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Jessica Desvarieux, TRNN Producer: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore.
Here at The Real News, we want to expand our coverage of privatization and ways that it works and ways that it doesn't work. As we detailed in our recent coverage of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, there's a greater and greater push for corporate interests to privatize areas of society that have been under the public sector banner, as well as a continued effort to further deregulate already private sector areas.
With us to dig deeper into the issue of privatization and its effects is Paul Buchheit. He's a college teacher at DePaul University in Chicago, a writer for progressive publications, and the founder and developer of social justice and educational websites like UsAgainstGreed.org.
Thanks for joining us, Paul.
Paul Buchheit, Founder, USAGAINSTGREED.ORG: Thank you, Jessica.
Desvarieux: So, Paul, welcome back to The Real News.
Let's talk about your piece called "Eight Ways Privatization Has Failed America". As Ted Koppel recently said, privatizing ourselves into one disaster after another, that's what we've been doing.
So let's look at your article and breakdown and see if there are any merits to this argument. So first and foremost let's look at health care. In your opinion, is free-market health care taking care of the CEOs more than it's taking care of the general public?
Buchheit: Well, yes, that's a good way to put it.
Yes. I think I'd like to preface my comments about health care with a general statement that it's remarkable how the mainstream media is finally starting to realize that the myth of the free market is exactly that. It just hasn't really worked. If you look at all the major areas of society, not just health care, but education and water and other basic human needs and prisons, and even banking, public institutions have been working better than private industry.
So you asked about health care to begin with. That's a clear-cut example of—to me and I think to anybody who studies the issues, that it's much more expensive. Our health-care system—and the right-wingers will blame Medicare, but it's the cost of—it's too many hands of the pot. You have doctors and hospitals and insurance companies and drug companies, and they've worked the system to the point where basic surgeries, you know, kidney stones or something, cost three times more in America than in countries with a single payer. And it's not just the cost of care. Administrative costs are about three times higher for private medicine than for Medicare. And these are reputable studies or reports that have shown us that our private health care system is clearly out of control. And I think everybody realizes that, but there's too much money being made by those CEOs you mentioned to change the system.
And one more point on that about CEOs. Think about this. The Medicare administrator last year made about $200,000. The CEO of MD Anderson Cancer Center made ten times as much, $2 million, and the CEO of UnitedHealthcare made 300 times as much, $50 million. I mean, you know, when you think about the importance of providing care, health care to everybody in our country, children and old people especially, and millions of dollars are going to just a few individuals, it's really rather obscene.
Desvarieux: Okay. Paul, you mention that the care is a lot cheaper in other countries, but let's talk about also just the quality of care, 'cause some might argue, oh, because of these high prices we have, the quality of care in the United States is better than those countries that might have single-payer. Is there any merit to that sort of argument?
Buchheit: Well, not really. There's been—if you look at OECD, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, which compiles statistics comparing countries, over the last 30 years it shows that United States, which used to be a leader in health statistics like life expectancy and infant mortality, we've dropped down. We were near the top in the 1980s, and now we're near the bottom of developed countries. So it's been a dramatic swing from one extreme to the other. And it's interesting that the only group in America that's really increased their life expectancy is the group of Medicare patients.
Desvarieux: Okay. Let's move on to your second point. You talk about the privatization of water. And there was actually a Citigroup economist that said, quote, "Water as an asset class will, in my view, become eventually the single most important physical-commodity based asset class, dwarfing oil, copper, agricultural commodities and precious metals." What has the effect of water privatization been?
Buchheit: Well, it's sort of a cruel joke among financial people, I think, that water is the next big market. You know, taking something that's so essential to life as, you know, food, air, and water and taking part of that and just making a commodity of it, it's shameful, in my opinion. And it doesn't work. You know, these companies, the examples in the past—Food & Water Watch did a lengthy analysis of this and found that private companies charge about 80 percent more for water services than public utilities. And that's conservative estimate.
And then companies like Nestlé, for example, they're big in the water business. Well, you know, it's just that whole concept of putting water into bottles, you know, water that probably is no better than tap water. But companies like Nestlé, it's an incredible figure. I've never been able to get over it. But they buy water for, like, a fraction of a penny a gallon and sell it back for 100,000 times as much. That's the kind of profit they're making on our water.
Desvarieux: Wow.
Okay. Let's move on to your third point, internet TV and phone. This is not the case that people are trying to privatize internet and phone and TV. They've already been privatized. But it's more about regulation. Is the issue right now that deregulation has become so rampant that consumers aren't being protected? For example, could you talk about—could you actually give us specific examples of this?
Buchheit: Well, back in the '90s, there was—when companies like AT&T and Comcast and Verizon were pushing for deregulation, they said it would promote competition and bring down costs. But just the opposite has happened. Now there's only, like, four big media companies or telephone and cable and internet companies, and they—it's more of an oligopoly. You know, they—I'm not going to accuse them of conspiring or colluding, you know, but their costs have continued to go up. We—almost all of us can relate to this, you know, what we pay for our phones and internet service and TV. We pay—again, comparing to other countries like Korea and Hong Kong and European countries, we pay about three times more, and we get, like, one-tenth of the speed. Now, if there were true competition and if there were regulations that were limiting these companies from gouging consumers, then this wouldn't happen. We should be getting much better service. And most Americans don't realize that. We just take what we can get. But we don't realize how the companies are really taking advantage. And deregulation is—in the '90s is really what started it.
Desvarieux: Okay. Lastly, let's switch gears and talk about transportation. How much of the United States' transportation has been privatized thus far?
Buchheit: Well, this is really a sore spot for me and my family, because living here in Chicago, when Mayor Daley left office, he sold out our parking facilities, parking meters to some company for, like, $1 billion. So he went out in style. You know, like, here I'm on paying off all these debts, you know, and all I had to do was make this deal. But now it's coming back to haunt us, a 75-year deal where the company immediately doubled the rates. And we're all paying—I don't go downtown and park anymore because it costs so much more. And it's not just in Chicago. Around the country, any time attempts have been made to privatize parking or roads, you know, like in California and Georgia, the prices immediately went up.
And then another aspect of transportation is public trains and, you know, rail service. And this always gets me, too, how the right-wingers, the libertarians will actually refer to public rail systems as socialist or Soviet style systems, you know, as if there's something evil know about trying to provide cheap transportation for people. But, again, that's an example of capitalism favoring the few people in power with the—that are taking all the money from these deals. But the vast majority of us are paying higher tolls and getting less in service.
Desvarieux: Okay. In our next segment, we're going to talk about your last four points.
Thanks so much for joining us, Paul.
Buchheit: Thank you, Jessica.
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3325FIRST, my Feare: then, my Curtsie:
last, my Speech.
3326My Feare, is your Displeasure: My Curtsie, my Dutie:
3327And my speech, to Begge your Pardons. If you looke for a
3328good speech now, you vndoe me: For what I haue to say, is
3329of mine owne making: and what (indeed) I should say, will
3330(I doubt) prooue mine owne marring. But to the Purpose,
3331and so to the Venture. Be it knowne to you (as it is very
3332well) I was lately heere in the end of a displeasing Play, to pray your Patience
3333for it, and to promise you a Better: I did meane (indeede) to pay you with this,
3334which if (like an ill Venture) it come vnluckily home, I breake; and you, my gen-
3335tle Creditors lose. Heere I promist you I would be, and heere I commit my Bodie
3336to your Mercies: Bate me some, and I will pay you some, and (as most Debtors do)
3337promise you infinitely.
3338 If my Tongue cannot entreate you to acquit me: will you command me to vse
3339my Legges? And yet that were but light payment, to Dance out of your debt: But
3340a good Conscience, will make any possible satisfaction, and so will I. All the Gen-
3341tlewomen heere, haue forgiuen me, if the Gentlemen will not, then the Gentlemen
3342do not agree with the Gentlewowen, which was neuer seene before, in such an As-
3344 One word more, I beseech you: if you be not too much cloid with Fat Meate,
3345our humble Author will continue the Story (with Sir Iohn in it) and make you
3346merry, with faire Katherine of France: where (for any thing I know) Fal-
3347staffe shall dye of a sweat, vnlesse already he be kill'd with your hard Opinions:
3348For Old-Castle dyed a Martyr, and this is not the man. My Tongue is wearie
3349when my Legs are too, I will bid you good night; and so kneele downe before you:
3350But (indeed) to pray for the Queene.

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Uber buys self-driving truck startup Otto; teams with Volvo
Uber's moves reflect its eagerness to advance self-driving technology. If its ambitions are realized, these vehicles could over time reduce its biggest cost, paying drivers.
Ride service Uber Technologies Inc said on Thursday it acquired self-driving trucks startup Otto and formed a $300 million alliance with Volvo Car Group to develop self-driving cars.
Uber's moves reflect its eagerness to advance self-driving technology. If its ambitions are realized, these vehicles could over time reduce its biggest cost, paying drivers.
Uber would also be positioned to expand into the trucking industry, which had revenue of about $726.4 billion in the United States in 2015, according to trade data.
Carpooling firms have formed alliances with large automakers, such as General Motors Co and ride-hailing service Lyft, to accelerate those efforts, which depend on software and hardware working together to give a vehicle the right reflexes in traffic.
"Partnership is crucial to our self-driving strategy because Uber has no experience making cars," Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick wrote in a blogpost.
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It will be the first time members of the public will be able to use self-driving vehicles. A driver trained to handle the autonomous cars will be behind the wheel to step in if needed.
The purchase of Otto, a start-up company less than a year old with fewer than 100 employees, will be for 1 percent of Uber's valuation, if certain technical targets are met, said the source.
Recently, that valuation was about $68 billion, placing the value of the deal at about $680 million. Current Otto employees would get a fifth of profits Uber earns from a self-driving trucking business, if those targets are met, the source said.
Current Otto employees would get a fifth of profits Uber earns from a self-driving trucking business.
Anthony Levandowski, one of Otto's co-founders, will lead Uber's self-driving efforts in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Pittsburgh, Kalanick said on the company's website. (https://newsroom.uber.com/rethinking-transportation/)
That includes personal transportation such as ride-hailing services, as well as delivery services and trucking, Kalanick said.
Levandowski was one of four founders of Otto, each of whom worked at Alphabet Inc's Google
The Uber-Volvo partnership will allow Uber to pool resources with the Swedish-based carmaker, owned by China's Geely <0175.HK>, into initially developing the autonomous driving capabilities of Volvo's flagship XC90 SUV model. The investment will be shared roughly equally by the two companies..
There was no timeline given for the alliance, but the source said the goal is to develop a fully self-driving car by 2021, and that Uber, which does not plan to make its own vehicle, will align with other automakers over time.
Uber will buy Volvos and then install its own driverless control system. Some of the Volvos will join a handful of Ford Motor Co Fusion sedans that will be used to start the pilot programme that combines self-driving and ride-hailing in downtown Pittsburgh.
So far Otto has tested self-driving trucks for highway use only.
Developers hope for productivity gains with the new technology that will enable trucks to drive around the clock, leaving humans to rest, do paperwork and take controls only while going on and off highways.
Over the long-term, Uber and rivals such as Lyft could cut the cost of paying drivers if they can gradually incorporate self-driving cars into their fleets. But at least for now, said the source familiar with the Uber-Otto agreement, Uber will expand its driver network, which now stands at 1.5 million globally in more than 450 cities.
A spokesman for U.S. safety regulator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it "continues to engage with all entities that are developing, testing and deploying automated technologies to ensure that they are advancing road safety."
Federal guidelines will be issued soon on development and testing of "highly automated vehicles," he said.
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You may have already seen Jerad S. Marantz's early work on Green Lantern (here he created a very bulbous Philip Seymour Hoffman as Hector Hammond). Now take a look at some of his early character concept art for X-Men: First Class. Oh Azazel!
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
Marantz released this work on his Facebook page with this quickie statement:
I always have fun on these comic book movies. I was on the film for a short time but was able to contribute. I just saw the movie today and really liked it. Here are a few designs I did.
We really love his Azazel. It probably would have been a much different movie if the red character was channeling this look, but still it's pretty great! Plus we love Emma Frost's icy shoulder pads!
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The Damm Theatre
Located in the southeast corner of Indiana is a small community called Osgood. With a population of approximately 1,700, the town is quieter today than it was when trains regularly traveled through Osgood a century ago. The passengers stayed in the local hotels and sought evening entertainment at movie theaters. The Damm Theatre, owned by German immigrant Louis Damm, offered its customers everything big-city movie houses could. From first-run movies and short reels to vaudevillian skits and local amateur acts, the theater was a popular place in town. The Osgood community was so proud of its Damm Theatre that the city's welcome sign included the motto: "Home of the Damm Theatre."
The story of the Damm Theatre begins with its name sake, Louis Damm. Louis was only fifteen years old when he came to America in 1868. After settling in Cincinnati to live with relatives, he worked in a bakery earning $1 per week. Eventually Louis saved enough money to purchase his own bakery, and he soon after married Kathryn Vetter. For nine years Louis and his wife ran their bakery business in Cincinnati until they moved to Osgood in 1902 to open a new bakery.
Business in Osgood was good, yet Louis was enterprising. In 1914, he built a modern movie house next door to his bakery, which opened in October with the silent feature film Big Jim of the Sierras. Like many theaters in the early days of film, the Damm Theatre also hosted vaudeville and local amateur acts along with its major motion pictures. Remarkably, the Damm Theatre's versatility allowed it to compete with other movie houses in larger cities.
In 1922 Osgood's first movie theater, the Columbia Theatre , owned by local retired businessmen Richard Beer and Gottlieb Herman, was sold to Louis Damm. Soon after, Louis moved his theater into the new location across the street, and renamed the Columbia Theatre the Damm Theatre. As the sole movie house in Osgood, Louis decided to expand the number of days for showing films from one (Tuesdays) to five (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday). In addition to providing Ripley County with its largest auditorium, the new Damm Theatre location also included a large dance hall on the second floor. The approximately 400-seat theater could hold one-third of the town's population. When popular movies played there, it regularly did.
The "new" Damm Theatre's exterior architectural style is considered Nineteenth-Century Functional. As part of a city block, rather than a stand-alone structure, the theater's exterior, though simple, reflects the original architectural look of the block and blends in harmoniously with the neighboring businesses. Its interior design is not one specific style, but is similar to other movie theaters of the past. The theater still maintains many original elements, such as its molded tin ceilings, cast-iron seats with original red velvet upholstery, wall sconces, and a maple hardwood dance floor upstairs. Moreover, individual pieces have also survived, including rare projection equipment, film memorabilia, and other historic items. At one time a piano-console Wurlitzer player organ was installed in the front of the theater to be used for silent films; however, the organ was repossessed during the Depression by the local Wurlitzer agent in Rising Sun, Indiana. The area has since been filled in with cement. The second floor dance hall also once housed a Wurlitzer orchestrion that provided dance music.
The Damm Theatre operated for thirty-nine years as a family operation, run by the five children of Louis Damm, until 1953, when Joe Damm purchased controlling interest in the business from his family. Business thrived into the 1960s, as the theater was open six days per week, and sometimes showed as many as three different films in a single week. When Joe Damm died in 1973, his wife Viola continued to operate the theater with the help of her son, Robert.
Damm Theater - Circa 1900
Osgood, IN
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|However, times had changed by the 1960s. Decreased railway traffic meant fewer visitors to Osgood. Additionally, the advent of television caused declining theater attendances nationwide. Both factors severely limited business for the Damm Theatre, to the point of cutting back its hours of operation from six days to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday by the mid-1980s. Nevertheless, Viola devoted herself to running a family-friendly theater that was clean and affordable. With Viola's death in 1989, however, the Damm Theatre was forced to cease continuous operation for the first time since it opened in 1922, thus shutting down the only cinema in town.
The Damm Theatre may be closed, but it is not forgotten. Taking up the cause is Robert Damm and his wife, Judy. They envision reopening the theater to meet the needs of the Osgood community. In their ideal scenario, the restored Damm Theatre, in addition to showing films, could also be used for plays, parties, and even dances upstairs. Currently they are working on listing the theater on the National Register of Historic Places, an important first step in documenting the theater's historic significance, as well as securing financial backing from the local philanthropic Reynolds Foundation. The Damms have a lot of work ahead of them to restore their family theater to its original grandeur, but they are admittedly working on a labor of love. When considering that theirs is believed to be the oldest family-operated movie house in Indiana, it is not hard to understand why their task is so important, and the finished product so necessary.
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Early Amazon: Recommendations
As another side project (see "Early Amazon: Inventory cache"), I started working on a replacement. I wanted the recommendation engine to be fast, scalable, and able to work from just a couple ratings or purchases.
This was not what I was supposed to be doing, mind you.
I never got a chance to work on the BookMatcher project. I wasn't supposed to be working on recommendations. There were other, official projects that consumed my normal waking hours.
This was something I did on the side. My twisted, geek idea of fun.
I hacked. I tested. I iterated. With time, I built something that worked well.
I showed it to a few other people. Right around then, there was a major redesign of the Amazon.com website. Before I knew it, I was rushing my little prototype out the door.
A talented engineering manager named Dwayne helped put a spiffy UI on top of the recommendation engine. We rolled it out with the other changes. The new feature was called "Instant Recommendations".
Bookmatcher and Instant Recommendations co-existed on the site for some time. Eventually, low traffic, performance problems, and poor recommendation quality caused BookMatcher to disappear.
Instant Recommendations expanded to take its place, and eventually formed the backbone for much of the personalization at Amazon.
Such a useful and valuable feature came from work I was never supposed to be doing. In there somewhere lies the secret to innovation.
10 comments:
How was your recommandation system related to academic ones ?
- April 2, 2006 at 9:52 AM
So do you recommend Amazon adopt Google's 20% time program?
- April 2, 2006 at 10:34 AM
- mb said...
To an outsider, Instant Recommendations sounds an awful lot like how Findory works. You get results after just a few articles, and it doesn't require nightly batch jobs to recalc.
Does Findory use a similar approach, or is personalizing news and blogs that much different from personalizing book recommendations?
- April 2, 2006 at 4:36 PM
- Greg Linden said...
mb, the algorithms behind Findory are quite a bit different. Recommending news stories has some unusual challenges. In particular, news stories are generated much more rapidly and expire much more quickly than books or other products.
Anonymous, which academic recommendation systems?
Anonymous #2, I do like the motivation behind Google's 20% time program. I'm not sure if 20% time is ideal for Amazon, but it does seem to work well for Google.
- April 2, 2006 at 4:53 PM
After reading your post, I just read your paper "amazon.com recommendations" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=1167344 . I guess that's the algorithm you are referring to in your post? In the end, it is somewhat similar to association rule mining (customers who bought A also bought B) except that you calculate the similarity of the items later on. What do you think about association rule mining and how does it compare to your algorithm? I missed that comparison in your paper...
- April 3, 2006 at 1:06 AM
- Laptop said...
I agree - that is the best kind of innovation... and also the most fun.
That has always been the way I work.
In fact, that is exactly what I'm doing now, and why I got to your site. I'm trying to learn a bit more of the technical algorithms used inorder to build something similar for my company.
Would love to get some useful tips and links if you have them.
- November 6, 2006 at 9:25 AM
- searchquant said...
With Amazon apparently testing the biggest site redesign in years, I'd love to get your thoughts on where you think Amazon still has opportunities to improve their game.
- September 10, 2007 at 11:09 PM
- Greg Linden said...
Hi, Chris. I'd love to see Amazon do personalized search, different search results for different people based on their past behavior and interests.
Stepping back for a second and looking at the bigger picture, I think it is hard to say that Amazon is anywhere close to done. The experience of shopping at Amazon is hardly effortless, full of discovery, or even all that pleasant.
Going to Amazon should be like walking into your favorite store, the nearest shelves piled high with things you like, everything you don't need fading into the background. When you walk up to an item, everything you need to quickly evaluate it and decide whether to buy it should float to your attention. Buying should be effortless, a couple clicks at most, with no unpleasant surprises (such as hidden shipping charges, delays, or belated out of stock e-mails).
Amazon has taken some steps toward that vision, but is a long way from there.
- September 11, 2007 at 7:45 AM
- joncates said...
this is great! when did the events you detail occur? in other words, when/in what year did Amazon introduce Instant Recommendations?
- September 10, 2014 at 6:35 PM
Being a Masters student doing thesis on Web Page Recommendation, I would like to know more on the recommendation algorithms used currently at Amazon and also the scope of integrating semantic web technologies with web page recommendation.
- October 8, 2015 at 12:57 AM


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Six inmates are being praised after they helped save a deputy who passed out during a work detail by calling 911.
On Monday, June 12, a deputy who was working security for the Polk County Sheriff's Office work detail passed out. That morning the humidity was at 100% and it was 76 degrees outside.
The officer, who asked not to be identified, collapsed.
Six of the inmates who were there jumped into action. They opened his shirt and removed the officer's bulletproof vest so that they could perform CPR. One inmate grabbed the officer's phone and dialed 911.
One of the inmates said the deputy was unconscious for a minute and wasn't really breathing. "When he started breathing, it was just real heavy and real fast," said Greg Williams.
EMS eventually arrived to the scene and provided assistance, but the Polk County Sheriff's Office is applauding the inmates' quick actions.
"They really stepped up in a time of crisis and show that they care about my officers," Polk County Sheriff Johnny Moats said. "That really speaks a lot about my officers too, how they treat these inmates. They treat them like people. Like family."
The officer's family members provided a free lunch with desserts to the inmates who helped save the officer's life as a show of appreciation for doing the right thing.
The Polk Co. Sheriff's Office shared a Facebook post praising the inmates for their heroic actions and also shared pictures of their well-deserved free lunch.
But for Williams, he said the group just did what they thought they needed to do.
"When that happened, in my opinion, it wasn't about who is in jail and who wasn't," Williams said. "It was about a man going down and we had to help him."


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Today I spoke at Sony HQ in front of some Pretty Important Folks, so I wanted to be smart about Sony's offerings lest anything obviously uninformed slip out of my mouth. To prepare I did a bunch of Google searches around Sony and its various products.
Many of these searches are what I call "head end" searches – a lot of folks are searching for the terms I put in, and they are doubly important to Google (and its advertising partners) because they are also very commercial in nature (not in my case, but in general.) Usually folks searching for "Sony Tablets" have some intent to purchase tablets in the near future, or at the very least are somewhere in what's called the "purchase funnel."
I was struck with the results, so much so I took a screen shot of one representative set of results. In traditional print, we used to watch a metric called "Ad Edit Ratio" very closely (as did the government, for reasons of calculating postal rates). Editors at publications lobbied for low ad edit ratios (so they'd get more space to put their content, naturally). Advertising executives lobbied for higher Ad Edit ratios (so they could sell more ads, of course). We usually settled somewhere around 50-50 – half ads, half editorial.
Google is way lower than that, on any given search. But not for head end searches. In fact, as a percentage of actual "editorial" (organic search results) versus "paid", it's pushing towards 35/65 or more, at least when you measure the space "above the fold" on a typical screen.
Then again, in the case of AdWords, one could argue the ads are contextually relevant and useful.
Just felt worth pointing out, if for no other reason as to add a page to the historical record of how the service is evolving. Once "media" adwords start taking over, this picture may well change again, and it might not be a change that folks like much.


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To narrow down, you can run a couple of tests: with a card formatted in the camera, record as much as you can, with:- mlv_rec with sound (your current configuration that fails)- mlv_rec without sound- mlv_lite- raw_rec (with some older version), only if the above did not work- custom code that writes something to a file over and over (minimal example), only if the above did not workAlso, how does the crash look like? (e.g. can you film the camera screen during the crash?)
A few seconds into the video you will see the timer stop and the word "Stopped" appear behind the recording icon.
Are there 2 beeps when "Stopped" appears?
Not sure what might be causing the issue, but mlv_rec's file I/O backend is pretty different from mlv_lite's; maybe g3gg0 has some ideas.There is work in progress for making mlv_lite compatible with mlv_snd.
It's cool to read there's others out there who also love the 7D. I agree it's quite the weapon even as it currently standsFor a long time I've been debating to get a VAF filter, if theres a 7D user out there that has one I'd be very interested to see DNG's with and without
I bought the VAF Filter for my 7d.I'm slacking- haven't used it much, but I can pump out some examples for you if you'd like to see it!
Hello to everyoneI was wondering if this new ML is also compatible with canon 7D firmware 2.0.6. If not which are the solutions to have ML installed?Thanks,
is it possible to implement H264 proxy mode in the 10/12 bits builds ?
I haven't tried it yet. 10/12 bit needs some more work first. The plan (my plan) is to also add lossless compression and the crop_rec module and all the other goodies from the crop_rec_4k branch but it is going to take a lot of work to get there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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As published in the Murfreesboro Post, December 26, 2006
Organization of the Fourteenth Army Corps, or Army of the Cumberland,
The Stone's River or Murfreesborough, Tenn., Campaign.
Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, U.S. Army, commanding
Col. JAMES BARNETT.
10th Ohio, Lieut.
Col. Joseph W. Burke.
Anderson Troop, Pennsylvania Cavalry,
Lieut. Thomas S. Maple.
Maj. Gen. ALEXANDER McD. McCOOK
Brig. Gen. JEFFERSON C. DAVIS.
36th Illinois Cavalry, Company B,
Capt. Samuel B. Sherer
2d Kentucky Cavalry, Company G:
Capt. Miller R. McCulloch.
Lieut. Harvey S. Park.
First (late Thirtieth) Brigade.
Col. P. SIDNEY POST.
59th Illinois,
Capt. Hendrick E. Paine.
74th Illinois,
Col. Jason Marsh.
75th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett
22d Indiana,
Col. Michael Gooding.
Second (late Thirty-first) Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM P. CARLIN.
21st Illinois:
Col. J. W. S. Alexander.
Lieut. Col. Warren E. McMackin.
38th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. Daniel H. Gilmer.
101st Ohio:
Col. Leander Stem.
Lieut. Col. Moses F. Wooster.
Maj. Isaac M. Kirby.
Capt. Bedan B. McDonald.
15th Wisconsin,
Col. Hams C. Heg.
Third (late Thtrty-second) Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM E. WOODRUFF.
25th Illinois:
Maj. Richard H. Nodine.
Col. Thomas D. Williams.
Capt. Wesford Taggart.
35th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. William P. Chandler.
81st Indiana,
Lieut. Col. John Timberlake.
2d Minnesota Battery,
Capt. William A. Hotchkiss.
5th Wisconsin Battery:
Capt. Oscar F. Pinney.
Lieut. Charles B. Humphrey.
8th Wisconsin Battery:
Capt. Stephen J. Carpenter.
Sergt. Obadiah German.
Lieut. Henry E. Stiles.
Brig. Gen. RICHARD W. JOHNSON.
First (late Sixth) Brigade.
(1.) Brig. Gen. AUGUST WILLICH.
(2.) Col. WILLIAM WALLACE.
(3.) Col. WILLIAM H. GIBSON.
89th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. Charles T. Hotchkiss.
32d Indiana,
Lieut. Col. Frank Erdelmeyer.
39th Indiana,
Lieut. Col. Fielder A.Jones.
15th Ohio:
Col. William Wallace.
Capt. A. R. Z Dawson.
Col. William Wallace.
49th Ohio:
Col. William H. Gibson.
Lieut. Col. Levi Drake.
Capt. Samuel F. Gray.
Second (late Fifth) Brigade.
(1.) Brig. Gen. EDWARD N. KIRK.
(2.) Col. JOSEPH B. DODGE.
34th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Hiram W. Bristol.
Maj. Alexander P. Dysart.
79th Illinois:
Col. Sheridan P. Read.
Maj. Allen Buckner.
29th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. David M. Dunn
Maj. Joseph P. Collins.
30th Indiana:
Col. Joseph B. Dodge.
Lieut. Col. Orrin D. Hurd.
77th Pennsylvania:
Lieut. Col. Peter B. Housum.
Capt. Thomas E. Rose.
Third (late Fourth) Brigade.
Col. PHILEMON P. BALDWIN.
6th Indiana,
Lieut. Col. Hagerman Tripp.
5th Kentucky,
Lieut. Col. William W. Berry.
1st Ohio,
Maj. Joab A. Stafford.
93d Ohio.
Col. Charles Anderson.
5th Indiana Battery,
Capt. Peter Simonson.
1st Ohio, Battery A,
Lieut. Edmund B. Belding.
1st Ohio, Battery E,
Capt. Warren P. Edgarton.
3d Indiana, Companies G, H, I, and K,
Maj. Robert Klein.
Brig. Gen. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.
2d Kentucky Cavalry, Company L,
Lieut. Joseph T. Forman.
First (late Thirty-seventh) Brigade.
(1.) Brig. Gen. JOSHUA W. SILL.
(2.) Col. NICHOLAS GREUSEL.
36th Illinois:
Col. Nicholas Greusel.
Maj. Silas Miller.
Capt. Porter C. Olson.
88th Illinois,
Col. Francis T. Sherman.
21st Michigan,
Lieut. Col. William B. McCreery.
24th Wisconsin,
Maj. Elisha C. Hibbard.
Second (late Thirty-fifth ) Brigade
(1.) Col. FREDERICK SCHAEFER.
(2.) Lieut. Col. BERNARD LAIBOLDT.
44th Illinois,
Capt. Wallace W. Barrett.
73d Illinois,
Maj. William A. Presson.
2d Missouri:
Lieut. Col. Bernard Laiboldt.
Maj. Francis Ehrler.
15th Missouri,
Lieut. Col. John Weber.
Third Brigade.
(1.) Col. GEORGE W. ROBERTS.
(2.) Col. LUTHER P. BRADLEY.
22d Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Francis Swanwick.
Capt. Samuel Johnson.
27th Illinois:
Col. Fazilo A. Harrington.
Maj. William A. Schmitt.
42d Illinois,
Lieut. Col. Nathan H. Walworth.
51st Illinois:
Col. Luther P. Bradley.
Capt. Henry F. Wescott.
Capt. HENRY HESCOCK.
1st Illinois, Battery C,
Capt. Charles Houghtaling.
4th Indiana Battery,
Capt. Asahel K. Bush.
1st Missouri, Battery G,
Capt. Henry Hescock.
Maj. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS.
9th Michigan, Col. John G. Parkhurst.
Maj. Gen. LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU.
First (late Ninth) Brigade.
Col. BENJAMIN F. SCRIBNER.
38th Indiana,
Lieut. Col. Daniel F. Griffin.
2d Ohio:
Lieut. Col. John Kell.
Maj. Anson G. McCook.
33d Ohio,
Capt. Ephraim J. Ellis.
94th Ohio:
Col. Joseph W. Frizell.
Lieut. Col. Stephen A. Bassford.
10th Wisconsin,
Col. Alfred R. Chapin.
Second (late Seventeenth) Brigade.
Col. JOHN BEATTY.
42d Indiana,
Lieut. Col. James M. Shanklin.
88th Indiana:
Col. George Humphrey.
Lieut. Col. Cyrus E. Briant.
15th Kentucky:
Col. James B. Forman.
Lieut. Col. Joseph R. Snider.
3d Ohio,
Lieut. Col. Orris A. Lawson.
Third (late Twenty-eighth) Brigade.
Col. JOHN C. STARKWEATHER.
24th Illinois,
Col. Geza Mihalotzy.
79th Pennsylvania,
Col. Henry A. Hambright.
1st Wisconsin,
Lieut. Col. George B. Bingham.
21st Wisconsin,
Lieut. Col. Harrison C. Hobart.
Fourth Brigade.
Lieut. Col. OLIVER L. SHEPHERD.
15th United States, 1st Battalion:
Maj. John H. King.
Capt. Jesse Fulmer.
16th United States, 1st Battalion, and Company B, 2d Battalion:
Maj. Adam J. Slemmer.
Capt. R. E. A. Crofton.
18th United States, 1st Battalion, and Companies A and D, 3d Battalion,
Maj. James N. Caldwell.
18th United States, 2d Battalion, and Companies B, C, E, and F, 3d Battalion,
Maj. Frederick Townsend.
19th United States, 1st Battalion:
Maj. Stephen D. Carpenter.
Capt. James B. Mulligan.
Capt. CYRUS O. LOOMIS.
Kentucky, Battery A,
Capt. David C. Stone.
1st Michigan, Battery A,
Lieut. George W. Van Pelt.
5th United States, Battery H,
Lieut. Francis L. Guenther.
2d Kentucky (six companies).
Maj. Thomas P. Nicholas.
Brig. Gen. JAMES S. NEGLEY.
First (late Twenty-fifth) Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JAMBS G. SPEARS.
1st Tennessee,
Col. Robert K. Byrd.
2d Tennessee,
Lieut. Col. James M. Melton.
3d Tennessee,
Col. Leonidas C. Houk.
5th Tennessee,
Col. James T. Shelley.
6th Tennessee,
Col. Joseph A. Cooper.
Second (late Twenty-ninth) Brigade.
Col. TIMOTHY R. STANLEY.
19th Illinois:
Col. Joseph R. Scott.
Lieut. Col. Alexander W. Raffen.
11th Michigan,
Col. William L. Stoughton.
18h Ohio, Lieut.
Col. Josiah Given.
69th Ohio:
Col. William B. Cassilly.
Maj. Eli J. Hickcox.
Capt. David Putnam.
Capt. Joseph H. Brigham.
Lieut. Col. George F. Elliott.
Third (late Seventh ) Brigade.
Col. JOHN F. MILLER.
37th Indiana:
Col. James S. Hull.
Lieut. Col. William D. Ward.
21st Ohio, Lieut.
Col. James M. Neibling.
74th Ohio,
Col. Granville Moody.
78th Pennsylvania,
Col. William Sirwell.
Kentucky, Battery B,
Lieut. Alban A. Ellsworth.
1st Ohio, Battery G,
Lieut. Alexander Marshall.
1st Ohio, Battery M,
Capt. Frederick Schultz.
Brig. Gen. SPEED S. FRY.
2d Kentucky Cavalry, Company B,
Captain Henry E. Collins.
First Brigade.
Col. MOSES B. WALKER.
82d Indiana,
Col. Morton C. Hunter.
12th Kentucky,
Col. William A. Hoskins.
17th Ohio,
Col. John M. Connell.
31st Ohio,
Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Lister.
38th Ohio,
Col. Edward H. Phelps.
Second Brigade.
Col. JOHN M. HARLAN.
10th Indiana,
Col. William B. Carroll.
74th Indiana,
Col. Charles W. Chapman.
4th Kentucky,
Col. John T. Croxton.
10th Kentucky,
Lieut. Col. William H. Hays.
14th Ohio,
Col. George P. Este.
Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JAMES B. STEEDMAN.
87th Indiana,
Col. Kline G. Shryock.
2d Minnesota,
Col. James George.
9th Ohio,
Col. Gustave Kammerling.
35th Ohio,
Col. Ferdinand Van Derveer.
1st Michigan, Battery D,
Capt. Josiah W. Church.
1st Ohio, Battery C,
Capt. Daniel K. Southwick.
4th United States, Battery I,
Lieut. Frank G. Smith.
Brig. Gen. ROBERT B. MITCHEL.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JAMES D. MORGAN.
10th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. McLain F. Wood.
16th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. James B. Cahill.
60th Illinois,
Col. Silas C. Toler.
10th Michigan,
Lieut. Col. C. J. Dickerson.
14th Michigan:
Lieut. Col. Myndert W. Quackenbush.
Lieut. Col. Milton L. Phillips.
Second (late Thirty-sixth) Brigade.
Col. DANIEL McCOOK.
85th Illinois,
Col. Robert S. Moore.
86th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. David W Magee.
125th Illinois,
Col. Oscar F. Harmon.
52d Ohio,
Lieut. Col. D. D. T. Cowen.
2d Indiana. Company A,
Capt. John G. Kessler.
5th Kentucky,
Maj. John Q. Owsley.
3d Tennessee,
Col. William C. Pickens.
2d Illinois, Battery I,
Capt. Charles M. Barnett.
10th Wisconsin Battery,
Capt. Yates V. Beebe.)
Unattached Infantry.
8th Kansas (five companies),
Col. John A. Martin.
1st Middle (10th) Tennessee,
Col. Alvan C. Gillem.
Artillery Reserve.
11th Indiana Battery,
Capt. Arnold Sutermeister.
12th Indiana Battery,
Lieut. James A. Dunwoody.
1st Michigan, Battery E,
Capt. John J. Ely.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH J. REYNOLDS.
First (late Thirty-third) Brigade.
Col. ALBERT S. HALL.
80th Illinois,
Col. Thomas G. Allen.
123d Illinois,
Col. James Monroe.
101st Indiana,
Col. William Carver.
105th Ohio,
Lieut. Col. William R. Tolles.
Second (late Fortieth) Brigade.
Col. ABRAM O. MILLER.
98th Illinois,
Col. John J. Funkhouser.
17th Indiana,
Col. John T. Wilder.
72d Indiana,
Maj. Henry M. Cart.
75th Indiana,
Col. Milton S. Robinson.
18th Indiana Battery,
Capt. Eli Lilly.
19th Indiana Battery,
Capt. Samuel J. Harris.
Maj. Gen. THOMAS L. CRITTENDEN.
(1.) Brig. Gen. THOMAS J. WOOD.
(2.) Brig. Gen. MILO S. HASCALL.
First (late Fifteenth ) Brigade.
(1.) Brig. Gen. MILO S. HASCALL.
(2.) Col. GEORGE P. BUELL.
100th Illinois,
Col. Frederick A. Bartleson.
58th Indiana:
Col. George P. Buell.
Lieut. Col. James T. Embree.
3d Kentucky:
Col. Samuel McKee.
Maj. Daniel R. Collier.
26th Ohio,
Capt. William H. Squires.
Second (late Twenty-first) Brigade.
Col. GEORGE D. WAGNER.
15th Indiana,
Lieut. Col. Gustavus A. Wood.
40th Indiana:
Col. John W. Blake.
Lieut. Col. Elias Neff.
Maj. Henry Learning.
57th Indiana:
Col. Cyrus C. Hines.
Lieut. Col. George W. Lennard.
Capt. John S. McGraw.
97th Ohio,
Col. John Q. Lane.
Third (late Twentieth) Brigade.
Col. CHARLES G. HARKER.
51st Indiana,
Col. Abel D. Streight.
73d Indiana,
Col. Gilbert Hathaway.
13th Michigan,
Col. Michael Shoemaker.
64th Ohio,
Lieut. Col. Alexander McIlvain.
65th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Alexander Cassil.
Maj. Horatio N. Whitbeck.
Maj. SEYMOUR RACE.
8th Indiana Battery,
Lieut George Estep.
10th Indiana Battery,
Capt. Jerome B. Cox.
6th Ohio Battery,
Capt. Cullen Bradley.
Brig. Gen. JOHN M. PALMER.
First (late Twenty-second) Brigade.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES CRUFT.
31st Indiana,
Col. John Osborn.
1st Kentucky,
Col. David A. Enyart.
2d Kentucky,
Col. Thomas D. Sedgeswick.
90th Ohio,
Col. Isaac N. Ross.
Second (late Nineteenth ) Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM B. HAZEN.
110th Illinois,
Col. Thomas S. Casey.
9th Indiana,
Col. William H. Blake.
6th Kentucky,
Col. Walter C. Whitaker.
41st Ohio,
Lieut Col. Aquila Wiley.
Third (late Tenth) Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM GROSE.
84th Illinois,
Col. Louis H. Waters.
36th Indiana:
Maj. Isaac Kinley.
Capt. Pyrrhus Woodward.
23d Kentucky,
Maj. Thomas H. Hamrick.
6th Ohio,
Col. Nicholas L. Anderson.
24th Ohio:
Col. Frederick C. Jones.
Maj. Henry Terry.
Capt. Enoch Weller.
Capt. A. T. M. Cockerill.
Capt. WILLIAM E. STANDART.
1st Ohio, Battery B,
Capt. William E Standart.
1st Ohio, Battery F:
Capt. Daniel T. Cockerill.
Lieut. Norval Osburn.
4th United States, Batteries H and M,
Lieut. Charles C. Parsons.
(1.) Brig. Gen. HORATIO P. VAN CLEVE.
(2.) Col. SAMUEL BEATTY.
First (late Eleventh ) Brigade.
(1.) Col. SAMUEL BEATTY.
(2.) Col. BENJAMIN C. GRIDER.
79th Indiana,
Col. Frederick Knefler.
9th Kentucky:
Col. Benjamin C. Grider.
Lieut. Col. George H. Cram.
11th Kentucky,
Maj. Erasmus L. Mottley.
19th Ohio,
Maj. Charles F. Manderson.
Second (late Fourteeth) Brigade.
Col. JAMES P. FYFFE.
44th Indiana:
Col. William C. Williams.
Lieut. Col. Simeon C. Aldrich.
86th Indiana,
Lieut. Col. George F. Dick.
13th Ohio:
Col. Joseph G. Hawkins.
Maj. Dwight Jarvis, jr.
59th Ohio,
Lieut. Col. William Howard.
Third (late Twenty-third) Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL W. PRICE.
35th Indiana,
Col. Bernard F. Mullen.
8th Kentucky:
Lieut. Col. Reuben May.
Maj. Green B. Broaddus.
21st Kentucky,
Lieut. Col. James C. Evans.
51st Ohio,
Lieut. Col. Richard W. McClain.
99th Ohio:
Col. Peter T. Swaine.
Lieut. Col. John E. Cummins.
Capt. GEORGE R. SWALLOW.
7th Indiana Battery,
Capt. George R. Swallow.
Pennsylvania, Battery B (26th),
Lieut. Alanson J. Stevens.
3d Wisconsin Battery,
Lieut. Cortland Livingston.
Brig. Gen. DAVID S. STANLEY.
Col. JOHN KENNETT.
First Brigade.
Col. ROBERT H. G. MINTY.
2d Indiana, Company M,
Capt. J. A. S. Mitchell.
3d Kentucky,
Col. Eli H. Murray.
4th Michigan,
Lieut. Col. William H. Dickinson.
7th Pennsylvania,
Maj. John E. Wynkoop.
Second Brigade.
Col. LEWIS ZAHM.
1st Ohio:
Col. Minor Milliken.
Maj. James Laughlin.
3d Ohio, Lieut.
Col. Douglas A. Murray.
4th Ohio,
Maj. John L. Pugh.
1st Ohio, Battery D (section),
Lieut. Nathaniel M. Newell.
15th Pennsylvania:
Maj. Adolph G. Rosengarten.
Maj. Frank B. Ward.
Capt. Alfred Vezin.
1st Middle (5th) Tennessee,
Col. William B. Stokes.
2d Tennessee,
Col. Daniel M. Ray.
4th U.S. Cavalry, Capt. Elmer Otis.
Capt. JAMES ST. C. MORTON.
1st Battalion,
Capt. Lyman Bridges.
2d Battalion,
Capt. Calvin Hood.
3d Battalion,
Capt. Robert Clements.
Illinois Light Artillery, Stokes' battery,
Capt. James H. Stokes.
1st Michigan,
Col. William P. Innes.
Brig. Gen. ELEAZER A. PAINE.
Ward' s (late Eighth ) Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM T. WARD.
102d Illinois,
Lieut. Col. Frank C. Smith.
105th Illinois,
Lieut. Col. Henry F. Vallette.
70th Indiana,
Col. Benjamin Harrison.
79th Ohio,
Col. Henry G. Kennett.
Indiana Light Artillery, 13th Battery,
Capt. Benjamin S. Nicklin.
1st Kentucky,
Col. Frank Wolford.
7th Kentucky,
Lieut. Col. John K. Faulkner.
11th Kentucky,
Lieut. Col. William E. Riley.


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For children, Disney movies create especially powerful emotions. But how can something you SEE make you FEEL? Creative people know It all Starts With Art!
With kids of their own, a group of former Disney animators wanted to teach them to SEE the world as they do – to learn the tips, tricks and techniques that artists have used throughout history to communicate visually.
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The latest movie of the Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke, Hidden (aka Caché) is probably his best so far, much superior to his last two, the empty post-nuclear holocaust Time of the Wolf and the hollow, masochistic The Piano Teacher. It is what Umberto Eco calls an open work, a film that viewers are invited, indeed compelled, to engage with and contribute to, as opposed to a closed text which resolves everything and leaves you to just hear, read or watch passively. The movie pursues a couple of Haneke's continuing obsessions - most notably middle-class liberal guilt and the way electronic images are competing with reality for our attention. And it follows on from his first French-language movie, Code Unknown (1990), also set in Paris and also starring Juliette Binoche, which ended with an unforgettably unnerving sequence in which an angry young Arab torments Binoche on a train in the Paris Metro.
The movie begins like David Lynch's Lost Highway with a man being disconcerted by the receipt of a mysterious video cassette left on his doorstep by an anonymous tormentor who seems to be observing his every move. It ends in the manner of Antonioni's The Passenger, where a paranoid protagonist (Jack Nicholson in The Passenger, Daniel Auteuil in Hidden) settles down to a troubled sleep to be followed by a hypnotic long take that seems to explain things but in fact leaves us more disturbed than ever.
Auteuil plays Georges Laurent, a French literary celebrity with his own TV book show (a figure inspired by Bernard Pivot). He's married to the beautiful Anne (Juliette Binoche), an editor with a prestigious Parisian publishing house, and they have a 12-year-old son Pierrot, a champion swimmer. Suddenly their complacently happy existence is thrown into disarray when they're sent a series of video cassettes of their home, followed by others that suggest an intimate knowledge of Georges's early life. The cassettes are accompanied by childish drawings of a boy spewing blood and a cockerel with blood flowing from its neck.
Are they the subject of a practical joke? Can Pierrot and some prankster schoolboys be behind it? Or is it something more sinister? The police can do nothing to help. But from the start there are hints that there is a guilty secret in Georges's past connected with an Arab boy whose Algerian parents some 40 years ago worked on the estate in southern France owned by Georges's mother and father. One of the tapes leads to Georges tracking down this boy, now a man in early middle age, whom he hasn't seen for decades. Accusations fly and denials are made in an angry confrontation. A dangerous rift ensues when Georges conceals things from Anne, and his job is threatened by the possibility of revelations in the media.
Haneke once made an impressive film version of Kafka's The Castle, and Hidden is distinctly Kafkaesque, a story quivering with existential dread. Every little incident sets Georges on edge. An angry encounter with a black cyclist in the street nearly touches off a fistfight. An urban legend passed off as a real experience at the dinner table upsets him. An empty street is charged with menace. Everything that was once orderly starts to strike the audience as odd. A TV set increasingly appears to dominate a book-lined sitting room. Rows of fake books without titles that form the backdrop to the studio discussions Georges chairs cease to be décor and take on the menacing aspect of an expressionist nightmare.
While Georges is clearly paranoid, he truly has something to be paranoid about. His guilt derives from an incident that occurred when he was six, but it reflects a larger malaise connected to the events surrounding the Algerian war and the country's treatment of Arabs abroad and in France. What he suppresses is something the whole nation has been driving down into its collective subconscious. So while Hidden is a gripping thriller, it is almost a moral and political enquiry into colonialism and its aftermath. The acting all around is outstanding, with Auteuil and Binoche working beautifully together as their marriage falls apart, expressing their emotional upheaval through the slight movement of an eye or the flicker of a lip. This is a movie that takes one back to the glory days of art-house films in the 1960s and 70s, when you left the cinema not in need of food and drink, but a sympathetic person to discuss the film with.


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Ready, Set, Learn Series
This series from Teacher Created Resources provides engaging activities and fun-filled practice pages for beginning students. Covering a variety of topics, the small-format workbooks (7" x 9") are reproducible, and most include cute black and white graphics. Books dealing with writing provide wide lines with dotted midlines, while the other books have matching activities, fill-in-the-blanks, coloring, and more. Activities in each individual book don't vary a whole lot, as there are many similar exercises so students get plenty of practice with each skill. The basic activity books cover both writing and numbers. The dot to dot books contain only dot to dot pages, where students follow the numbers or letters to create fun scenes. Each worksheet shouldn't take long to complete (usually 4-5 things to do), so they're perfect for quick enrichment exercises. The books are geared toward slightly different grade levels, but all of them follow the same format. Each book also includes more than 150 small, colorful stickers to use in decorating the pages, rewarding good worksheets, or keeping track of completed pages. An award chart is also included for when a child finishes the book. With simple worksheets, many skills covered, and fun incentive stickers, this series provides a great way to reinforce and practice beginning skills. 64 pgs, pb. ~ Rachel


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See Britney Spears Best Smiles
Britney Spears has changed her look many times throughout the years -- blonde, brunette, shaved head, bangs, center-parted and extensions. She has also had her emotional ups and down, with her husbands, kids, boyfriends, managers, parents and the paparazzi. There has been one constant through it all and that's Brit Brit's warm and winning smile!
As she inched towards her late 20s and early 30s, things leveled out and calmed down for the sexpot superstar both personally and professionally. She is a proud mom of two, is still putting out great dance music and continues doing her thang!
We've compiled our favorite shots of Britney and her infectious, enviable, toothy smile here. Her smile is so pretty and like a dose of sunshine in our day! And she has a really good dentist.


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The insidious effort to buy bloggers' voice and credibility in the name of buzz just won't stop. So I want to make my own blogger's pledge to you:
1. No one can buy my editorial voice or opinion.
2. No one can buy my editorial space; if it's an ad it will clearly be an ad.
3. No one should be confused about the source of anything on my pages.
4. I will disclose my business relationships whenever it is relevant and possible.
This is what I learned working in the newspapers and magazines. A wise editor at Time Inc. boiled down all the church-v-state company and industry rules and policies into those first three tenets above; the fourth, I added. This is how we assure our independence from advertisers and financial interests. This is how we earn our credibility.
It is fine for a blogger or newspaper or vlogger or TV show to take advertising, clearly labeled. It is wonderful for a blogger to get paid to write, editorially. But when you write what a commercial interest tells you and pays you to write, then you are no longer speaking as yourself but in the service of that marketer. That's fine, too, but it isn't content. It is advertising (or advertorial, same difference). See Rules 2 and 3.
This all seems simple and obvious to me. But it's not obvious to others, who think they can buy bloggers' opinions and with it that buzz. They don't understand that buzz, too, is earned. And they don't understand that once a blogger — or journalist or publication or friend, for that matter — is bought and paid for, the credibility and value of their voice is reduced or ruined.
Credibility is the cake you can't have and eat, too.
The problem with this is that it doesn't affect just one blogger. Bloggers' detractors love to measure us by our lowest common denominator: if one snarks, all snark; if one sells out, all sell out. This is why Jason Calicanis calls it a cancer.
Calacanis has been tilting at this windmill, calling out PayPerPost very effectively. He is optimistic that they have seen the error of their ways but I'm not so sure. PayPerPost brags about this blogger earning $1,000. And so I read her blog and have no idea whether to trust that her opinions are her own or those of her paymaster: Does she really like these flip-flops, this security system, Disney, or FTD flowers, or Bath & Bodyworks? I have no way of knowing because she doesn't say who's paying her. Not that I'm in the market for a motorcycle, but I wouldn't trust her opinion if I were.
And then there is the shameful lapse of Edelman, who said they were blog-savvy and transparent but turned out to be paying for a trip by a blogger and a Washington Post photographer, ferchrissakes, across America and extolling Wal-Mart's big heart. Richard Edelman finally apologized. But now they make me wonder what else they're quietly engineering. I find it cold comfort that the signed the Word of Mouth Marketing Association's ethics policy; I find it discomfiting that there is such an association. That's word of our mouths they're talking about.
And I have recently received at least two request from advertisers, via sales agents, to have me and other bloggers write things about their products. Each one came with a think layer of lipstick on the pig — for example, the writing may appear on another site. But they're still trying to pay me to write about their product. I passed up $5,000 for the latest offer, which is a good deal more than what I've been getting lately for other ads you see here. But turning it down was easy. See Rule No. 1.
Now understand well that I end up doing business with marketers, directly and indirectly via ads and employers. Edelman paid me to come speak at a corporate meeting and that has been on my disclosures page. I got six months' use of a Sprint phone; they didn't ask me to write about it but I told you about the campaign and then gave the phone away. I've just advised an advertiser and its agency on buying ads on blogs and I made it clear to them that I will disclose that when they come out with it. I ended up accidentally giving another advertiser free advice — and passed up revenue again — when I told them they should not try to market by spamming Wikipedia; since I didn't end up doing business with them, I'll spare them embarrassment of saying who they were. None of these people will buy my opinions. See Rule No. 1. And I will be transparent about my dealings with them. See Rule No. 4.
But this isn't about ethics pledges and industry policies. It's about personal integrity, about honesty, about having a direct and open relationship of trust and credibility. You may disagree with my opinions — and, oh, you do — but you should at least be assured that they are mine.
: LATER: Via a link to this post, I just saw a data base allowing bloggers to get things free for review. I don't object to that. Journalists get free books, screenings, food, and at least use of devices for review. And bloggers can't afford to do what Consumer Reports does and buy everything it tests. The opportunity for corruption still exists: 'If I give bad reviews, I won't get the stuff anymore.' But if you give nothing but good reviews as a result, your credibility and value with, again, suffer. So I believe in revealing the source review material.
: Meanwhile note that CBS just paid $2 million to settle accusations of pay-per-play.


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President Obama to Announce New Efforts to Support Manufacturing Innovation, Encourage Insourcing
Administration Proposes New National Network to Support Manufacturing, Takes Immediate Action to Create a Pilot Manufacturing Institute
On Friday, President Obama will continue to highlight the successful trend of insourcing – companies from around the world bringing jobs back and making new investments here in the United States – at the Rolls-Royce Crosspointe jet engine disc manufacturing facility in Prince George County, Virginia. The President's Blueprint for An Economy Built to Last lays out a number of ways we can encourage insourcing, support investment in our manufacturing sector, and create good jobs here in the United States, and today's announcements build on those efforts.
The President will announce a new proposal for a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, to build a network of up to fifteen Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation around the country, serving as regional hubs of manufacturing excellence that will help to make our manufacturers more competitive and encourage investment in the United States. The President's Budget proposes a $1 billion investment to create this new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation.
The President will also announce that the Administration will take immediate steps to launch a pilot institute for manufacturing innovation as part of its We Can't Wait efforts. The pilot institute will be funded from $45 million of existing resources from the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Commerce and the National Science Foundation, and will be selected from a competitive application process.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe jet engine disc manufacturing facility the President will visit is an example of how insourcing means companies from around the world are creating new, good paying jobs here at home. The company is planning to add 140 new jobs at Crosspointe and more than 100 additional jobs in Indiana manufacturing components for commercial aircraft engines. Crosspointe is a center of advanced manufacturing and innovation that demonstrates collaboration can spur American jobs and competitiveness.
Over the past two years, the U.S. manufacturing sector has added more than 400,000 jobs, the first period of sustained job growth since the 1990s. The President's proposals to revitalize American manufacturing build on that momentum and recognize that a growing and vibrant manufacturing sector is central to our ability to innovate, to export, and to create good-paying American jobs. Over the previous decade manufacturing production and investment stalled, and we lost ground to our competitors. To create an economy that is built to last, we must ensure that the next generation of products are not only invented here, but manufactured here as well.
To meet this challenge the President will announce a new $1 billion proposal, the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. The President's proposal will catalyze a network of up to fifteen Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation around the country. The Institutes will bring together industry, universities and community colleges, federal agencies, and our states to accelerate innovation by investing in industrially-relevant manufacturing technologies with broad applications to bridge the gap between basic research and product development, provide shared assets to help companies – particularly small manufacturers – access cutting-edge capabilities and equipment, and create an unparalleled environment to educate and train students and workers in advanced manufacturing skills. Each Institute will serve as a regional hub of manufacturing excellence, providing the innovation infrastructure to support regional manufacturing hubs and ensuring that our manufacturing sector is a key pillar in an economy that is built to last. This model has been successfully deployed in other countries and represents a gap in the U.S. manufacturing innovation infrastructure that the President's proposal will address.
The Institutes will each have a well-defined technology focus to address industrially-relevant manufacturing challenges on a large scale and to provide the capabilities and facilities required to reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies. While the Institutes would be competitively selected, several areas of innovation illustrate the opportunities that this proposal could help to realize:
- Developing lightweight materials, such as low-cost carbon fiber composites (CFC's), that will improve fuel efficiency, performance, and corrosion resistance of the next generation of automobiles, aircraft, ships and trains.
- Refining standards, materials, and equipment for "3-D printing"(also known as additive manufacturing) to enable low-cost, small batch production using digital designs that can be transmitted from designers located anywhere.
- Creating a smart manufacturing infrastructure and approaches that lets operators make real-time use of "big data" flows from fully-instrumented plants in order to improve productivity, optimize supply chains, and improve energy, water, and materials use.
The new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation will work to leverage new investment from industry, state and local government, and the research community. This initiative will be a collaboration between Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy.
The President also announced the launch of a pilot institute with an initial federal investment of $45 million from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and the National Science Foundation. The pilot will demonstrate the type the collaboration planned for the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. The pilot will be selected through a competitive process that uses existing resources and fits within the agencies' statutory missions, using current funding and authorities, while addressing key challenges faced by the U.S. manufacturing sector.
The pilot institute will address a focused technology area to reduce the risk and cost of commercializing and scaling-up new manufacturing products and processes. At least $30 million in total funding from the Departments of Defense, Energy and Commerce will support investments in advanced manufacturing equipment and research activities, $5 million in funding from NSF will support basic research in advanced manufacturing and the workforce development component of the pilot, in part under the NSF Advanced Technological Education program, and $10 million in funding from the Department of Defense will support scaling-up production of technologies developed from the pilot institute in support of critical national defense needs. This approach reflects a unique degree of inter-agency coordination around a shared goal to promote the President's manufacturing agenda without need for Congressional action.
Crosspointe demonstrates the potential for supporting U.S. manufacturing through this type of collaboration model. Later this summer, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) will open its doors, an applied research center developed in partnership between eight companies including Rolls-Royce, the state of Virginia, three leading Virginia universities, and an investment from Commerce's Economic Development Administration. CCAM, like the proposed Institutes, bridges the gap from basic research to product development and supports the skills needed for an advanced manufacturing workforce.
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Successful periodontal therapy may reduce the risk of preterm birth
A collaboration led by a periodontal researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine has found a possible link between the success of gum-disease treatment and the likelihood of giving birth prematurely, according to a study published in the journal BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
While a number of factors are associated with an increased rate of preterm birth, such as low body-mass index, alcohol consumption and smoking, the study adds to the body of research that suggests oral infection may also be associated with such an increase.
The study looked at 322 pregnant women, all with gum disease. Half the group was given oral-hygiene instruction and treated with scaling and root planning, which consists of cleaning above and below the gum line. The second half received only oral-hygiene instruction.
The incidence of preterm birth was high in both the treatment group and the untreated group: 52.4 percent of the women in the untreated control group had a preterm baby compared with 45.6 percent in the treatment group. These differences were not statistically significant.
However, researchers then looked at whether the success of periodontal treatment was associated with the rate of preterm birth. Participants were examined 20 weeks after the initial treatment, and success was characterized by reduced inflammation, no increase in probing depth and loosening of the teeth.
Within the treatment group of 160 women, 49 were classified as having successful gum treatment and only four, or 8 percent, had a preterm baby. In comparison, 111 women had unsuccessful treatment and 69, or 62 percent, had preterm babies.
The results show that pregnant women who were resistant to the effects of scaling and root planning were significantly more likely to deliver preterm babies than those for whom it was successful.
The mean age of the women in the study was 23.7 years; 87.5 percent were African-American, and 90 percent had not seen a dentist for tooth cleaning.
"First and foremost, this study shows that pregnant women can receive periodontal treatment safely in order to improve their oral health," said Marjorie Jeffcoat, professor of periodontics at Penn Dental Medicine and lead author of the paper. "Second, in a high risk group of pregnant women, such as those patients who participated in this study, successful periodontal treatment when rendered as an adjunct to conventional obstetric care may reduce the incidence of preterm birth."
Future papers will address the role of antimicrobial mouth rinses in reducing the incidence of preterm birth.
"Researchers have previously suggested that severe gum infections cause an increase in the production of prostaglandin and tumour necrosis factor, chemicals which are associated with preterm labor," Philip Steer, editor-in-chief of BJOG, said. "This new study shows a strong link between unsuccessful gum-disease treatment and preterm birth; however, we need to bear in mind that 69 percent of women failed to respond to the dental treatment given. Therefore, more effective treatment will need to be devised before we can be sure that successful treatment improves outcome, rather than simply being a marker of pregnancies with a lower background level of inflammation that will go to term anyway."