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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 23, 2008) - The ETSU softball team received strong outings from Ashley Boyd (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Darci Gilbert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) in the circle, and the Lady Bucs as a team provided some explosive offense en route to its sixth sweep of the season Wednesday afternoon from Metro-Kiwanis Park. The Softball Bucs defeated
With the sweep, ETSU closed out the home slate winning six of its last eight games and move to 26-29 on the year. The Catamounts - who entered the day on a positive note - dropped to 15-33 overall.
After Boyd received some defensive help in the top of first, the Lady Bucs attacked in the bottom of the inning to grab a 1-0 lead in game one. Boyd put the first two Catamount batters aboard, but she induced Amber Hawkins to line into a double play at short and retired the inning when Beth Hauser flied out to center. The birthday girl Katy Jett (
ETSU added to its lead in the second when Jessie Hackworth (
The scoring spree continued in the third as Jett scored for the second time of the game, and put ETSU ahead, 3-0. Like the first inning, Jett led off with a single to left and instantly stole second - which gave a Lady Buccaneer a chance to bring her home. That is exactly what Trisha Massezno (Russellville,
Boyd cruised through the second and third innings, but faced a little road block in the fourth. The right-hander retired the first two Catamount hitters, but after surrendering back-to-back singles; Boyd settled in and froze Lauren Ross for the final out of the inning.
The Lady Buccaneers tacked on a couple runs in the sixth to grab a 5-0 advantage. Katie Henderson (Jackson,
The Catamounts broke up Boyd's shutout bid in the seventh on Lauren Ross' solo home run to left-center. However, the
Boyd tossed her eighth complete game of the year after allowing one run on eight hits; while striking out six and did not issue a walk. Ross saw her mark fall to 7-16 after lasting only three innings and surrendered three runs (two earned) on seven hits.
ETSU capped off the sweep by pounding out 11 hits in game two as every Lady Buccaneer player reached base.
The Softball Bucs scored three more times in the third thanks to five hits in the frame. All five of those hits came in consecutive form of singles as Vicki McCoy, Briana Knight (Brier,
Gilbert did an excellent job holding the visitors scoreless from the third through the sixth innings, and Massenzo's solo shot in the fifth gave the Murfreesboro native a four-run cushion, 5-1. Massenzo's blast over the right-center fence was her team-leading sixth bomb of the season.
The Catamounts rallied for two runs on five hits in the top of the seventh, but Gilbert struck out McDonagh with the bases loaded to end the game, marking her first win since March 20.
With the win, Gilbert moved her record to 4-8 on the year; while Tating suffered her eighth loss of the season. Gilbert allowed three runs (two earned) on 11 hits, but struck out a season-high six and only walked one.
As a team, the Lady Bucs hit .382 (21-for-55) on the day and 20 of those 21 hits were singles. Jessie Hackworth, Kate Powell, and Trisha Massenzo combined to go 10-for-17 (.588) with five runs scored and five RBI. Hackworth finished 4-for-6 with three runs scored, Powell was 3-for-5 with an RBI and Massenzo was 3-for-6 with three RBIs and two runs scored. In total, every Lady Buccaneer player tallied a hit on the day.
ETSU closes out its regular season schedule with two critical conference doubleheaders this weekend. The Lady Bucs begin play with Mercer Friday night at 5 p.m. from Sikes Field in
For more information on Lady Buccaneer softball, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.

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Lately I've been programming in Go. I started by writing a few popular Unix tools in Go, before moving on to a lexer that supports structural regular expressions and UTF-8.
Unicode support was easy to add because Go lives and breathes UTF-8. But why did the Go designers favour UTF-8, and not UTF-16? Widespread software such as Windows, Java, and Python use UTF-16 internally, so why not Go?
Further reading revealed the answer. UTF-16 is a historical accident that persists mainly due to inertia. UTF-16 has no practical advantages over UTF-8, and it is worse in some ways. The Go designers knew what they were doing, so they chose UTF-8.
Down with UTF-16
Before, from vague hunches, I had thought that UTF-16 was simpler because each character took exactly 2 bytes (so it handled only a strict subset of Unicode), and that UTF-16 was more compact for certain languages.
The first statement is patently false. UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding, and hence not much simpler than UTF-8. As for the second: consider HTML. The amount of whitespace and tags in a typical document is high enough that UTF-8 is more compact than UTF-16. This generalizes to other formats, such as Go source code.
So there's no upside. But there are plenty of downsides to UTF-16:
We must worry about byte ordering because UTF-16 deals with 16 bits at a time. A related drawback is the loss of self-synchronization at the byte level.
We lose backwards compatibility with ASCII.
We lose backwards compatibility with code treating NUL as a string terminator.
We cannot losslessly convert from byte streams.
The encoding is inflexible: hopefully 0x110000 code points should be enough, but if it were extended (again), UTF-16 would need major surgery. In contrast, by simply allowing up to 6 bytes, UTF-8 can handle up to 231 code points.
Ugly encoding: it's the reason why U+D800 to U+DFFF is reserved (though thankfully UTF-16 is self-synchronizing with 16-bit granularity).
I tired of thinking about the drawbacks of UTF-16, but there are likely more. Thus even if we only worked with a strange set of documents where UTF-16 is more efficient, the savings are too small to justify the complexity.
A living dead standard
How did so many projects settle on such a horrible standard? It's a sad story. The original Unicode supported exactly 0x10000 code points, making UCS-2 (the precursor to UTF-16) attractive. Each character neatly corresponded to one 16-bit word. Although UTF-8 might still be preferable thanks to byte ordering and ASCII compatibility, UCS-2 is certifiably sane. People built systems based on UCS-2, and rejoiced that the codepage Stone Age was over.
Then an unnatural disaster struck: the Unicode Consortium decided more code points were needed. The supple UTF-8 got away unscathed, but there's no way to squeeze more than 16 bits into UCS-2. Apart from abandoning UCS-2, the only recourse was to reserve a chunk of values for encoding the higher code points. Thus UTF-16 was born. Hopefully, developers could simply tweak masses of existing UCS-2 code for the new standard. Sadly, various UTF-16 bugs suggest that much code remains unaware UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding.
Despite the trauma it would cause, they should have killed UCS-2 when they had the chance. Now we have a grotesque encoding scheme that shambles alongside UTF-8.
Gauss was here
According to Wikipedia, UTF-8 was built on ASCII by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. ASCII was developed from telegraph codes by a committee. The telegraph codes stemmed from a Western Union code, which evolved from a code by Donald Murray, who modified a 5-bit code invented by Émile Baudot, who based his work on a code designed by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber. It's awe-inspiring that the Prince of Mathematicians was involved. And if he were alive today, I bet he'd disparage UTF-16!


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced new safeguards to limit the new coronavirus exposure risks to two of its most susceptible patients: nursing home residents and spinal-cord injury patients.
Starting March 10 until further notice, all 134 VA nursing homes across the country, housing more than 41,000 veterans, will not allow any outside visitors to see residents.
The only exception will be in compassionate cases where a veteran is in their last stages of life on hospice units. In those specific cases, visitors will be limited to the veteran's room only.
The announcement included suspending new admissions into nursing homes. Veterans Affairs nursing homes will continue to welcome resident transfers from VA facilities, once medical personnel have determined patients are not at risk for infection from COVID-19 or transmitting COVID-19.
The VA said nursing home staff will also be actively screened daily for the new coronavirus and dedicated to working at Community Living Centers.
"While the COVID-19 risk to average Americans remains low, these commonsense measures will help protect some of our most vulnerable patients," said Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie. "VA will make every effort to minimize the impact of these policies on Veterans while putting patient safety first."
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The Minister for Communications has said Cabinet ministers did not know about the emergence of information on recording phone calls in garda stations ahead of the contact between the Secretary General at the Department of Justice and the former garda commissioner on Monday.
It follows reports that the secretary general told former commissioner Martin Callinan, when he called to his home on Monday night, that there was disquiet at Cabinet level about the information given to the Taoiseach over the weekend by the Attorney General.
Speaking on RTÉ's News At One, Pat Rabbitte rejected suggestions that there were differences of opinion around the Cabinet table before that contact.
He said only Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter were aware at that stage about the information regarding the recordings.
He said the first he and the remaining Cabinet ministers knew about it was at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.
The minister said Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore first heard about it at a pre-Cabinet meeting that morning.
Asked about why it had taken so long for information about the recordings to get to the right people, Mr Rabbitte said information regarding a particular litigation file on the civil side had been the subject of discussions between people in the Attorney General's Office, people in the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána.
However, he said there was no knowledge and clarity at that stage that the capturing of telephone exchanges was going on wider than in that particular case.
Mr Rabbitte said he would have expected that management in the force at a much lower level than the garda commissioner, including chief superintendents in the regions, must have known about the practice.
He said the Commission of Inquiry would establish if successive garda commissioners had known about the practice of recording phone calls.
A spokesman for former minister for justice Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has said she "was not aware" of widespread recordings of phone calls by members of the public to garda stations when she was minister in the 1990s.
"If the question is, was she aware of random, large-scale tapings of conversations, then no, she was not aware," spokesman Michael Jennings said.
He said the extract from a Dail reply quoting Mrs Geoghegan-Quinn from 3 February 1994, posted on a social media site by Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty, referred to a specific case in which there was operational justification for the recording of a phone call.
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said she had no previous knowledge of the arrangements surrounding Mr Callinan's resignation and believed she was not alone in hearing about the matter for the first time during Tuesday's Cabinet meeting.
She also said she had confidence in Minister Shatter and felt he had answered all the questions asked of him in his statement to the Dáil yesterday.
Minister Burton said she was "very satisfied" with how Mr Shatter had withdrawn his comments about whistleblowers and apologised in the Dáil.
Last night in the Dáil Alan Shatter said he was with the Taoiseach on Monday night when the Secretary General of the Department of Justice was asked to visit former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan that evening.
He said: "I was present with the Taoiseach and the Attorney General at the meeting that took place in the Taoiseach's department on Monday evening.
"The Taoiseach's Secretary General, the Secretary General to the Government Martin Fraser was present.
"And at a later point we were joined by the Secretary General of my department and the concerns around this issue were discussed in great detail and matters relating to it and the Secretary General from my Department, he wasn't dispatched, I think was the phrase used, he was asked to discuss matters with the Garda Commissioner and he did so that evening and I can't add to that any further.
"He was asked to discuss the issue that had arisen in relation to the tapes that has been found, the nature of the recordings and the serious implications of what had become known for An Garda Síochána".
Govt concerned over impact of garda recordings
The Taoiseach has said he is concerned that the garda phone recordings may have implications for both court cases and tribunals.
Speaking in Leixlip in Co Kildare at the confirmation of a €5bn upgrade of the Intel campus, Mr Kenny said it is a very serious matter and that is why the Commission of Inquiry has been set up.
He said he does not know the scale of the contents of the recordings yet, but said defence lawyers will have a massive interest in these revelations.
The first court adjournment took place yesterday, he added.
The Taoiseach also said Mr Callinan made his own decision to resign.
Mr Kenny said he asked a senior civil servant to make the former commissioner aware of his feelings about the gravity of the issue.
Yesterday, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said the Taoiseach had effectively "sacked" Mr Callinan, after it emerged he sent a senior civil servant to see him the day before he announced his retirement.
Also speaking in Leixlip today, Mr Gilmore said the taping of conversations is a very serious matter and there could be a possible impact on court cases.
Mr Gilmore said the full facts need to be established and that is why the inquiry has been set up.
He said work is being carried out at the moment on the terms of reference for that investigation.
The Government announced that it is to set up the statutory Commission of Inquiry, after learning that a system was in place in a large number of garda stations, whereby incoming and outgoing telephone calls were taped and recorded.
It emerged today that Mr Callinan delayed withdrawing his use of the word "disgusting" to describe the behaviour of the two garda whistleblowers following advice from Department of Justice officials.
High Court President advises judges
Separately, High Court President Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns has communicated with judges dealing with criminal matters and has given them some guidance and advice in relation to the current situation.
It is understood that at an early stage in the trial process in the Central Criminal Court and Special Criminal Courts, the parties will be asked if they have any issues of concern relating to the allegations of the taping of phone calls in garda stations.
It would be a matter primarily for the Director of Public Prosecutions to identify if there are any issues arising.
The defence could make an application to have proceedings adjourned or any other application at that stage.
Independent TD, Shane Ross has this evening written to the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee to request that the tendering process in 2007 for the supply, delivery and maintenance of digital recording systems for An Garda Síochána should be examined by the committee.
In his letter, Deputy Ross said the committee should examine whether the service procured offered value for money and if the Department of Justice was spending part of its budget on a service that may have been operating illegally.
He has also suggested to the committee chairman that they should call the top officials in the Department of Justice and senior gardaí as witnesses.
Earlier, Mr Ross said the PAC had a duty where there was a Government contract to find out the circumstances in which it was granted and whether or not the public was getting value for money.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Ross also said TDs had a public duty to find out what had happened in relation to the recording of phone calls at garda stations.
It did not appear that the Government had a great appetite for inquiring into the circumstances in which this happened, and someone would have to do it, he added.
Mr Ross said the consequences of the revelations surrounding the recording of calls were "absolutely staggering".
He said the Commission of Inquiry's terms of reference had not been set yet, and we did not know what they would inquire into.
However, he added that TDs could not wait for the inquiry as he said that could take years.
Issue goes beyond data protection
The Data Protection Commissioner has said the issues surrounding the recording of calls to garda stations goes "way beyond data protection" and relates to having a fair court hearing.
Speaking on RTÉ's News At One, Billy Hawkes said he did not tell former Mr Callinan to delete what was on the tapes.
He said the "orthodox data protection advice" would be to delete data when there is no longer a reason to retain it.
However, he said data from public bodies cannot be deleted without the approval of the Director of the National Archives.
Mr Hawkes said he had received a letter from the former garda commissioner on 19 March seeking urgent advice about what to do with the recordings from garda stations.
He said he informed Mr Callinan that An Garda Síochána would need to develop a proper policy on the retention of personal data, which would apply to these tapes, and agree it with the Director of the National Archives.
To date the National Archives has not been approached or asked what should be done with recordings of telephone calls at garda stations.


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There are regularly Code-Aster-Courses in Germany, offered and organized
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Introduction to SALOME and CODE-ASTER, 4-days
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The most common element types and Load and Boundary conditions of
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During the month of July our regular Sunday morning Adult Fellowship Groups go on hiatus to give opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of teaching options across campus. These are the various teachings recorded in July 2019.
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Proclamando a Cristo crucificado
Searching for a Biblical Antidote to this Cultural Moment Pt. 1
Por qué es importante la carta a los Tesalonicenses
How the Whole Church Evangelizes Together
"Strange Fire" Six Years Later
Consistent Communion with God
An exposition of Psalm 90
A Biographical Portrait of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
El ministerio y legado del reformador
La Biblia, el Espíritu y la santificación
Searching for a Biblical Antidote to this Cultural Moment
Christians and Voting
How to Deal with Death
El contentamiento en la vida cristiana
¿Cuál es la diferencia?
The Christian's Conduct in a Hostile World
Thinking Biblically About Technology, Social Media, and Your Kids
Grace-based Living
The Humbling of Nebuchadnezzar
Baptism and Membership in the Local Church
How to Make Better Applications When Reading Your Bible
Making Sense of Suffering
Preparing Now to Parent Adult Children
Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
The Pessimism of Ecclesiastes
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Thus from a mixture of all kinds began,
That het'rogeneous thing, an Englishman:
In eager rapes, and furious lust begot,
Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot.
Whose gend'ring off-spring quickly learn'd to bow,
And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough:
From whence a mongrel half-bred race there came,
With neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame.
In whose hot veins new mixtures quickly ran,
Infus'd betwixt a Saxon and a Dane.
While their rank daughters, to their parents just,
Receiv'd all nations with promiscuous lust.
This nauseous brood directly did contain
The well-extracted blood of Englishmen.
Which medly canton'd in a heptarchy,
A rhapsody of nations to supply,
Among themselves maintain'd eternal wars,
And still the ladies lov'd the conquerors.
The western Angles all the rest subdu'd;
A bloody nation, barbarous and rude:
Who by the tenure of the sword possest
One part of Britain, and subdu'd the rest
And as great things denominate the small,
The conqu'ring part gave title to the whole.
The Scot, Pict, Britain, Roman, Dane, submit,
And with the English-Saxon all unite:
And these the mixture have so close pursu'd,
The very name and memory's subdu'd:
No Roman now, no Britain does remain;
Wales strove to separate, but strove in vain:
The silent nations undistinguish'd fall,
And Englishman's the common name for all.
Fate jumbled them together, God knows how;
What e'er they were they're true-born English now.
The wonder which remains is at our pride,
To value that which all wise men deride.
For Englishmen to boast of generation,
Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.
A true-born Englishman's a contradiction,
In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.
A banter made to be a test of fools,
Which those that use it justly ridicules.
A metaphor invented to express
A man a-kin to all the universe.
For as the Scots, as learned men ha' said,
Throughout the world their wand'ring seed ha' spread;
So open-handed England, 'tis believ'd,
Has all the gleanings of the world receiv'd.
Some think of England 'twas our Saviour meant,
The Gospel should to all the world be sent:
Since, when the blessed sound did hither reach,
They to all nations might be said to preach.
'Tis well that virtue gives nobility,
How shall we else the want of birth and blood supply?
Since scarce one family is left alive,
Which does not from some foreigner derive.
The True-Born Englishman was published around 2 December 1700, as a response to the xenophobia increasing during the period, specifically in the months after John Tutchin's Foreigners appeared (published anonymously in 1700).
Defoe claimed he had printed nine editions, there were twelve editions "by other Hands," and eighty thousand pirated copies had been sold on the streets.


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To the Editor,
The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training through agricultural education to 540,379 student members in grades seven through 12 who belong to one of 7,489 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
This summer, for seven weeks, more than 2,200 students will attend our Washington Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. This seven-week event helps students develop leadership skills, identify personal strengths, develop awareness of societal differences and human needs and strategize how they can help others through community service. Each student develops a community-service initiative for their local community, with the intention of students returning home and implementing their plans.
Students come to the conference wanting to learn how to make a difference in the world. They leave knowing they can - and will. That's exactly what Sierra Coulthard did last year.
After last year's event, the Wisconsin high school FFA member returned home and immediately connected with Nashville-based Soles4Souls, which since 2005 has secured more than 17 million new and gently used shoes for people throughout the world. The charity shipped her a supply of shoe boxes that she placed throughout her home town of Neillsville for donations. Nearly 1,000 pairs of shoes were given to the "Sierra's Shoes" drive.
And last month, Coulthard had the opportunity to personally deliver shoes to deserving children in Haiti.
I believe students are generally aware of global problems like hunger and poverty but many are sheltered and disconnected from what's happening in the world. During their time at our conference, FFA members experience real-world problems and take critical steps toward personal growth and developing leadership skills they'll need to make a difference in people's lives, starting in their own communities.
The conclusion of each weekly session of the Washington Leadership Conference is a Day of Service, where students work together on a real, hands-on community-service project. Last year, through each week's Day of Service, students contributed a total of $85,283 worth of volunteer labor. Students packed, sorted and distributed more than 29.5 tons of produce and shipped more than 100,000 meals overseas. This year, FFA members will volunteer more than 9,500 hours to pack and ship thousands of meals to Nicaragua to help the third-world country battle hunger.
Today's FFA is thriving and deeply committed, through opportunities like the Washington Leadership Conference, to developing students' potential and become leaders in our country's No. 1 industry - agriculture.
- W. Dwight Armstrong, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
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By Rory Carroll
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown and Mexican environmental officials signed a pact on Monday aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an agreement that could eventually expand the market for carbon credits.
The six-page memorandum of understanding calls for cooperation in developing carbon pricing systems and calls on the partners to explore ways to align those systems in the future.
"California can't do it alone and with this new partnership with Mexico, we can make real progress on reducing dangerous greenhouse gases," said Governor Brown.
California operates a carbon cap-and-trade system, which sets a hard limit on the carbon output from large businesses and requires them to either reduce emissions or purchase credits to meet the target. The state is on track to meet its goal of 1990 emissions levels by 2020.
California plans to link its nearly two-year-old market with a similar effort in the Canadian province of Quebec, but officials are eager to expand its reach further to keep carbon prices stable and enhance the program's environmental impact.
Mexico is the world's 11th largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with electricity generation accounting for the largest share of output, followed by transportation and industry.
In June 2012, then-President Felipe Calderon signed into law a goal to cut Mexico's emissions 30 percent by 2020 from projected business-as-usual levels. Lawmakers are considering implementing a carbon tax to help achieve the goal.
"Mexico and California have a long and rich history of environmental cooperation, and recognize each other as strategic partners in coping with climate change challenges and protecting and preserving our natural resources," said Rodolfo Lacy, undersecretary of Mexico's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
The agreement, which came on the first full day of Brown's trade and investment mission to Mexico, also called for collaboration on fire emergency response along the shared 136-mile border, improving air quality, and strengthening fuel efficiency in vehicles, including trucks carrying freight.
Last year, the Brown Administration signed similar agreements with the governments of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. None of those partners have yet implemented a law putting a price on carbon.
The administration also signed a pact with the leader of China's National Development and Reform Commission that called for sharing information related to carbon trading, the first time China signed such an agreement with a U.S. state.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll; Editing by David Gregorio)


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Channel Nine's Karl Stefanovic in cash-for-comment scandal defending Malcom Turnbull's $444 million fraud
by Shane Dowling– www.kangaroocourtsaustralia.com
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in the fight of his life trying to justify his fraudulent awarding of a $444 million grant to the Liberal Party aligned and mining industry backed Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Nine's Karl Stefanovic has come to Turnbull's defence on Twitter defending the deal while knowingly concealing that the Great Barrier Reef Foundation is a sponsor of Channel 9.
The problem is that the deal it totally indefensible as all protocols were broken which makes Karl Stefanovic's cash-for-comment routine blatantly obvious. It also raises issues with Nine's planned merger with Fairfax Media which I will deal with later but firstly some of the background and Stefanovic's grubby cash-for-comment Tweet.
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Susan Dominus Is The Best
The New York Times is home to many of America's most annoying columnists: Mustachioed metaphor-mixer Tom Friedman; nature-gazing space-waster Verlyn Klinkenborg; unnecessary pop-politico nickname-giver Maureen Dowd. The paper's best columnist—against all odds!—is in the Metro section.
Susan Dominus writes the "Big City" column—the type of color-heavy, feature-y, slice-of-New-York-life column that has an infinite capacity for luring writers to their doom. Many, rewarded with a similar gig, have hung themselves on their own twee-ness. But not Susan Dominus! I can't explain exactly how she's avoided this trap, since writing—for example—stories about people you meet in the subway and how their adorably ignorant actions are indicative of some larger societal trend is almost guaranteed to make you, the New York Times columnist, sound like an asshole. But Susan Dominus, somehow, does not.
It was just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday, and I was catching up on the day's newspapers when someone else in my train car, a lank-haired teenager, looked up from his cellphone and called over to me. ''Excuse me,'' he said. ''Does it say anything in that newspaper about Michael Jackson dying?''
His friend had just texted him the news. I was not sure what to mourn first: the death of the King of Pop or of newsprint, a medium so unfamiliar to this 19-year-old that he seemed to think it could materialize in an instant to meet hot news. And why wouldn't he think that? All his other news sources could.
Perhaps it is the deprecation of print that pulls it off? Who knows? It's probably because Susan Dominus is not overly old and rich, and shares our own sexy taste (she used to be editor of Nerve.com). She retains the ability—common to all the best metro columnists, though usually absent at the NYT—to seek out people who repulse us for one idle reason or another, and allow them to hang themselves with quotes. She wrote the definitive takedown of New York's worst Food Nazi mom. She was admirably harsh on the bottom-dwelling Albany boys club. She talked shit about Caroline Kennedy.
No, we don't agree with Susan Dominus all the time. But we're willing to forgive her, unlike her some of her more famous mustachioed peers. Anybody who can do the "Ride along with an immigrant cabbie on his first day on the job" or "The sun is out, watch as the city springs to life" pieces without making us gag is a little bit of magic. All metro color columnists sooner or later end up writing the types of man-on-the-street stories beloved by first-year J-School students ("What wisdom a shoeshine man must possess!"), but very few can do it without sounding like first-year J-School students with 20 years of hack work in their pockets.
She also writes lots of pieces we are able to steal, for our blog here.
Susan Dominus, we salute you. If they ever promote you to the Op-Ed page, try not to start sucking.


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The release of a new browser these days is more likely to elicit yawns than zeal, but Amazon changed that with the release of Silk for its new Fire tablet. While the fundamental idea of splitting a browser's functions between a mobile device and the cloud has been tried by others, most notably Opera, the Internet's largest retailer has taken that idea to a new scale.
Giving Silk that kind of dual personality has many benefits, but there are some drawbacks, too. Here are some pros and cons about the browser.
Because much of the work of rendering web pages is done in the cloud, Silk can perform faster than your typical mobile browser. With some web pages requiring access to multiple domains and downloading of hundreds of files, handing that task off to the much more powerful computers in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) frees up computing resources and bandwidth that would otherwise be consumed locally on your tablet.
Rendering pages in the cloud also allows the size of the browser cache on the Fire to be reduced. That saves storage space, always a good idea on mobile devices which typically have storage constraints.
Silk keeps its connection to Amazon's cloud always open. That reduces latency — the time lag between issuing a command and a function being completed — when you launch the browser and begin surfing the web.
Tying Silk to the cloud also allows Amazon to use its predictive technologies to guess what web pages you'll be asking for before you ask for them. That can speed up performance, too.
Having Amazon's cloud acting as a middleman between a user and the Internet raises obvious questions about privacy. If you worry about Facebook tracking your activity on any web page containing a "like" button, your anxiety levels should skyrocket at the prospect of Amazon tracking your every move on the Web. Amazon says the information it gathers will be kept anonymous, but are you willing to gamble that it will remain anonymous when some government agency, either domestic or foreign, or some lawyer with a discovery order shows up on Amazon's doorstep demanding to look at the data?
Security is also an issue in Silk. Because you're always interacting with Amazon's cloud, you're never directly interacting with secure websites. So when you log into your bank, for example, that information is given to Amazon, which conveys it to your financial institution. Do you really want Amazon sitting between you and your money?
To Amazon's credit, it allows you to turn off Silk's cloud features and use it like a typical browser. That would address the privacy and security problems that could arise from using the software, but then you'll lose all the advantages of processing browser activity in the cloud.
Another problem with not receiving content directly from a website is that you don't know how long it took Amazon to configure the content it sends to you, or, in the case of cached pages, how long they may have been sitting in the cloud. In addition, there may be times when you don't want compressed content from a website. You may want the 3MB photo served up by the site and not the 30KB version EC2 sends to you.
Finally, proliferation of the Silk approach to browsing could pose problems for all web surfers in the future. If major browser makers with cloud clout decide to adopt the Silk model, not only will Amazon know your every move on the Web, but so will Google, Apple and Microsoft.
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Anwar Sadat, nephew of the assassinated president, talks to Robert Fisk about a 'savage' Egypt – and why it needs help
It's not every day you get to ask Anwar Sadat about the fall of Mohamed Morsi.
But the nephew of the Egyptian president assassinated by Islamists in 1981 – who does, by the way, look rather like his late uncle as well as sharing his name – is an eloquent, tolerant member of the old Egyptian parliament, a 52-year-old head of an NGO who was just leaving his Heliopolis office on grim business: to pay his condolences to the families of 22 of the 26 police cadets murdered in Sinai this week. All 22 were his constituents.
But, Anwar Sadat says, Morsi had to go. Had he remained in power for another year, "we would have had another hundred years of the Brotherhood in power". Yet the problem now, he says, is that Egypt needs a political solution. "The security solution is only something temporary. The people are just saying 'these are terrorists' about the Brotherhood and are putting pressure on the government. The media are all in one direction and this does not help. This makes life difficult for people who want to come up with compromise and flexibility. In Egypt, we have to learn to live together. People are going crazy about these people in the Brotherhood…."
And then Anwar Sadat, the president of the tiny Reform and Development Party – right-of-centre, if you can use that expression in Egyptian politics – says something very unexpected. "Real democracy in this part of the world doesn't really fit. We need awareness, education, to make people understand all our values. We Egyptians talk of all this civilisation we have had for 7,000 years. But we have buried all that our fathers did. We cannot even come to an understanding of what we really want."
But there are other unexpected moments. It was the first time I had heard, for example, that the uncle of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi – the man who chucked Morsi and the Brotherhood from power last month – was himself in the Brotherhood in the 1950s and spent time in Nasser's jails. Indeed, that same uncle was a close colleague of Mohamed Badie, the world leader of the Brotherhood whom General Sisi has just locked up.
"Sisi was willing to go on if the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies would show compromise. You know, he was under severe public pressure. Sisi was never close to the Brotherhood but he is conservative, like most officers. They pray. This is the moderate Islam that we all follow. But we have to accept that these people [the Brotherhood] are a big segment of society. This is a reality. We must show compromise. But we were all lucky that the army managed to isolate Suez and Sinai – otherwise all those terrorists there would have come to Cairo and there would have been much more blood."
Anwar Sadat was in his early twenties and on the first day of his honeymoon when his uncle was shot by Lieutenant Khaled al-Islambouly.
Egyptian vice President, General Hosni Mubarak, left, and late President Anwar Sadat Egyptian vice President, General Hosni Mubarak, left, and late President Anwar Sadat(AFP/Getty)
"I was on the plane going to Germany and I checked into our hotel in Munich and the manager came to see me – he was almost in tears and said he had "terrible news" – and then the embassy called and I was back in Cairo by the evening. The Brotherhood respected President Sadat. The Brotherhood gave our family a medal only two months ago. They believed he was not Nasser and not Mubarak, that there was no torture then and that President Sadat had a certain tolerance and gave them a chance to reactivate their activities – as long as they followed the rules. At that time, the leftists and the Nasserists were very much against the peace treaty with Israel."
Over the past two and a half years, Anwar Sadat got to know Morsi. "He is a good-hearted man – not a genius, but a good man. But it was the [Brotherhood] group who were controlling the whole show. He was representing them in the presidency, not all Egyptians. The problem was that they were a big failure, they lacked experience of how to deal with the opposition, they excluded the youngsters of the 2011 revolution."
And Hosni Mubarak, the 85-year-old president deposed 30 months before Morsi's overthrow? Should he be freed? Anwar Sadat will abide by the ruling of the judiciary. "Mubarak, in his first 10 years, was trying hard and he was very sincere – but later on, when his sons and wife became part of his political life, he started to give up a lot of his responsibilities and leave them to his wife and sons. There were conflicts of interest and businessmen were around his son Gamal. Mubarak himself was not very fond of the idea of having his son replace him. It was Gamal's friends and business people who kept saying 'you are the best', 'you are the next man'. Mubarak knew the military would fight back against this. Tantawi [who ultimately brought Mubarak down] was tired of all these business transactions."
Mubarak was "a human, a fighter, he was dealing with peace, with stability, but he didn't realise that things had changed, that his government should open up and have flexibility. In this way Mubarak and Morsi made the same mistake. But one more year and we would never have had a chance to get rid of Morsi and we would have had them for the next hundred years. Political Islam – I can't see it would work again unless the strategy changed.
"You have to understand that the war here is not between the people and the army or the people and the police. It is with the people. People hate the Brotherhood nowadays – they think they made a big mistake by electing Morsi. Mubarak was in power for 30 years. The people were against him but he had the deep state and the institutions on his side. Morsi had the people against him and the deep state and the institutions against him.
"As for us Egyptians, from our friends abroad we need solutions that will help us, not threats. And we as a society have to look into what happened to us. We became very savage, even to our friends."
Morsi rallies stay low-key
Supporters of the ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi took to the streets of Cairo today, holding scattered rallies in a test of whether they can keep up the pressure on the government despite the arrest of much of their senior leadership.
Unlike the protests seen in recent weeks, Morsi supporters kept to smaller streets, avoiding major thoroughfares and squares where military and security forces were deployed in strength. The rallies came a day after 80 Muslim Brotherhood members, including senior leaders, were taken into custody.
SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/people-think-they-made-a-big-mistake-electing-morsithey-hate-the-brotherhood-8782787.html


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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bans same-sex marriage. It would also give married gay couples the same federal benefits as straight couples.
We'll likely hear the usual response from the DOMA crowd: Gay marriage hurts families.
Actually, gay marriage helps them.
Without marriage, children of gays and lesbians are not protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act, which gives parents precious job-protected time to care for a new child. These kids aren't guaranteed child support should their parents separate, either. They may miss out on social security or inheritance if a parent dies. They may not even be allowed to visit a sick mom or dad in the hospital. Shouldn't children of gay and lesbian couples be protected, too?
Some worry that kids with gay parents will be mocked. But don't most kids undergo teasing? Kids are laughed at for all sorts of reasons: glasses, religion, height, weight, a crooked nose, poverty, an unusual name. I know of one African American boy who has two lesbian moms. But the first time he was taunted it was for being black, not for having lesbian parents.
A few years back a gay couple who were fostering special needs children wanted to adopt to create a real family. At the time, Florida forbade gay adoption. When the children were asked if they feared being mocked for having two dads, they said no, they just wanted to be a family.
But what about the kids' social, emotional and intellectual health? Studies show that these children are indistinguishable from others. Some will be surprised to learn that there is no difference even in gender identity, gender role behavior, or sexual orientation.
Others worry that gay marriage will lead to higher rates of divorce. Really? I know several people who have gotten divorced because one spouse was gay, the other straight. The partnerships were unstable and the eventual breakups weren't good for families. There are many reasons this can happen, but stigma and the illegality of gay marriage certainly factor in.
Meanwhile, gay suicide rates are four times those of their hetero peers. As gay marriage–and gayness itself–become less stigmatized, these young people will be less inclined to take their own lives. And parents will be less likely to lose their daughters and sons to these tragic deaths. And that's good for families, too.
Gay marriage hurts families? I can't figure out how. Unless it's patriarchal families are the concern. Lesbian and gay marriages both upset the dominant-husband, subordinate-wife model. So gay marriage may indeed hurt patriarchal families that promote gender inequality. I'd say that's a good thing.
Photo from Flickr user Drab Makyo through Creative Commons.


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LE NORMANT DE MÉZY, SÉBASTIEN-FRANÇOIS-ANGE (he signed Lenormant Demesi), colonial official, b. 20 Nov. 1702 in Dunkerque, France, eldest son of Jacques-Ange Le Normant* de Mézy and Anne-Marie Debrier; d. 3 Feb. 1791 at Paris.
Sébastien-François-Ange Le Normant de Mézy belonged to a family of lesser royal servants that had begun to achieve recognition during the reign of Louis XIV, and his career was to reflect its traditional loyalties and associations. When his father came to Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), in 1719 as financial commissary, Le Normant accompanied him and served unofficially in Mézy's office, mastering the rudiments of colonial administration. Late in 1721 Le Normant carried official dispatches to France and acted as his father's emissary to the council of Marine. He returned in 1722 as a scrivener in the Marine, responsible for maintaining lists of Louisbourg land grants, keeping the rolls for naval conscription, and preparing detailed fishing and trade reports.
In 1724 Mézy appointed Le Normant to settle judicial disputes in outlying areas; at the same time he charged him with preparing a census of the fishing settlements and inspecting soldiers on detached duty. Mézy's lax administration having been criticized by Maurepas, the secretary of state for the Marine, Le Normant sailed later that year to France to present his father's defence. He returned to Louisbourg in 1725 as a member of the Conseil Supérieur, a mark of favour from Maurepas who regarded the son with approval in spite of his displeasure with the father. In 1728 Le Normant became chief scrivener, the second ranking civil administrative officer in the colony. To his previous responsibilities were added the maintenance of the garrison muster rolls and supervision of the general stores. By this time his father, whose career was in serious jeopardy, was chiefly occupied in reviewing and completing his financial records, and Le Normant gradually assumed control of the daily operation of colonial government. When Mézy was recalled to France in 1729 to explain his administration, Le Normant was empowered to authorize royal expenditure (ordonnancement). Mézy returned to Île Royale only briefly, and during the early 1730s Le Normant's authority was challenged by rumours impugning his father's rectitude, by his own youth, and by the fact that, though he exercised the powers of financial commissary, he did not have the position. His father was not retired until 1733, and even then there seems to have been some reluctance to appoint a young man who had never served in France. With no one willing to accept a post in unpopular Louisbourg, Le Normant remained in his ambiguous position until 1734 when he sailed to France. The following year he returned with his commissions as financial commissary and first councillor of the Conseil Supérieur.
Le Normant's years at Louisbourg, like his father's, were marked by quarrels with Governor Saint-Ovide [Monbeton*], who had never learned to share authority with civil officials. As early as 1728 the two had come into conflict over Le Normant's newly assumed duty to keep the muster rolls. While Saint-Ovide was in France from 1729 to 1731, Le Normant also clashed with the interim governor, François Le Coutre* de Bourville, who exploited the ambiguity of Le Normant's position to oblige the younger man to defer to him. After 1731 Saint-Ovide once again led the attacks on Le Normant's authority and initiated attempts to have him replaced. It has been suggested that Le Normant's difficulties were the inheritance of his father's conflicts with the governor, but Le Normant made these conflicts his own, defending his jurisdiction with granite-like resistance, and the quarrels usually ended in his favour. Both Saint-Ovide and Bourville received ministerial rebukes for their pretensions as did Le Normant on one occasion in 1737.
The frustrations of Le Normant's position were undoubtedly exacerbated by the difficult economic climate of the 1730s, when the weakness of Louisbourg's economic base – fishing, trade, and the artificial support of government expenditures on fortress construction – was underscored by progressively more serious food shortages. Fishing, the mainstay of the economy, had worked against the development of agriculture because the seasonal demands of both on available labour were coincidental. Though its population was small, the colony was unable to feed itself. After 1731, moreover, the expenditures on fortress construction, which provided temporary cash circulation and facilitated local commerce before profits drained back to France, were reduced by about ten per cent from the average outlay of the previous seven years. More significant was the decline in the cod fishery. The outport fisheries had peaked between 1729 and 1733, but the total value of the Île Royale fishery declined rapidly after the latter date. At the same time. local food shortages, high wages for fishermen at Île Royale, and poor European market conditions led French outfitters to reduce the number of ships sent to the colony. Île Royale came increasingly under the sway of New England merchants, who revolutionized earlier transatlantic trading patterns based on metropolitan supply. Le Normant pointed out to the minister of Marine that economic conditions made the application of French mercantilist trade restrictions unrealistic, and during his term of office Louisbourg became more of a free port than before. The contraction of the fishery was Le Normant's most serious economic problem and, although there was little he could do about it, his concern was expressed in several perceptive analyses of the situation. Confronted in 1738 with the petition of the Louisbourg merchants accusing him of supporting the monopolistic commercial practices of François Du Pont Duvivier and his brother Michel Du Pont de Gourville, Le Normant (on leave in France) replied in a blistering report which revealed both his understanding of the fishery and his contempt for the colonists, whom he described as "ignorant, without order in their business, susceptible to an ardent desire for gain but unable to take suitable measures, and without industry but capable of artifice." He argued that the colony's under-capitalization and the fishery's low profit margin could be remedied by resorting to the oligopolistic structures of the Canadian fur trade. But local merchants, he claimed, resisted attempts to supervise or regulate their customary commercial practices, which included debauching their fishermen and domestics with drink on credit and avoiding their metropolitan creditors under special protection against seizure for debt.
The merchants' charges of favouritism combined with revelations of other irregularities led the minister to make major changes in the Louisbourg administration in the late 1730s. The case against Saint-Ovide had been building up over a number of years and it was decided to retire him. While in France in 1738 Le Normant learned that he himself would be posted elsewhere. From a personal point of view, his years at Louisbourg had been difficult, darkened by persistent rumours of his father's malfeasance, embittered by defamatory attacks from the authoritarian and hot-tempered Recollet Zacharie Caradec, and complicated by the quarrels instigated by Saint-Ovide. Professionally, however, they provided a good foundation for a career that was just beginning. Within the limitations imposed by economic conditions beyond his control, Le Normant had served the colony well, as his successor François Bigot testified. Learning from his father's mistakes, he had transformed the colony's fiscal records into models of exactness, and his acute analyses of the changes in its trade and fishery later became the basis of government policy. The clarity of his reports and the accuracy of his accounts attracted the favourable attention of Maurepas. Perhaps more important, however, his years at Louisbourg had given him a familiarity with all aspects of colonial administration and constituted a unique apprenticeship for Marine service elsewhere. Le Normant had learned from his conflicts to check his own unruly temper, to maintain a glacial calm before provocation, and to moderate his own grievances when corresponding with the secretary of state for the Marine.
In April 1739 Le Normant was appointed financial commissary at Cap-Français (Cap-Haïtien) on the island of Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola), and he left for the colony that autumn. He had been chosen because Maurepas needed an administrator of sufficient ability, experience, and ruthlessness to force several of the colony's former financial officials to disgorge over two million livres in unpaid accounts. His four years at Cap-Français were notable for the harmony between him and the district governor and for his smooth relations with the island's intendant.
In 1744, his difficult task at Saint-Domingue near completion, Le Normant was promoted commissary general and appointed ordonnateur of Louisiana. He arrived at New Orleans in October 1744 with harsh royal instructions for the even more difficult task of liquidating the inflated paper currency that was destroying confidence in Louisiana's economy. By now an experienced ministerial hatchet man, Le Normant ruthlessly implemented the Draconian measures with no special consideration for the difficulties Governor Vaudreuil [Rigaud] was having as a result of an inflammable Indian situation in the lower Mississippi valley and the renewal of Anglo-French hostilities. In fact, an angry Vaudreuil learned of the measures only after they had been promulgated in the Conseil Supérieur on 2 Jan. 1745. His attitude toward military governors having been shaped at Louisbourg, Le Normant probably enjoyed Vaudreuil's discomfort and certainly ignored his ire. By March he had confiscated 850,000 livres, and six months later he reported only 5,000 livres outstanding. In spite of promises that he would succeed to the intendancy of Saint-Domingue, the minister was unable to secure a replacement for him in Louisiana during the war and he was forced to remain there until the spring of 1748. He then returned to Cap-Français for little more than a year before being appointed intendant of Rochefort. He took up his new position in May 1750.
Le Normant's major effort at Rochefort was the reorganization of the arsenal. During his four years there, he increased its personnel, rebuilt long neglected facilities, and vastly expanded its shipbuilding and armament capability. In Paris between August and December 1751, and for most of 1753, he acted as a confidential adviser to Rouillé, the minister of Marine, who recognized his administrative talents. Promoted intendant of naval forces in 1754, he took up the post in October under the new minister, Machault. For years this position had been honorary, but the coming of war and changes within the ministry probably led to the appointment of someone with Le Normant's administrative abilities. His new post, which he continued to hold under Machault's successor, Peirenc, was largely advisory and few records of his duties or activities exist.
His own ability was probably as important a consideration as the influence of Mme de Pompadour, to whom he was distantly related by marriage, when in June 1758 he was made intendant general of the Marine (the equivalent of deputy minister). The office was designed for Le Normant because the new secretary of state and titular head of the Marine, Massiac, was the first member of the nobility of the sword to hold the charge and was unwilling to act as an administrator. During the next five months Le Normant attended to the daily administration of the ministry. He had little to do with the conduct of military and naval operations, but the fall of Louisbourg, the loss of the island of Gorée (off the coast of Senegal), British attacks along the Brittany coast, and France's deteriorating performance in the naval war, as well as internecine struggles within the Marine, all demanded a scapegoat. At the end of October both Le Normant and Massiac were removed from their posts. Le Normant departed with the honorary office of state councillor, the crowning achievement of an intendant's career. He was allowed to keep his rank for life and was granted an annual pension of 20,000 livres.
Le Normant was married twice. His first marriage, in January 1744 to Élisabeth Letellier, née Lescoffier, a wealthy widow at Cap-Français, provided the basis for his wealth. She owned, in whole or in part, two plantations. In 1745 the intendant of Saint-Domingue remarked to Maurepas that the marriage of Le Normant's cousin was "one of the most advantageous marriages there has [ever] been in this colony and which matched that of M. Le Normant." Le Normant may have acquired another plantation during his stay in Saint-Domingue in 1748–49.
Élisabeth Le Normant died in 1754 and on 5 May 1760 Le Normant married Marie-Louise-Augustine de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, great-niece of the famous archbishop of Cambrai, François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon. This marriage was the reverse of his first; he used his wealth to buy his way into an old, eminent, but poor, noble family. In 1760 Le Normant owned property and assets worth half a million livres in France and three plantations, with 500 slaves, worth an estimated two million livres in Saint-Domingue. He built his subsequent fortune in the usual way of an absentee planter by milking his plantations and putting the income into French lands and other investments. 1n retirement he lived the life of a wealthy Parisian rentier, accumulating nearly one million livres' worth of land in the Soissonnais and placing at least another million in perpetual annuities with the royal house of Orléans. At his death in the midst of the French revolution he still owned his plantations, and his French assets had grown to more than three million livres.
Zealous, ambitious, and intelligent, Sébastien-François-Ange Le Normant de Mézy was a ruthless defender of his class, his service, and his conception of his role under the monarch. Though a Marine rather than a royal provincial intendant, he was thoroughly imbued with the attributes and prejudices of his counterparts, who saw themselves as the king's most loyal servants. His scrupulous implementation of royal instructions and his vigorous defence of the prerogatives of his office illustrate his own dictum that the "intendant . . . is the king's man and reliable agent."
[Ministerial correspondence sent to Le Normant is found chiefly in AN, Col., B, and AN, Marine, B2. His personal dossier is contained in AN, Marine, C7, 180. His official correspondence is in three colonial series: AN, Col., C11B (Louisbourg), 4–21 (his response to the 1738 petition is in vol.21, ff.297–304v); C9A (Saint-Domingue), 49–65; and C13A (Louisiana), 28–32. Notice of his marriages is given in AN, Minutier central, LXVIII, no.474, and CXIX, no.509. The originals of some of his dispatches are in AN, Marine, B3, but the most complete collection is in Archives maritimes, Port de Rochefort (France), 1E, 379–82. Among several important documents in the BN, two deserve mention: mss, Coll. Joly de Fleury, 1726, and mss, NAF 126. For his later life, evidence is widely scattered through several registers in AN, Minutier central. j.s.p.]
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is it just me or would the ideal outcome for the megaupload case is that Mega gets the case dismissed with prejudice and gets copies of all the feds evidence? that way when the fed re-bullies the company none of their original evidence can be used.
Mike's Father's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
from the happy-father's-day dept
Every week, we have a member of the community post their "favorite Techdirt posts of the week." Since tomorrow's Father's Day, I figured this week I should ask my Dad, an avid Techdirt reader.
Well this is a treat. I am Mike's father and this is my Father's Day present (sort of). I do read Techdirt on a regular basis and with very rare exceptions I don't comment. I have followed some of the more contentious comment streams out of curiosity and I have found it striking that articles on Techdirt arouse such intense reactions. In any case I will comment here on what I regard as the most interesting articles for me on Techdirt this past week.
I have followed with some interest the Megaupload case which has just taken a further step down the rabbit hole, as seen in US Continues To Try To Block Megaupload From Using Its Lawyers, Pretends It Has Jurisdiction Over The World.
It has been my experience that arguments that use logic, legal precedent, constitutional reasoning and sometimes even common sense almost never convince a person or organization that holds power to reconsider the path they have started on. Most people, regardless of their training, knowledge or instincts, go into defensive mode when challenged. Almost always. The trouble seems to come up extra strong when the person or agency is really powerful — and the DOJ is about as powerful as you can get outside of military forces. Challenge the DOJ on what it has come to regards as its turf and you are gonna get a whale of a lot of pushback. They have a ton of weapons and almost no restraint in using their arsenal. And they can make it mighty expensive to challenge them. So my bias says that it's usually a good thing to push back when they overreach. That way there's a chance (probably a small chance) that cooler heads or judicial review will set things right. That's probably not the way to bet, though.
We live in a world defined by the suffixes .com, .org etc. But that is about to change, possibly in a big way. As noted in .Rip .Off: Highlights From The Top-Level Domain Scrum.
There are currently 22 top level domains (like .net, .xxx, etc) but for an obscene amount of money ($375 million) there will be as many as 1,000 by the end of 2013. ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a not for profit corporation, charged $185,000 per application to 1930 organizations (groups and companies), to have their suggestions examined. The process, the prospective domain names, the competing companies that have proposed the same names and some potential problems with the process and the proposed names are discussed in this article.
Whatever the original purpose of copyright law was, a heavy dose of lawyering (and a compliant court) has brought us to the point where the level of impediments to normal commerce has reached new heights. It surprised me to learn that if I make a product, say a blender, outside the USA, and I put a tiny copyrighted symbol on the blender, that used blender may not be resold by the original purchaser to a third party without the permission of the copyright holder. For details on these and other nutty facts of life under USA copyright law, study: Why The Supreme Court Needs To Make Sure That Selling A Used iPad Isn't A Copyright Violation.
Many years ago, I worked in the research department of the Grumman Corporation. This was my first job out of graduate school and I loved it. My boss was a very smart guy named Bob McGill and he was, in addition to being a first class scientist/engineer, a very sophisticated investor. I had never invested a nickel up to that point so I was very impressed when, over lunch, Bob related to me some of the basics of investing. No one remembers it now, but before there was a dot com boom, there was a boom in computing stocks in the 1960s. The success of IBM and Xerox awakened investors to the potential profits in early investing in technology companies. Bob showed me a "red herring." That was the informal name for the prospectus that brokerages sent to customers who might be interested in investing (gambling) in the IPO for companies about to go public. The company described in the "red herring" was for an enterprise that would, at some point in the future, provide computer services for companies that did not have a computer of their own. I read the prospectus. The experience of the founder of the company noted that his previous position before starting this venture was working in "Tom's Bike Shop" and he wasn't Tom. That fact was enough to convince me that this was probably not a great investment opportunity. If you'd like to see a modern version of a prospectus for a "hot IPO", check out this tongue-in-cheek version: Prospectus for Silicon Valley's Next Hot Tech IPO.
Patents. We are in an era when patents (and their misuse) have created fits for technology companies. Long ago, just out of school, I met a prolific inventor with over 150 patents who told me that all his patents were an attempt to prevent him from being sued by someone else for patent violation. His most important invention, which made him and his investors very wealthy, he never patented. He kept that as a trade secret, zealously guarded. That was my first hint that something was wrong with the patent system in the USA. Attempts to explain the intrinsic value of our patent system are stretching, distorting or simply making up from whole cloth non-fact facts to justify the current system. Exhibit A is this article: Commerce Department's Own Study Debunks Commerce Department's Defense Of Said Study.
Finally, this past Fall saw the SOPA/PIPA debacle in which various vested interests attempted to put forth prospective legislation to protect legacy companies, business models and enterprises in some fairly heavy handed ways. Once the online community caught on to what was being proposed, they arose real fast and real hard. But some of the more egregious features of those now defeated attempts are nonetheless part of current law and causing all kinds of troubling problems. For a description of one such case, check out: Tell The White House To Stop Illegally Seizing & Shutting Down Websites.
Well that's all for now. I'm probably off the hook to do this again until next Father's Day.


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When the Ravens defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers last November at Heinz Field, veteran strong safety James Ihedigbo had a key sack late in the game.
Ihedigbo knocked quarterback Byron Leftwich to the turf, and the Steelers' backup was slow to get up and wincing in obvious pain.
Now, Ihedigbo is preparing to compete with rookie first-round draft pick Matt Elam for a starting job that opened when Bernard Pollardwas cut in March.
Although Elam is regarded as the favorite to win the competition, Ihedigbo isn't conceding anything to the former University of Florida All-American selection.
"I'm excited about the opportunity, and competition brings out the best in you," Ihedigbo said. "Matt's a great player and a great guy. I played with his brother, Abe, with the Jets. He comes from a great pedigree. I'm excited. At the end of the day, the best 11 players will be on the field. It's going to be fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens."
Ihedigbo had 19 tackles, one sack and a pass deflection last season, starting three games and playing in every game.
He had six special teams tackles, but the 6-foot-1, 215-pounder is expected to have a greater role on defense this season.
Two seasons ago, Ihedigbo had a career-high 70 tackles as a starter for the New England Patriots. When he was with the Jets three seasons ago, Ihedigbo had a career-high three sacks.
"The best guy has to play," Ravens secondary coach Teryl Austin said. "It doesn't matter where you're drafted and how you got here. If you're here and are performing the best, you're going to play. James brings veteran leadership. He's been in a lot of big games. I have a lot of confidence in James."
The Ravens retained Ihedigbo prior to him becoming a free agent on a one-year, $780,000 contract that includes a $715,000 base salary, $35,000 signing bonus and a $30,000 roster bonus.
"I'm excited, it's a great opportunity in front of me personally," Ihedigbo said. "As a team, we know the bullseye's on our back. We have a lot to prove.
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"We lost great players, but great players are born. You have to step up and we all understand that. We have a great core of guys. We're excited about this season."
In addition to plugging in a new starter at strong safety, the Ravens also have to replace Pro Bowl free safety Ed Reed, who signed a three-year, $15 million contract with the Houston Texans. The Ravens signed former Oakland Raiders starter Michael Huff to take Reed's place.
"You talk about a guy who's a safety," Ihedigbo said of Huff. "He can play nickel, he's played corner. He's fast. He has great range around the field. I'm glad to have him on our team. He's a phenomenal player. I can't speak more highly about him."
In transitioning to new personnel, Austin pointed out that intelligence and ability to quickly pick up schemes as strong attributes for Huff and Ihedigbo.
"That's what you look for look for: guys who are smart football players, real professionals and guys who are unselfish," Austin said. "Last year, we brought in Corey Graham and he's an unselfish guy who started the year on special teams. By the end of the year, he was probably our best corner. Some would say he played extremely well. And it was because he's unselfish."


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The level and nature of autistic intelligence II: What about Asperger Syndrome?
Autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger syndrome, have generally been associated with uneven intellectual profiles and impairment, but according to a new study of Asperger individuals published in the online journal PLoS ONE, this may not be the case as long as intelligence is evaluated by the right test. Both autistic and Asperger individuals display uneven profiles of performance in commonly used intelligence test batteries such as Wechsler scales, and their strongest performances are often considered evidence for deficits.
However, this study reports that Asperger individuals' scores are much higher when they are evaluated by a test called Raven's Progressive Matrices, which encompasses reasoning, novel problem-solving abilities, and high-level abstraction. By comparison, scores for non-Asperger individuals are much more consistent across different tests. Interestingly, Asperger participants' performance on Raven's Matrices was associated with their strongest peaks of performance on Wechsler.
A previous study by the same group found very similar results for autistic individuals as well, whose peaks of ability are perceptual, rather than verbal as in Asperger individuals. This suggests a common information processing mechanism applied to different aspects of information (verbal vs. perceptual).
According to co-author Michelle Dawson, "while we know autistics process information atypically, very little thought has gone into how to fairly assess their abilities. In fact there is so little understanding of what autistics do well that their strong abilities are often regarded as dysfunctional. Here we have again found that measurable strengths in autistic spectrum individuals are not "isolated islets of abilities" as previously thought, but are in fact representative of autistics' intellectual abilities. This in turn raises questions about how we can provide autistics with the kinds of information they can process well, as we do with non-autistic individuals. We consider the effort to understand and encourage autistic strengths to be of paramount importance. "
Based on these results, the authors emphasize that autistic spectrum intelligence is atypical, but also genuine, general, and underestimated.
More information: Soulieres I, Dawson M, Gernsbacher MA, Mottron L (2011) The Level and Nature of Autistic Intelligence II: What about Asperger Syndrome? PLoS ONE 6(9): e25372. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025372


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