2014
- 1301: False Margaret, Norwegian pretender - 2012
- 1898: Choe Si-hyeong, Donghak leader - 2011
- 1998: David Wilson - 2010
- 1889: "Cattle Kate" Ella Watson lynched - 2009
- 1514: György Dózsa, Transylvanian Braveheart - 2008
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If you prefer the song of a flute to the ring of a cell phone, or a private conversation with an intimate friend to an extravagant party, then the return of Uranus to Pisces on December 30, 2003 should refresh your energy and restore your faith in humanity. After a cycle in Aquarius (focused on technological advances and a preoccupation with new toys), Uranus entered Pisces briefly in the spring, backtracked into Aquarius during a retrograde from June 7 to November 8, and softly shifted into the sign of imagination and compassion as 2003 drew to a close. Will e-mail make way for prayer flags? Can the programmer develop his inner artist? As Uranus in Pisces clears the way for advancement in the arts and new ways to help and heal, boundaries will be forced to stretch and science will need to embrace the inexplicable. We'll be challenged to restructure belief systems, redefine our personal spirituality, and become more caring.
Uranus in Pisces will give us the opportunity to truly tune in and feel the feelings of others, whether by virtual reality or conscious awareness. As a result, technology will take on a compassionate, creative personality. For example, important discoveries in medicine are likely to have a spiritual component. Music could take a strong step forward as a healing modality, while guided imagery, with the help of new technology, could speed the body's recovery process. Artists and inventors as astounding as Leonardo Da Vinci—who worked during a Uranus in Pisces period from 1500 to 1508—will emerge. Cultural revivals as stimulating as the Harlem Renaissance are likely to be duplicated. Fantasy books, films, and other media will further penetrate the mainstream during this cycle. These media will reach peaks in popularity, as human beings look beyond this world and seriously entertain the possibilities of life on other planets, the existence of other dimensions in space and time, and magick in all its varieties. Though Uranus sometimes causes chaos in his wake, we will experience artistic and spiritual progress like most of us have never seen in our lifetimes as the planet of awakenings makes his first pass through Pisces since 1919.
How will Uranus's sudden and often unexpected impact change your world? Use your Sun sign or ascendant and begin to predict:
Aries: The next several years signal a time of spiritual development as Uranus tours the twelfth house of your chart. Your interest in magick and fantasy stirs. You may also explore multiple religions as you look for ideals to live by, or a group that shares your vision. Uranus's effects can feel chaotic as walls break down and boundaries are blasted wide open. Learning to live without restrictions that once governed your mind is an adjustment. You feel global and spiritual connections and reach a new awareness of your place in the universe, and a path to your future is cleared.
Taurus: Uranus in Pisces will bring unique and eccentric friends into your circle. In fact, from now through 2011, your social circle is likely to change as sudden attachments form with friends who seem destined to cross your path. Others may enter your life for a short time only to open your mind and lead you in new directions. Your new relationships are connected to turns of events that make the once-unattainable suddenly possible. During difficult times your support system will strengthen and amaze you!
Gemini: Uranus brings career upheaval to even the most solid Gemini professional. The image you project now will no longer fit you at the end of 2011. In fact you may change professions more than once during Uranus's time in Pisces. Chances are you'll feel the need to break the mold you've been cast into at times during the next seven years. Even if you remain in the same field or with the same employer, you rebel against old ways and change the rules. Your success will rely on unconventional thinking. Circumstances could lead you to become your own boss, or to lead a revolution in your field. Regardless of how this comes about, you will shed insecurities and show the world the person you've truly become.
Cancer: Uranus in Pisces heralds a mind altering time in your life, Cancer. Sudden opportunities related to higher learning, travel, in-depth exploration, and study change your awareness. You become more unique and independent as you form your own theories and ideas about worldly and otherworldly phenomena. Unexpected requests to write, speak, or teach satisfy a deep need to share your knowledge and philosophies. You are both student and master while Uranus tours your ninth house.
Leo: Deep transformation occurs as Uranus tours Pisces in the eighth house of your chart. You will ultimately live more wholly and passionately as your understanding of life, death, and rebirth undergoes major shifts due to events of this period. Resources you gain from or share with others play a significant role in your life over the next seven years. Sudden wealth or unexpected loss changes your priorities. This is a time to invest in your future. You may also develop a latent talent for helping others deal with eighth house matters from death to medical treatment to large sums of money. Your connection to the spirit world and souls that have passed on inspires your work on earth by the end of Uranus's Pisces cycle.
Virgo: Uranus in Pisces signals a time to change your view of what it means to be a partner. Unpredictable changes in your marriage or business force you to reevaluate how you enter committed relationships. You may struggle between the need for independence and the desire for companionship. In the process it's likely you'll open your mind to less conventional relationships with creative, financial, or romantic partners. As Uranus tours Pisces you're likely to become part of a duo that attracts a great deal of attention for your originality! The person you feel you know the best may surprise you as a skeleton pops out of the closet, or a secret desire or sorrow comes to light. You are both challenged to learn, grow, and become more willing to compromise as a result. Your experience of commitment will be entirely altered by Uranus during this time.
Libra: Uranus will create lasting change in your day-to-day life, Libra. Your whole routine from work schedule to health practices will be altered as a result of the events Uranus brings. Your health is most likely to be the catalyst for you to adopt permanent lifestyle changes. Whether it's a sudden wake-up call from your doctor or an awakening personal interest, you're led to explore whole foods, alternative health practices, and new forms of exercise and relaxation. As you improve the way you care for yourself, your work style or type of employment is also likely to change. As your priorities shift, you make connections with different coworkers. Unhealthy situations—whether environmental or interpersonal—will motivate you to rebel and effect change, and others will benefit from your willingness to stir the pot.
Scorpio: Uranus in Pisces is a time of experimentation and creation as you find your muse! Inspiration and spontaneity burst forth as your first symphony, a beautiful series of photographs or a sudden desire to have children. The urge to create takes hold! Whether you create a family or gestate and give birth to a brainchild is up to you. Passion and love are an integral part of your Uranus in Pisces' cycle so you'l be motivated by your strongest longings. Scorpio athletes, artists, and innovators are blessed with the luck as well as the vision to reach creative peaks beginning now!
Sagittarius: Uranus in Pisces changes your home life, Sagittarius! Free spirited archer, you may now suddenly feel the need to take root and create a home or family. Or if you've settled into domestic life, you may feel an undeniable urge to break free and leave childhood or your comfortable home behind. Whatever opportunities you choose, your new life will defy convention. You may move frequently or far away, pursuing career goals or accompanying a family member on these journeys. This will be a time of challenges and awakenings that change your vision of home and family forever!
Capricorn: Uranus in Pisces signals a very busy and active time in your life. Exploring and communicating new ideas is the general theme whether you are involved in global business, telecommunications, study, or travel. The next several years are a time of learning for you, Capricorn. Opportunities that come are to expand your knowledge and give you venues for creative expression. You discover your own versatility and multiple talents. Print media, film, and photography are potential outlets for your inspirations. Family situations will change around you unexpectedly as well. A series of surprise Uranus in Pisces events between 2003 and 2011 result in a very different family portrait than the one that would be taken today!
Aquarius: As Uranus, your planetary ruler, moves to your next door neighbor's house, profitable opportunities await! Uranus in Pisces paves the way for you to earn a living from your inventive ideas and passionate interests. Electronics, computers, and inventions not yet introduced to the mainstream may figure in your work. Trademarks, patents and marketing plans will become part of many Aquarians' worlds as you revolutionize your areas of expertise, particularly in fields of science and communication. This is also a time for interesting personal acquisitions, and you could become a collector of the unusual, from memorabilia to antiques. Possessions with cultural or religious significance and authenticity will attract you, and you become a connoisseur. While Uranus tours Pisces, your original designs and ideas could earn you considerable wealth, though your intent was really to make the world a better and more beautiful place.


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The Works of William Paley, D.D.: A view of the evidences of Christianity
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... he had done no violence , neither was any deceit in his mouth . Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief . When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin , he shall see his seed , he shall prolong his days ...
... he had done no violence , neither was any deceit in his mouth . Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief . When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin , he shall see his seed , he shall prolong his days ...
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الصفحة 368 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
الصفحة 267 - And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 219 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains ; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
الصفحة 263 - And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they haVe received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.
الصفحة 374 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
الصفحة 79 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word ; it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
الصفحة 265 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
الصفحة 279 - And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither ; notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth ; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets ; He shall be called a Nazarene.
الصفحة 266 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies : these are the things which defile a man : but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
الصفحة 252 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ...


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August 10, 1949 Truman signs National Security Bill
President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, which establishes the Department of Defense. As the Cold War heated up, the Department of Defense became the cornerstone of America's military effort to contain the expansion of communism.
In 1947, the National Security Act established the Cabinet-level position of secretary of defense, which oversaw a rather unwieldy umbrella military-defense agency known as the National Military Establishment. The secretary of defense, however, was just one of a number of military-related cabinet positions, including the pre-existing secretaries for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The growing complexity of the Cold War, a war in which the mishandled application of military force could lead to a world war of cataclysmic proportions, convinced U.S. officials that the 1947 act needed to be revised.
In 1949, the National Security Bill streamlined the defense agencies of the U.S. government. The 1949 bill replaced the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense. The bill also removed the cabinet-level status of the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, who would henceforth be subordinate to the Secretary of Defense. The first person to hold this position was Louis Johnson. Finally, the bill provided for the office of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in an effort to bring to end to the inter-service bickering that had characterized the Joint Chiefs in recent years. World War II hero General Omar Bradley was appointed the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The National Security Bill of 1949 was the result of the realization that more coordination and efficiency were needed for America's military-defense bureaucracy, which had experienced tremendous growth during and after World War II. The Cold War was a new and dangerous kind of war for America, and the 1949 reorganization was recognition of the need for a different approach to U.S. defense.


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When Comedy Central flashed a picture of a naked woman with her legs spread and a nativity scene ornament in between—what Jon Stewart called "the vagina manger"—Viacom's executives weren't the slightest bit offended (Comedy Central is owned by Viacom). But these same people got ticked off recently when Don Rickles cracked a joke about President Obama.
On June 7, Rickles performed before a Hollywood crowd at the American Film Institute tribute to Shirley MacLaine. He quipped, "I shouldn't make fun of the blacks. President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke." When they showed this event on TV Land (a Viacom network) on June 24, Rickles' Obama joke was not aired.
On May 8, we mailed a color photo of the "vagina manger" shot to Viacom's directors; we asked them to direct Stewart to apologize. They refused. But it didn't take anyone from the NAACP to ask Viacom to nix Rickles' joke—they did it themselves.
Rickles' PR man offered this lame comment soon after the decision was made to censor the joke: "Before all of this started, we knew Don's spot would be cut a bit for time." More honest was Rickles himself: "Some jerk-offs got offended."
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There is an old adage that goes something like this: It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're stupid than to open your mouth and prove them right.
Thankfully for America not all Democrats are paying that adage much heed, and just in time for the election. Last week Linda McMahon, the GOP candidate for US Senate from Connecticut did the voters of her state a great service. She asked Richard Blumenthal, her Democrat opponent, a simple question: "How do you create a job?" His answer, if you can call it that, was a minute and a half of television gold, which would have been suitable for Laugh In were it still on the air:
"A job is created, and it can be in a variety of ways by a variety of people. But principally by people and businesses in response to demand for products and services. And the main point about jobs in Connecticut is, we can and we should create more of them by creative policies. And that's the kind of approach that I want to bring to Washington… I know about how government can help preserve jobs. And I want programs that provide more capital for small business, that are tax policies that will promote creation of jobs, stronger intervention by government to make sure we use the Made in America policies and Buy America policies to keep jobs here rather than buying products that are manufactured overseas."
At the beginning you think he might almost be stumbling into the right answer only to watch him find his bearings and focus so that by the end it's crystal clear that he has no idea how to create jobs. The key phrase in his answer is "stronger intervention of government". Dick Blumenthal in one moment of clarity demonstrates the typical Democratic approach to solving every problem in the country: Government intervention.
Despite decades of failed examples of government intervention in virtually every aspect of the American economy, Democrats still seem unmoved by actual evidence of failure and cling to their progressive notions that nirvana is to be found at the end of a bureaucrat's pen.
If Blumenthal were the only one then you could make the argument that he was an outlier and that most Democrats aren't of that cloth. Luckily he's not the only one who opened his mouth this week to demonstrate Democratic ineptitude. He was joined by Nancy Pelosi as she responded to Newt Gingrich. In a note to GOP candidates Gingrich suggested they make the campaign about the "Democratic Party of food stamps and the Republican Party of paychecks." He points out that when Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over Congress: 'Unemployment was 4.6% and food stamp usage was around 26.5 million Americans. Today, the unemployment rate is 9.6% and over forty million Americans are on food stamps."
Pelosi responded and in very short order demonstrated exactly how Democrats put us in this position in the first place: "It is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance. The biggest bang for the buck." The solution to all problems is government.
The Democratic belief that prosperity can be legislated or redistributed into existance makes no sense, particularly in a universe where there is simply no empirical evidence that such policies work and legions of examples that it doesn't work. It almost makes one think of the Soviet Union's Five Year Plans where the planning committee would set out rosy economic plans for the country that had little connection with the actual conditions in the economy. Invariably, in Orwellian fashion, the plans were invariably officially "successful" regardless of their abysmal failure on the ground. That practice didn't work out that well for the Soviets and I'm not sure it's a plan for success here either.
Finally, while Congress has much blame for our current economic mess, they are only part of the legislative partnership. Luckily for them, in President Obama they have found soul mate. A week before his inauguration he told an audience: "Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy — where a lack of spending leads to lost jobs which leads to even less spending; where an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less credit." Once in office he boldly set forth implementing the Democrats solution for the country. We had the Stimulus, the nationalization of the auto industry and student loans, the government takeover of healthcare and massive increases in regulation. And, if all that inept legislation were not bad enough in itself, his cabinet appointees, the people who actually implement that legislation intended to revive the economy and spur job creation, have less business experience than any cabinet in 100 years.
America faces a stark choice in November, one between a newly energized, free market solution oriented GOP (albeit having been dragged in that direction by the Tea Party movement – sometimes kicking and screaming) and a party of Democrats, who have pulled back the curtain to reveal what most of us assumed all along: They are economic illiterates. Their solution for creating jobs, reinvigorating the economy and putting America back on the road to prosperity is only to be found through government intervention. As the voters sit back and evaluate their choices, they need simply examine the success those Democratic policies have engendered everywhere from Detroit to California to the Soviet Union. Do they want to sign on for another American version of a Five Year Plan or is it time to give the free market a chance for a change?
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(Reuters) – A fuel tanker is suspected to have been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Angola, the ship's owners said on Wednesday, in what would be the most southerly attack to date by pirates off West Africa.
Pirate attacks jumped by a third last year off the coast of West Africa but were mostly confined to the Gulf of Guinea, around Africa's biggest oil producer Nigeria, where most of the hijacking gangs are believed to originate.
The 75,000 deadweight tonne Liberian-flagged fuel tanker MT Kerala lost contact with its Greece-based owner Dynacom on January 18. The ship was last seen around seven nautical miles from the Angolan capital Luanda, according to a security source.
"It is suspected that pirates have taken control of the vessel," Dynacom said in a statement, adding it had no confirmation.
If true, it would be hundreds of miles (kms) further down the coast than the previously most southerly reported attack, when pirates hijacked a tanker off Gabon last year. They were suspected of siphoning oil from the vessel.
One security source said the MT Kerala was loaded with gasoil. Tankers seized by Nigerian gangs are often released after the oil, gasoline or other fuel on board is transferred to smaller vessels. Sometimes crew are kidnapped for ransom.
International navies are not actively engaged in counter-piracy missions in the region, unlike in the waters off Somalia, the piracy hotspot on the other side of the continent.
Angola is Africa's second biggest crude oil exporter after Nigeria, where pirate attacks have pushed up insurance costs for shipping firms and foreign oil companies. Angola is a major exporter to China.
"If substantiated, this latest incident demonstrates a significant extension of the reach of criminal groups and represents a threat to shipping in areas that were thought to be safe," said Ian Millen, director of intelligence at Dryad Maritime.
Millen said a suspicious tug boat entered northern Angolan waters last week and was tracked moving north from Angola towards Nigeria after the suspected attack, which could point to an extension of the reach of Nigerian gangs.
The Gulf of Guinea region is a major source of oil, cocoa and, increasingly, metals for world markets.
(Reporting by Renee Maltezou in Athens and Joe Brock in Abuja; additional reporting by Jonathan Saul in London and Pascal Fletcher in Johannesburg; Editing by Alister Doyle)


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In Episode 076 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Remy, Andy Penn Romine, Steven Scearce and Galen Dara to celebrate the re-release of the Rigor Amortis anthology.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Cream or Sugar?
I've had coffee on my mind a lot lately. I've had to cut back to a very small cup (in my opinion anyway) due to stomach issues and it's been ridiculously hard! As one of my favorite authors says,
"The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself." ~Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
So you can see that of course it's not an easy task. ;) But Joe with her cuppa will have to do the coffee drinking for now. Doesn't she look comfortable hanging out, sipping some cafe in her favorite tree?
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I had to cut way back on coffee as well, and wine. Phooey. I found that instant coffee is easier on the tummy than brewed coffee.ReplyDelete
As always I love your dolls. Let me know if you make more crow ladies.
She's adorable n I'm currently drinking coffee =DReplyDelete
What a treat!
Ah she is lovely. Trouble is I now have a yearning for a latte. Cant believe I wasnt following your blog. Am now!ReplyDelete
She's even more lovely now that my espresso is brewed! Your designs are gorgeous! I see a feature length film in their futures don't you all?!!ReplyDelete
Congrats on living the life od an artist, your tummy will be better.<3
She is just delightful, cheers MarieReplyDelete
Oh i love her!ReplyDelete
She is so beautiful. What a cute smile and colorful eyes!ReplyDelete
I love your dolls.
Lovely ! I love the expression on her face !ReplyDelete
Hi - I love all your dolls especially the art dolls - they are truly amazing. I've just started doll making myself and have a blog at raggleberry.wordpress.com. I have written a post about your dolls - hope this is OK.ReplyDelete
Best wishes
she is so adorable!ReplyDelete
Lovely dolls....I like very much when they are made of tissue...The coffee fairy is adorable....ReplyDelete
I will be back / änglamakerskan
I just left a comment, but it disappeared......I like your tissue dolls very much.....and the coffee fairy is just adorable.../ÄnglamakerskanReplyDelete
I love them all /anglamakerskanReplyDelete


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A few weeks back, I blogged about creating a family history e-book, a digital book in a PDF format. This week we are going to explore a new feature at myheritage.com – A digital family history book.
First, if you are not familiar with My Heritage, then let me quickly introduce you to this unique website. They offer a portal where you can create your own family history website that enables families to meet, communicate, share and preserve their heritage. A basic subscription offers you the capability to create a family history tree up to 250 people, with a storage capacity of 250 MB enabling you to upload pictures. If you would like to go big, then subscribe to their Premium membership. For $4.38 a month (currently a 30% discount) billed annually, you can increase the size of your tree to 2500 people and 500 MB of storage, which are about 500 photos. This premium membership also offers you the new feature of the Timeline. If you would like to go grander, then try the Premium Plus membership, with unlimited tree size and storage capacity. For $9.95 a month, you will also have the Timeline feature and the Timebook feature. Two new options I have yet to explore. You can upload a gedcom file for a quick transfer of your tree to this site.
For the purposes of this post, I would like to focus on the Digital Family History Book.
If you are already a member of My Heritage, then you are a few simple clicks of the mouse away from creating a digital family history book in a couple of minutes delivered to your inbox. From there you are free to save it to your computer for printing or simply viewing in its digital format through acrobat. You can easily email to family members for sharing.
Your family history book at myheritage.com is beautiful digital book summarizing your tree, ancestor and descendants of any person in your family. Just tell it which person in your tree you wish to be the primary position and the book will be styled from that perspective. Your family book content may include all of the following, or you have the option of selecting only the content you wish to see in your book. The content includes photos and may include ancestors, descendants, direct relations, indirect relations, family trees, notes, sources, index of places, index of dates and an index of individuals.
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Although it is somewhat limiting in terms layout, and graphics, I still believe for the money, did I mention it's FREE, this is a very nice, clean program to quickly and painlessly put together a family history book. Of course, in terms of printing, the capabilities are limited to your home printer, which may be quite satisfactory for some, but if you are looking for a more professional printed and bound book then you will be limited.
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My Heritage is using a program called The Complete Genealogy Reporter, copyright 2010 by Nigel Bufton Software. If you want to increase your options then I encourage you to check out the full version of this software for generating this book with a long list of features not provided with the myheritage.com version. The full version of The Complete Genealogy Reporter can be purchased for $34.95, The Complete Genealogy Builder for $34.95 or as a bundle for $48.92.
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Do a community asset assessment. What skills and resources already exist in the community that can aid in the garden's creation? Contact local municipal planners about possible sites, as well as horticultural societies and other local sources of information and assistance. Look within your community for people with experience in landscaping and gardening. In Toronto contact the Toronto Community Garden Network.
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Some gardens "self-support" through membership dues, but for many, a sponsor is essential for donations of tools, seeds or money. Churches, schools, private businesses or parks and recreation departments are all possible supporters. One garden raised money by selling "square inches" at $5 each to hundreds of sponsors.
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Sniper Posts Pic of Child in Crosshairs
ABC News – Sniper Posts Pic of Child in Crosshairs (ABC News)
JERUSALEM – A photo posted online by an Israeli soldier showing a child in the crosshairs of a rifle scope has created a firestorm on the internet, drawing widespread criticism.
The photo was reportedly posted on Jan. 25 by Mor Ostrovski, 20, a member of an Israeli sniper unit. It shows crosshairs zeroed in on the back of the head of what appears to be a Palestinian boy in a village.
The photo has since been taken down and Ostrovski's account has been deactivated.
"There are no other images to suggest that the photographer actually fired at the person in the image in this case," wrote Palestinian activist Ali Abuminah who runs the site Electronic Intifada and drew much of the attention to the photo.
"The image is simply tasteless and dehumanizing. It embodies the idea that Palestinian children are targets."
Before the account was taken down, Abuminah posted other photos from Ostrovski's account that showed him in his olive green uniform holding a variety of weapons, including a sniper rifle.
Eytan Buchman, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, told ABC News that Ostrovski told his commander on Saturday that he had not taken the photo himself but that he'd taken it off the internet.
No disciplinary action will be taken.
"The picture in question does not coincide with IDF's values or code of ethics," the spokesman added in an e-mailed statement.
The uproar over the photo follows another posted by an Israeli infantryman on Facebook around a week ago.
In it, he mocked the four Palestinian prisoners he was guarding by posing bound and blindfolded next to them.
He was sentenced to 14 days detention after the brigade's commanders discovered the photo and ordered it taken down.
"Before the investigation began, it was discovered that the soldier was already judged by his commanders," Buchman said in a statement.
"Since the documented offense isn't criminal and since the legal procedure conducted by the soldier's commanding officer was found appropriate, a disciplinary action was decided to be sufficient."
The IDF is active on social networking, disseminating statements on Twitter and Facebook and photos on Flickr and Instagram.
But individual soldiers using social media have a history of getting the Israeli military into trouble.
In November, the head of the IDF spokesperson's social media unit landed in hot water after he posted a photo on Facebook with mud on his face, captioned "Obama style."
In 2010, a reservist named Eden Abergil sparked outrage after posting pictures with blindfolded Palestinian prisoners.
She told Israeli Army radio she didn't understood what she did wrong, but the IDF called the photos "shameful behavior."
By Alexander Marquardt | ABC News


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Chapter 31
A bell rang, some young men, ugly and impudent, and at the same time careful of the impression they were making, hurried by. Pyotr, too, crossed the room in his livery and top-boots, with his dull, animal face, and came up to her to take her to the train. Some noisy men were quiet as she passed them on the platform, and one whispered something about her to another-- something vile, no doubt. She stepped up on the high step, and sat down in a carriage by herself on a dirty seat that had been white. Her bag lay beside her, shaken up and down by the springiness of the seat. With a foolish smile Pyotr raised his hat, with its colored band, at the window, in token of farewell; an impudent conductor slammed the door and the latch. A grotesque-looking lady wearing a bustle (Anna mentally undressed the woman, and was appalled at her hideousness), and a little girl laughing affectedly ran down the platform.
"Katerina Andreevna, she's got them all, ma tante!" cried the girl.
"Even the child's hideous and affected," thought Anna. To avoid seeing anyone, she got up quickly and seated herself at the opposite window of the empty carriage. A misshapen-looking peasant covered with dirt, in a cap from which his tangled hair stuck out all round, passed by that window, stooping down to the carriage wheels. "There's something familiar about that hideous peasant," thought Anna. And remembering her dream, she moved away to the opposite door, shaking with terror. The conductor opened the door and let in a man and his wife.
"Do you wish to get out?"
Anna made no answer. The conductor and her two fellow-passengers did not notice under her veil her panic-stricken face. She went back to her corner and sat down. The couple seated themselves on the opposite side, and intently but surreptitiously scrutinized her clothes. Both husband and wife seemed repulsive to Anna. The husband asked, would she allow him to smoke, obviously not with a view to smoking but to getting into conversation with her. Receiving her assent, he said to his wife in French something about caring less to smoke than to talk. They made inane and affected remarks to one another, entirely for her benefit. Anna saw clearly that they were sick of each other, and hated each other. And no one could have helped hating such miserable monstrosities.
A second bell sounded, and was followed by moving of luggage, noise, shouting and laughter. It was so clear to Anna that there was nothing for anyone to be glad of, that this laughter irritated her agonizingly, and she would have liked to stop up her ears not to hear it. At last the third bell rang, there was a whistle and a hiss of steam, and a clank of chains, and the man in her carriage crossed himself. "It would be interesting to ask him what meaning he attaches to that," thought Anna, looking angrily at him. She looked past the lady out of the window at the people who seemed whirling by as they ran beside the train or stood on the platform. The train, jerking at regular intervals at the junctions of the rails, rolled by the platform, past a stone wall, a signal-box, past other trains; the wheels, moving more smoothly and evenly, resounded with a slight clang on the rails. The window was lighted up by the bright evening sun, and a slight breeze fluttered the curtain. Anna forgot her fellow passengers, and to the light swaying of the train she fell to thinking again, as she breathed the fresh air.
"Yes, what did I stop at? That I couldn't conceive a position in which life would not be a misery, that we are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?"
"That's what reason is given man for, to escape from what worries him," said the lady in French, lisping affectedly, and obviously pleased with her phrase.
The words seemed an answer to Anna's thoughts.
"To escape from what worries him," repeated Anna. And glancing at the red-checked husband and the thin wife, she saw that the sickly wife considered herself misunderstood, and the husband deceived her and encouraged her in that idea of herself. Anna seemed to see all their history and all the crannies of their souls, as it were turning a light upon them. But there was nothing interesting in them, and she pursued her thought.
"Yes, I'm very much worried, and that's what reason was given me for, to escape; so then one must escape: why not put out the light when there's nothing more to look at, when it's sickening to look at it all? But how? Why did the conductor run along the footboard, why are they shrieking, those young men in that train? why are they talking, why are they laughing? It's all falsehood, all lying, all humbug, all cruelty!..."
When the train came into the station, Anna got out into the crowd of passengers, and moving apart from them as if they were lepers, she stood on the platform, trying to think what she had come here for, and what she meant to do. Everything that had seemed to her possible before was now so difficult to consider, especially in this noisy crowd of hideous people who would not leave her alone. One moment porters ran up to her proffering their services, then young men, clacking their heels on the planks of the platform and talking loudly, stared at her; people meeting her dodged past on the wrong side. Remembering that she had meant to go on further if there were no answer, she stopped a porter and asked if her coachman were not here with a note from Count Vronsky.
"Count Vronsky? They sent up here from the Vronskys just this minute, to meet Princess Sorokina and her daughter. And what is the coachman like?"
Just as she was talking to the porter, the coachman Mihail, red and cheerful in his smart blue coat and chain, evidently proud of having so successfully performed his commission, came up to her and gave her a letter. She broke it open, and her heart ached before she had read it.
"I am very sorry your note did not reach me. I will be home at ten," Vronsky had written carelessly....
"Yes, that's what I expected!" she said to herself with an evil smile.
"Very good, you can go home then," she said softly, addressing Mihail. She spoke softly because the rapidity of her heart's beating hindered her breathing. "No, I won't let you make me miserable," she thought menacingly, addressing not him, not herself, but the power that made her suffer, and she walked along the platform.
Two maidservants walking along the platform turned their heads, staring at her and making some remarks about her dress. "Real," they said of the lace she was wearing. The young men would not leave her in peace. Again they passed by, peering into her face, and with a laugh shouting something in an unnatural voice. The station-master coming up asked her whether she was going by train. A boy selling kvas never took his eyes off her. "My God! where am I to go?" she thought, going farther and farther along the platform. At the end she stopped. Some ladies and children, who had come to meet a gentleman in spectacles, paused in their loud laughter and talking, and stared at her as she reached them. She quickened her pace and walked away from them to the edge of the platform. A luggage train was coming in. The platform began to sway, and she fancied she was in the train again.
And all at once she thought of the man crushed by the train the day she had first met Vronsky, and she knew what she had to do. With a rapid, light step she went down the steps that led from the tank to the rails and stopped quite near the approaching train.
She looked at the lower part of the carriages, at the screws and chains and the tall cast-iron wheel of the first carriage slowly moving up, and trying to measure the middle between the front and back wheels, and the very minute when that middle point would be opposite her.
"There," she said to herself, looking into the shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust which covered the sleepers-- "there, in the very middle, and I will punish him and escape from everyone and from myself."
She tried to fling herself below the wheels of the first carriage as it reached her; but the red bag which she tried to drop out of her hand delayed her, and she was too late; she missed the moment. She had to wait for the next carriage. A feeling such as she had known when about to take the first plunge in bathing came upon her, and she crossed herself. That familiar gesture brought back into her soul a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and suddenly the darkness that had covered everything for her was torn apart, and life rose up before her for an instant with all its bright past joys. But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second carriage. And exactly at the moment when the space between the wheels came opposite her, she dropped the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the carriage, and lightly, as though she would rise again at once, dropped on to her knees. And at the same instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. "Where am I? What am I doing? What for?" she tried to get up, to drop backwards; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and rolled her on her back. "Lord, forgive me all!" she said, feeling it impossible to struggle. A peasant muttering something was working at the iron above her. And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
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May 31, 2008
Great Vial Experiment Appears to be a Bust
3 comments:
- Scott S said...
I have no doubt that is true; the insulin you have just bought was likley manufactured over 12 months ago at Novo's plant in Denmark (they only make Novolin in North Carolina, although they were reportedly going to begin production of Novolog there as well) but Levemir is still new and not yet reached critical mass in terms of sales in North America. However, as Allie Beatty reported, the content of preservatives in insulin sold today is toxic to small animals, so one really must wonder whether its really safe for humans, too!
- 4:31 PM, May 31, 2008
- Anne said...
I know you were disappointed the experiment did not work. Is it the air that causes the insulin to lose potency?
- 6:52 PM, May 31, 2008
- Jenny said...
Beats me what the problem was. It may have something to do with the seal on the vial, which is butyl.
One huge problem was that the seal is very thick and pushing the needle through it dulled it, making it painful to inject with it.
But what exactly was causing it to go bad is hard to say. It lost its clarity which you could see by shining a bright light through it.
- 7:49 PM, May 31, 2008


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Adventures in Eating: Lamb (or Beef) Stew with Dill
I am excited about this month's recipe, you see I never get to write them, I just test them before I show them to you. This month, however, I gave our two food editors the month off and set out to complement our imported red wine of the month with an appropriate meal. The wine… read more »


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You would be forgiven if you thought jailbreaking was dead. There hadn't been a good, untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 running the current version of the iOS operating system for some time. But this week's launch of the new "evasi0n" jailbreak demonstrates the pent-up demand in the jailbreak community for a new release. Immediately upon its debut, traffic to evasi0n.com flared, and the jailbreak app store Cydia became nearly unusable due to the huge influx of users.
By some early reports, the jailbreak had sent Cydia usage to 1.7 million times the day after its release. Now that number is much higher – over 4 million jailbreakers have used Cydia since evasi0n's launch, according to Jay Freeman, the jailbreak app store's creator.
That's impressive, but still short of the 22.8 million total unique devices running Cydia during the two months prior to evasi0n's launch. Of course, all these numbers also include many older iOS devices, such as iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch devices and Apple TVs, not all of which are capable of running iOS 6 or using the new evasi0n jailbreak. (Evasi0n doesn't support the current Apple TV, for example).
But that's not to say that the jailbreak hasn't hit. And hit hard.
Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder at CloudFlare, the content delivery network (CDN) and security service tasked with managing evasi0n.com's load, said that CloudFlare delivered 2.9 million pageviews at its peak, per hour for evasi0n.com. Traffic had been building up all week and topped off around 8:15 AM PST Monday. CloudFlare also saw 27,952,010 requests to the site, and approximately 960,000 Megabits of traffic per hour during its peak period.
Prince said that there were 121,191,058 requests to evasi0n.com over the last week, and CloudFlare handled 81 percent of them, saving the site a total of 98 percent of the 1.2 terabytes of bandwidth it would have otherwise had to have served itself. "The net effect was that evasi0n.com could survive a very large surge in traffic without having to build up its own expensive infrastructure," he explains, touting the CloudFlare service.
It's interesting that CloudFlare had even been watching evasi0n – the company doesn't typically notice all the sites that come under its watch, given that it now sees 3,000 sign-ups per day. But evasi0n was one of the few that jumped out at them due to the denial-of-service attacks it faced. The first actually began before the jailbreak's release. On January 31st, afternoon PT, news of evasi0n's forthcoming launch started making the rounds on Twitter, sending a large number of users to the site at once, effectively putting it under attack.
The second, larger denial-of-service attack, came courtesy of actual attackers, not enthusiastic jailbreakers, and it took place in the middle of evasi0n's peak traffic period. This type of attack is known as a SYN-flood, and it's meant to overwhelm the network resources of unprotected websites. "This is becoming an increasing pattern that we see where, when a site starts to get popular, attackers will launch attacks to knock it offline when the sites' servers are already struggling," Prince explains.
Cydia Crashes During Day One
Cydia, however, didn't fare quite as well under the onslaught of new users. On the day of the release, Freeman began sharing charts of the traffic spike, which saw 14,000 hits per second during the first afternoon of evasi0n's release.
Given that Cydia was mostly down during the jailbreak's launch, using app sales data to get a window into the impact of the jailbreak doesn't make sense in this case. (Freeman even told us that one developer had joked that he hadn't expected the new jailbreak to cause his paid app sales to go down!)
Instead of sales, Freeman offered data from Google Analytics. The date range on the below charts is February 4 through 6, but the data reflects the 4th only. (The charts don't update that often, he says). Here you can see the spike, and the 2.3 million uniques it sent during day one.
But Freeman isn't entirely sold on the Google Analytics data, saying that he's not certain of the 2+ million uniques because of the way Google measures things, as well as its general slowness to update. He is, however, confident that there were over 4 million unique devices using Cydia as of 11 PM last night.
That number, remember, includes devices not associated with the evasi0n jailbreak, though. And it also includes devices running the earlier popular jailbreak redsn0w, who are now "converting" to evasi0n. Freeman also explained that due to Cydia's downtime during the launch, some devices may not have been counted.
Still, 4 million is a solid figure. "That is many more than I normally have been seeing recently, but not as many as I would have expected," says Freeman. "That said, again, that number is a failure, as I was pretty much just offline for most of the initial wave on the 4th."
Earlier this morning, official evasi0n.com stats came out, saying that the site had seen 5 million uniques, and 40 million pageviews.
One of the jailbreakers, @Pod2G, even later broke figures down by country after getting a lot of requests for region-specific data. China beat out the U.S. by a few hundred thousand visitors, the chart shows – this, despite reports that jailbreaking in China was on the downturn. Perhaps the Chinese, like the rest of the world, was just in need of a decent jailbreak.
Repos Break Records
Another way to gain insight into how big of a deal this current jailbreak is, is to look at the repositories (repos) that host the jailbreak applications users find while browsing Cydia. Some of the most popular of these include BigBoss, ModMyi, ZodTTD, and MacCiti, for example.
ZodTTD, which offers video game emulators, themes, and other apps ported to iOS, had seen steadily decreasing traffic due to a lack of a current, untethered jailbreak before evasi0n's release. "On the day of the evasi0n jailbreak release, traffic increased over 1,000 percent," the operator, who asked to just go by ZodTTD, tells us. "While I don't have specific download counts sorted out just yet, terabytes of packages were downloaded from my repo on launch day.
"This was a significant showing for a jailbreak release," he adds.
Kyle Matthews of ModMyi, the largest jailbreaking community on the Internet, meanwhile, just had a record-breaking day. Matthews says his repo saw triple the average number of visitors, and quintuple its average number of pageviews, following evasi0n's release.
"Yesterday, specifically, we hit a traffic record for us, over 685,000 visits. Our previous record was 645,000," he says. ModMyi also set a record for online simultaneous users specifically on its website (that is, not the repo, just the forums and news sections) of 20,073. The previous record was 15,002.
Below, you can see evasi0n's impact in a tale of two charts. The first shows average traffic for a Sunday through Tuesday in January, pre-evasi0n. That one shows 475,000 visits, 338,000 uniques, and 1.5 million pageviews over those days.
The second is after evasi0n, again Sunday through Tuesday (noon ET). Now it has climbed to 1.7 million visits, around 900,000 uniques, and 7 million pageviews.
Michael Babiy runs the theme-heavy MacCiti repo, which currently hosts around 3,500 themes and other pieces of artwork from hundreds of artists. The second day after the jailbreak release (around 17 hours into day two), MacCiti saw 950,446 pageviews, which tops the last significant traffic increase the site saw back in May 2012, when Absinthe 2.0 debuted. That time, pageviews peaked at 680,000 per day. "I wouldn't be surprised to see our daily visits double from the previous release," says Babiy, of evasi0n's impact.
Numbers are still rolling in, of course, but the reports here are enough to put the argument to bed that no one cares about jailbreaking their iOS devices any more. There's still a core crowd of users who obviously do care, and who will jailbreak the minute the software becomes available.
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