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It's the hottest invitation in technology right now -- an e-mail telling you how to "learn more about Google+." If you get one, though, be careful about clicking on it. It may be spam.
Security vendor Sophos says that pharmaceutical spammers have recently started to cash in on the popularity of Google's Facebook alternative by pushing out fake invitations to the Google+ social service.
"The messages look similar to the real emails that users may receive from friends who are already members of Google+," wrote Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley in a Friday blog post. "However, clicking on the links will not take you to the new social network, but instead take you to a pharmacy website set up to sell the likes of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra."
Google introduced its new service on Tuesday. Early members were encouraged to invite their friends, but on Wednesday Google stopped adding new members because of the "insane demand," according to Vic Gundotra, the senior vice president of Google's social media group.
Spammers are always looking to cash in on the latest news trends, but with these fake Google+ invites, they've lucked into an ideal scam. Many people are eager to click on Google+ to see exactly what the service is all about.
"The spammers are no doubt hoping that the email will be too hard to resist for many people eager to see Google's new social network, although just how many users will be tempted to buy drugs online is a mystery," said Cluley.
Robert McMillan covers computer security and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Robert on Twitter at @bobmcmillan. Robert's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Skimmers tend pad as big bird lifts off
June 15, 1998
The Tampa Tribune
By April Simun
Cape Canaveral – Spread out your towel. Dig your feet in the sand. But be careful – a day at the beach can mean fowl play.
Bird watchers hope beachgoers don't disrupt the nesting of black skimmers, birds whose declining numbers are cause for alarm.
The black-backed, white-bellied birds are in the peak of their nesting season. They have been spotted everywhere from Gulf beaches to the back yard of NASA's launch pad.
"It's one of the harder birds to protect in the area because they must nest in the same type of habitats people like," said Ann Schnapf, assistant manager of the National Audubon Society's Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuary.
"For the person, it is just a day on the beach. For the bird, it is an entire reproductive season."
Larry Templeton has made it his mission to guard the birds that nest in his jurisdiction. He was hired 11 years ago to guard the Kennedy Space Center's media parking lot during NASA events.
During the most recent launch of the space shuttle Discovery, Templeton guarded more than cars.
He watched over three nests of skimmers, which are on the state's species of special concern list. Such a listing means the birds aren't as rare as endangered or threatened species, but their numbers either are declining or at such a low level that they need protection.
"I'm not going to let anyone around there," Templeton said, pointing to the coned-off areas of the parking lot. Each had a sand-filled pothole, where birds had laid their 3-inch-long speckled eggs.
"They look for indentations in the parking lot, and they just lay their eggs in that," he said.
Parent birds had abandoned two of the three nests well before the time Discovery was launched.
In the 90 degrees-plus heat of the Florida sun, unprotected eggs don't stand much chance of hatching. The eggs can fry in a little as 20 minutes, Schnapf said.
Templeton looked with pride at the one faithful skimmer couple still guarding four eggs.
"Those eggs are going to hatch," he said.
Although Templeton is helping the birds' chances, single nesting pairs are more vulnerable to predators than those in the usual nesting colonies, Schnapf said.
"You don't have those other adults to help defend their area," she said. "If you pull your boat up on a shore where a colony is nesting, all the birds would get up and yell at you. They'd all bark at you together."
She said the skimmers, which got their name because they use their elongated bills to skim fish and small crustaceans from water surfaces, picked the parking lot as their home because it meets their nesting criteria: It's flat, sandy and plantless, with lots of gravel and water.
Even more birds nest in the Tampa Bay area than on Merritt Island, where the space center is located, said Schnapf, who is based in Tampa. In fact, about two-thirds of the 2,000 black skimmers found in Florida last year were in the Tampa Bay area.
Their reproductive season runs from late April to the end of August. During the time, females lay between one and five eggs each and incubate them for about three weeks.
Adult birds guard the nests until well after the young ones have learned to fly, about a month after hatching.
In recent years, bird-watchers have identified large colonies on a 3-D Island and Sand Key, near the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, where Schnapf said warnings are posted to keep tourists out of nesting areas.
"Nesting colonies should all be posted," she said. "People should respect those colonies and keep their dogs out of them. If we can take the human factor out, then we give the birds a fighting chance."
A fighting chance is what Templeton hopes to give the NASA birds.


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OCEAN CITY – The 9th Annual K-Coast/Reef Surf Challenge drew 105 of the top surfing competitors from Florida through New York to compete for a trip to Barbados and more than $10,000 in prizes at 35th Street in Ocean City last Sunday.
A solid chest to head-high north swell with light sideshore winds created excellent conditions for the athletes to put on a great show.
Lucas Rogers of Virginia Beach, Va. blew away the competition and took home more than $1,000 in prizes including a trip to Barbados and an entry to compete in the Reef Bowl Surf Invitational.
Rogers' powerful surfing and huge aerial maneuvers in the Open Shortboard final made him the clear winner in a completely stacked final. Toby Smith of West Babylon, N.Y. also out-surfed his competition in the Open Longboard division by pulling off a huge lip bashing 360 in the final. The Grom division (14 and under) saw a much closer race for the title with Julian Payne of Kitty Hawk, N.C. just edging out Sean Santiago of Wildwood Crest, N.J. Kate Easton of Virginia Beach, Va. also had a close final with Rachel Harrell of Ocean View, Del., but Easton managed to pull off some stronger moves to win the huge first place prize package.
Six of the top competitors performed a tow-at-air show demo for the spectators. Surfers were towed, by jet ski, into the chest to head-high waves to blast gigantic aerial maneuvers. Matt Keenan of Ocean City, N.J. and Rogers boosted the highest airs, but Raven Lundy of Virginia Beach, Va. took top honors in the demo by actually landing the biggest aerial.
K-Coast Surf Shops in Ocean City, Maryland along with the Eastern Surfing Association created this event nine years ago as an annual fundraiser for the Ocean City Career Firefighters and Paramedics Association. This year's event raised approximately $2,000. Other event sponsors were Xcel Wetsuits, Smith Optics, Freestyle, Dakine, Barrett Chevrolet, 7S Surfboards, 6 Star Surfboards, Webber, Red Sun Custom Apparel, Modern Longboards, Studio S Jewelry, 93.5 the Beach, Global Surf Industries and Belly Busters.
The next event for the Delmarva District of the Eastern Surfing Association is the Ho-Ho Surf Off on Dec. 8 in Delaware at North Side Indian River Inlet or Tower Road State Park.
The results from last weekend's event are listed below in order of finish.
Open Shortboard (all ages): Lucas Rogers of Virginia Beach, Va., Raven Lundy of Virginia Beach, Va., Michael Dunphy of Virginia Beach, Va., Matt Keenan of Ocean City, N.J., Slater Powell of Topsail Island, N.C. and Drex Harrington of Ocean City.
Open Longboard (all ages): Toby Smith of West Babylon, N.Y., Colin Herlihy of Frankford, Del., Art Baltrotsky of Berlin, Jake Buchler of Fenwick Island, Chris Vaxmonsky of Berlin and Spencer Ashton of Berlin.
Grom (boys/girls 14 & under): Julian Payne of Kitty Hawk, N.C., Sean Santiago of Wildwood Crest, N.J., Caleb Buchler of Fenwick Island, Del., Brady Dashiell of Salisbury, Rachel Harrell of Ocean View, Del. and Austin Deppe of Bishopville, Md.
Girls (all ages): Kate Easton of Virginia Beach, Va., Rachel Harrell of Ocean View, Del., Kaitlyn Curran of Berlin, Laurel Harrington of Berlin, Kelcey Bodolus of Berlin and Mindy Logan of Rehoboth Beach.
Tow-At-Air Show: Raven Lundy of Virginia Beach, Va., Matt Keenan of Ocean City, N.J. and Lucas Rogers of Virginia Beach, Va.


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For the week ending 1 February 2003 / 29 Shevat 5763
Uziyahu The Freed King
In the Kidron Valley in East Jerusalem one can still see, right next to Yad Avshalom, the column remaining from the Beit Hachofshet. This was the House of Freedom to which King Uziyahu was assigned after becoming a metzora as punishment for usurping the privilege of offering incense in the Beit Hamikdash that was reserved for kohanim.
A metzora could not reside within the walls of Jerusalem, so his kingly duties were assumed by his son Yotam. Since the responsibilities of a king were so burdensome, his forced release from this burden was seen as a sort of freedom which became the title for his residence.


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The Power of the Press: The First Amendment
Lesson At A Glance
This standards-based lesson is one of several on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in fifth grade. Students will understand our rights and how the legal system functions through the lens of an actual historical trial, The Haymarket Case of 1886 that showcases the different checks and balances with the system. Students will understand how the media influenced public opinion and influenced the court's decision.
- Students will deepen their understanding of integral historical events, persons, and documents in shaping our rights and freedoms as citizens today.
- Students will deepen understanding of how the branches of government and media influence our liberty.
- Students will begin to develop and apply skills in using visual arts as a form of communication.
California Content Standards
This lesson is designed to address the following California State Board of Education's content standards for History-Social Science and English/Language Arts. For more information on the standards, or to see the complete list, please visit: www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
Social Studies and History Standards:
3. Understand the fundamental principles of American constitutional democracy, including how the government derives its power from the people and the primacy of individual liberty.
4. Understand how the constitution is designed to secure our liberty by both empowering and limiting central government and compare the powers granted to citizens, congress, the president, and the Supreme Court with those reserved to the states.
5. Discuss the meaning of the American creed that calls on citizens to safeguard the liberty of individual Americans within a unified nation, to respect the rule of law, and to preserve the Constitution.
Visual Art Standards:
2.7 Communicate values, opinions, or personal insights through an original work of art.
4.1 Identify how selected principles of design are used in a work of art and how they affect personal responses to and evaluation of the work of art.
Common Core State Standards for ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing K-5
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Big Ideas:
- The political process involves participation; understanding requires student engagement. (Integration and application of new learning in multiple learning modalities helps students deepen understanding).
- The strength of a democracy is equal to the strength of its citizens. (We must understand, participate in, and further develop our system of government to ensure democracy).
- E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one. (From a variety of sources and experiences, we have developed a successful government and legal system).
Essential Questions/Issues:
- What does it mean to be an American citizen?
- Is citizenship a right or a responsibility?
- Does social capital strengthen a republic?
Higher Order Thinking Questions:
- Do you think the media influences court cases too much today? (Evaluation, Synthesis)
- Do you believe it is possible for the judicial system to maintain its independence from political views, public pressure, and the media? Why or why not? (Evaluation, Synthesis)
- How do court cases affect the strength of our democracy? (Synthesis, Analysis)
Students will be evaluated through informal checks for understanding, teacher observation, self-reflections, and performing an authentic task (GRASP) evaluated by a rubric.
Click here to download assessment tools.
Activity Steps:
This lesson should be divided into 2-3 class periods per teacher discretion and student need.
Click here to download activity steps
Hook Engage students
5 minutes
|It all depends on your pt. of view…personal story (hook)
Segue into…review of Chicago background in 1880, social class struggles, economics, rise of unions, immigration issues.
|Listen, observe, take notes, ask questions
|Show iMovie of Haymarket Case
View film and PowerPoint, ask clarifying questions as needed.
Add to discussion.
10 minutes
|Powerpoint "What went wrong?"
Review major points of case problems…
Jury Selection
Public opinion fueled by media
Chain of command influenced
Review rubric/grasp and one
Political cartoon pointing out 5 features.
Pass out press kits and cartooning supplies for research/application time at table groups.
|Each person should choose a defendant they want to portray from the perspective of anti-labor or pro-labor paper. Table groups review press kits and rubrics as needed.
Design and create cartoons as individuals or partners (student choice).
10 minutes
|Segue into how this case showed media influencing the courts. Could this happen today? Look at Cheney cartoon…discuss as table groups.
Hand out reflections…"Do you think the media influences court cases too much today? What is your opinion? Explain your thinking…"
Discuss as whole group…
Close: depends on pt. of view
|Write a reflection of new understandings.
|Next Lesson
|Presentations of cartoons for Jury of Peers
|Students present their designs and why the choices were made to show pt. of view persuasively in art.
Special Needs of students are considered in this lesson:
Students are put into flexible grouping scenarios that will benefit learning for all types of learners and special needs. Hands-on learning with plenty of visuals, opportunities for movement, verbal, written, and nonverbal expression, and multiple learning modalities are available within the context of this lesson. The opportunity for student choice creates an embedded differentiation opportunity as well as student ownership of learning.
Extension Ideas:
- Students can recreate court case reading transcripts from the www.law.umkc.edu website address.
- Students can debate current political cartoon content
- Students find current local articles about cases that have a possible impact on our rights as citizens.
Materials and Resources Needed:
- Screen
- Laptop or PC
- External speakers
- Press kits
- Sharpies
- Tracing paper
- Printer paper
- Pre-cut 8" x 10" black mats
- iMovie of Haymarket case
- Powerpoint
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm Website of Prof. Douglas Linder of University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. This webpage has 30+ cases complete w/images, transcripts, judgments, timelines, media sources that have been prominent in our history.
This is the website that has the biographies of the defendants used in the press kits.
www.chicagohistory.org The Chicago Historical Society webpage has numerous trial records, photos, media publications, artworks, chronologies, etc. regarding local cases and histories.
Chicago Anarchists on Trial (Library of congress: "American Memory" Project) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html transcripts, map.
The Haymarket Riot of 1886 (Chicago Public Library) http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/004chicago/timeline/haymarket.html
Haymarket, Martin Duberman, Novel set against the Haymarket tragedy. (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
www.crystalproductions.com Great visual art site for supplies and posters.
www.dickblick.com Order tracing paper through this source for best value.
www.bagsunlimited.com/ Site to order pre-cut black mats for students (approximately $1 ea)
Student Handouts:
Download student handouts here
Outline of the Unit Plan:
This unit is designed to focus on the fifth grade standards in Social Science and Visual Art. These include: student learning, analysis, and understanding of historical documents (The Constitution and Bill of Rights). Students begin to understand the significance of events and historical figures (as seen through case law studies) in shaping what we have as a government today. Students will also learn about, experiment with, and critique visual art skills related to historical documentation, media persuasion, and how art can be both a catalyst and a reflection of our society.


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I'm madder than a goose sucked into a jet engine! So the White House had the great idea to take pictures of the President's plane flying over New York. Nothing like the sight of a big jet buzzing Ground Zero to make you feel safe and secure!
It's all part of Obama's stimulus package: think of all the money New Yorkers spent on kleenex and booze the other day!
Is Obama the President or a movie director? Over his next 100 days, he'll celebrate by blowing up the Goodyear blimp over New Jersey, then getting a giant monkey to climb the Empire State building. How's about a spaceship crashing into the Washington Monument? Just think what they could do at Pearl Harbor!
That Mayor of New York was really mad, but that's just cuz he heard the pilot was smoking.
What's really scary is how dumb this makes the people in charge look. And you want them running your health care? Will they try to cure your cancer by jumping out of your closet and yelling "Boo"?
The government gives fancy food and free Muslim bibles to the guys in Gitmo, but the people they tried to kill get to be scared, unpaid extras in Obama's personal action movie. Doesn't that qualify as torture?
I guess the Teleprompter Kid was jealous when ordinary folks decided to reenact the Boston Tea Party and didn't invite him.
I've got an idea for the next historical reenactment and photo op. He could make like Nixon and "resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow"!


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As every fan of "The Walking Dead" is well aware, this zombie-apocalypse drama will return for its much-awaited second season on Oct. 16. But AMC is announcing news that should bring delighted chills to any "Dead" devotee.
For starters, the season premiere will not be just an hour, but 90 creepy minutes.
The story resumes with the band of survivors fleeing zombie-overrun Atlanta and heading south for Fort Benning, Georgia, 125 miles (200 kilometers) away, where they hope to find refuge at the U.S. Army base. The group does not get far before meeting a new set of, um, challenges on a desolate stretch of four-lane.
In recent weeks, the show has been the subject of worrisome reports: a trimming of the budget and the abrupt departure of original show runner Frank Darabont. But judging from an advance look at this closely guarded premiere, "Dead" remains full of life.
The episode includes a big-time zombie encounter and a stomach-churning interlude. Then the final scene packs a wallop.
"How about those last two minutes? Pretty cool, eh?" says Charlie Collier, sounding more like one fan reliving it with a fellow geek than like the president of AMC, which he also is.
During a conversation this week in his mid-Manhattan office, Collier declines to get into the particulars of Darabont's exit, or to mention dollar figures connected with this 13-episode season's belt-tightening, but declares, "I would stack the budget up against probably any other in basic cable."
Last season's six episodes of "The Walking Dead" were created on a crash 10-month schedule to launch a long-sought-after series that could complement AMC's annual Fearfest marathon of horror films.
Now "Dead," which first appeared as a comic, has inspired its own companion piece, in the form of a new unscripted series aimed at comics "fanboys" of both genders. "Secret Stash" is a series from actor-filmmaker-comic-book-auteur Kevin Smith, who, perhaps best known for his indie classic "Clerks," also counts among his many ventures ownership of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book shop in Red Bank, New Jersey.
"Secret Stash" will be set at Smith's shop, whose vibe Collier likens to a comic-book geek's version of the neighborhood bar — an everybody-knows-your-name community of kindred spirits. There, the show promises to explore every nook and cranny of fanboy culture, with debates on arcane details of comic lore, the savoring of fanboy curios, and even an "Antiques Roadshow"-like valuation of items to be bought or sold.
These six one-hour episodes will air beginning in February, alongside the second half of the "Walking Dead" season, AMC announced to The Associated Press.
"I think AMC is at its best when it is super-serving a passionate fan," says Collier.
And there are rumors of yet another series to serve the "Dead" fan: a talk show to follow each episode and analyze its story developments. This "Dead" post-mortem (so to speak) was first reported by New York magazine's Vulture website. AMC is not commenting.
But the network has other unscripted fare to announce.
"JJK Security" is a series about a small, family-owned private security company in rural Georgia whose staff seems hijacked from a Southern gothic sitcom — only quirkier.
Collier calls this a real-life mashup of Christopher Guest mockumentaries with the aesthetic of the Coen Brothers by way of Robert Altman. "'JJK Security' is what you get when you take all that and put it in an unscripted form of storytelling," he says.
This eight-part series is scheduled to debut in late 2012.
Joining these shows is the previously announced "The Pitch," which, slated for next spring, will probe the advertising industry. Each episode will follow ad agencies as they create new campaigns.
Collier hastens to assure the AMC faithful that his network is not shifting its emphasis from the sort of scripted series that put it on the map, such as "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad." Instead, he speaks of "layering on" an unscripted show to supplement like-minded films and dramas in the lineup.
"This is the next step in our evolution from a movie network to a network with movies at its core," he says. "But our commitment to scripted (programming), and taking risks with it, is unwavering."
AMC will unveil its latest original drama series, "Hell on Wheels," on Nov. 6.
Set in 1865, the 10-episode "Hell" focuses on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), whose mission to pay back the Union soldiers who killed his wife carries him to the westward construction of the nation's first transcontinental railroad.
That epic building project is hailed by one character as a "mad, noble quest," which might apply to the series ambitious enough to depict it on the screen. With "Hell," there's mud, blood, sprawling landscapes, and conflict on a grand scale.
Says Collier, "We had been looking for two things since the day I walked in the door": the horror series that "The Walking Dead" became; and a Western to build on the network's game-changing "Broken Trail," an original Western miniseries that aired in June 2006 and delivered nearly 10 million viewers over its two-night airing.
Since Collier's arrival, he has stewarded the network's almost breathtaking transformation from an outlet for movies to a wellspring for TV's most daring and acclaimed original drama. (And highly honored, with 29 Emmy nominations this year alone.)
Collier is lanky and boyish-looking at 42, with a high-rev manner and a Tommy-gun laugh. He boasts an Ivy League graduate degree in business and a background in network advertising sales. Now he runs a growing network.
"But I'm a fan, first," he insists. And his office bears him out.
It's stocked with movie DVDs and cinema books, zombie heads and action figures, plus a mounted-and-framed ax that played a memorable role on "Breaking Bad." There also is also an expansive black-and-white art photo from a half-century ago that would strike a familiar chord in any "Mad Men" viewer: Glimpsed from behind, a suave executive is seated with his arm thrown nonchalantly on the back of his sofa, the inspiration for the signature "Mad Men" image of Don Draper captured in the same urbane pose.
The story of Draper, a circa-1960s New York ad man, "Mad Men" premiered in July 2007. "Breaking Bad," an ever-darker odyssey of a chemistry teacher who turns to cooking crystal meth, debuted the following January. Last summer, "Rubicon," a conspiracy thriller, won avid followers, just not enough of them, and was canceled after one season. But "The Walking Dead" arrived last Halloween to become the network's most popular series yet, with 6 million viewers for its season finale.
Then "The Killing" premiered in April with its bleakly penetrating probe into a Seattle teenager's murder and the shock waves such a crime sends through a community.
But when its finale aired in June without settling the much-hyped question "who killed Rosie Larsen?" fans howled: How dare AMC shortchange their allegiance by not clearly resolving the mystery by season's end, as promised? The fact is, "The Killing" executive producer Veena Sud had promised nothing of the sort, pointedly refusing to say whether the mystery would spill into Season 2. It didn't matter.
"Many were not thrilled with the conclusion," concedes Collier. "But we never meant to mislead anyone. We take our passionate fan base seriously."
Next season, he vows, "you will find out who killed Rosie Larsen. The conclusion to the murder and all that happens around it is going to be pretty special."
But the "Killing" backlash, along with viewer reaction to upheavals at "The Walking Dead," further crystallized a litany of complaints against a network that, until not long ago in the eyes of the audience and the media alike, could do no wrong.
A recent New York Times online story was headlined, "Could Things Break Any Worse for AMC?" And on Wednesday, the headline of a Vulture story asked: "After All Its Behind-the-Scenes Drama, What's Really Going On at AMC?"
As the Vulture article noted, "AMC's golden-child image has taken a beating in the press."
Even so, the noisy negotiations surrounding the future of "Breaking Bad" were settled recently with a commitment for 16 more episodes that should conclude its saga in style.
And after prolonged dickering, a deal was struck among "Mad Men" creator Matt Weiner, AMC and the show's studio, Lionsgate, that should satisfy viewers. The show, and Weiner, will return for two more seasons, with an option for a final third.
To dispel persistent theories that the lengthy contract dispute led to "Mad Men" being uprooted from its summer berth and postponed for months — a situation Weiner, not to mention "Mad Men" fans, decried — Collier says the move is part of an overall strategy to benefit all the network's series. The plan already has paid off for "Breaking Bad," which, shifted from spring to its current summer slot, has scored significantly boosted ratings.
"Mad Men" will return in early 2012, and Collier says similarly it should thrive there.
Collier cannot help but laugh, that lately his network is under the media microscope and taking loads of guff, a network that four years ago "couldn't get our phone calls returned, let alone have people talking about us."
But other things never change, he insists.
"We are so committed to everything that's gotten us here, including being the place where people bring their passion projects, and where we keep them, until the artist has told them to conclusion.
"We're above the timberline now. Things we're doing are getting noticed." Collier is smiling. "It's where we wanted to be."
EDITOR'S NOTE — Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier


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So what is the Gentleman Hacker or Lady Maker listening to nowadays in the way of podcasts? I don't know… but I can tell you what I've been hearing. Here's a round-up of some of my most recent podcast delights.
Hackerspace Digest
Recorded by the crew at Makers Local 256 in Huntsville, Alabama, the Hackerspace Digest is one of my favorites (and not just because they've mentioned Milwaukee Makerspace and myself a few times.) They typically talk about things happening at other hackerspaces as well as things they've been working on. Most of their focus seems to be US-based spaces, which is fine… we'll get all international later. They provide ogg files for people who love freedom, and mp3 files for people who love convenience. Check it out.. Hackerspace Digest is probably one of my favorite podcasts right now.
Hack All The Spaces
I was excited to hear about a podcast from the UK! Out of Nottinghack came the "Hack All The Spaces" podcast. The members of the London Hackspace tend to talk about UK hackspaces (yeah, they are called "hackspaces" over there instead of "hackerspaces") and ramble on about various hacking/making related topics. The audio quality still needs to improve, especially since they are no longer in the same physical location when they record. All podcasters: If you're not using The Levelator, you should be! I often have problems listening in the car due to the difference in audio levels. (Granted, my car is pretty noisy.)
The Hackables
As long as we're across the pond… a fairly new podcast called "The Hackables" put out two episodes (000 and 001) so far and the second (001) was better than the first (000) so that's good! They are a motley bunch, sort of like the Hackerspace Digest crew, but with British accents and a lot more laughing. (I love British accents, and if you're doing a UK podcast and you don't have a British accent, you should get one!)
The Amp Hour
Alright, let's head over to Australia and… Cleveland? The Amp Hour is two engineers talking about electronics (and other things) in a no-bull manner. I'll admit that Dave took a little bit to get used to, but he's pretty hilarious, and both he and Chris are smart guys. The Amp Hour gets a little too "electrical engineery" for me on occasion, but it's definitely informative and entertaining.
Robots Podcast
Welcome… to The World of Robotics! If you're into robotics, this is the podcast for you. It covers uh, the world of robotics… from researchers to commercial robotics companies, and the latest news and events. It's about robots, duh. (It's also a bit more professionally produced than a few of the others I've mentioned.)
Make: Talk
Our friends at Make have been talking to the makers who make the articles that show up in Make. Make: Talk is a fun series where Mark Frauenfelder interviews people about the cool stuff they do. So far they've all been pretty interesting to me but I think my favorite is still the one with Steve Hoefer. If you like Make you'll probably like Make: Talk.
The Engineering Commons
Chris Gammell from The Amp Hour wasn't satisfied doing just one podcast so he teamed up with Jeff Shelton to launch a new engineering podcast. As of right now they've only done two episodes, so it's early days, but it could be one to keep an eye on.
Engineer Vs. Designer
New to me (but they've done nearly 40 episodes) is a podcast with an engineer and a designer which they are surprisingly calling Engineer Vs. Designer. I've listened to two episodes, and I've got plenty more I want to dig into. EvD is a pretty polished podcast, which fits them well.
So that's my current list of "podcasts that I am listening to" right now. If I've missed any you think I should be listening to, or have any good recommendations, or just want to tell me what you are listening to… please do!


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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2012 January 7
Explanation: Galaxies are fascinating not only for what is visible, but for what is invisible. Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232, captured in detail by one of the new Very Large Telescopes, is a good example. The visible is dominated by millions of bright stars and dark dust, caught up in a gravitational swirl of spiral arms revolving about the center. Open clusters containing bright blue stars can be seen sprinkled along these spiral arms, while dark lanes of dense interstellar dust can be seen sprinkled between them. Less visible, but detectable, are billions of dim normal stars and vast tracts of interstellar gas, together wielding such high mass that they dominate the dynamics of the inner galaxy. Invisible are even greater amounts of matter in a form we don't yet know - pervasive dark matter needed to explain the motions of the visible in the outer galaxy.
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Watch Rose of Versailles Episode 40 English Subbed at shahid4u
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Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.


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1883: Vasudev Balwant Phadke dies on hunger strike
February 17th, 2019 Headsman
Vasudev Balwant Phadke died on hunger strike against his British captivity on this date in 1883.
The "father of armed rebellion" in India, Phadke radicalized while working as a clerk in Pune and arose as a prominent revolutionary in 1875 whipping up protests against the British for deposing the Maharaja of Baroda State and for the grinding agricultural crisis.
He took his sharp anti-colonial oratory on a then-novel barnstorming tour, and eventually formed the Ramosi Peasant Force — an armed peasant insurgency consisting of a few hundred souls.
Its successes were more of the local and symbolic variety — most notably, he got control of the city of Pune for a few days — but they sufficed to draw a price on Phadke's head which eventually found a seller. (Phadke had made contemptuous reply by issuing his own bounty on the Governor of Bombay, a purse that was not claimed.) Even after capture, he briefly escaped by tearing his cell door off his hinges.
Needing to defuse his power as a potential martyr, the British gave him a term of years rather than a death sentence, and they moved him to Aden, Yemen, to serve it. Phadke overruled the sentence and clinched his martyr's crown by refusing food until he succumbed on February 17, 1883.
There's an eponymous 2007 biopic celebrating this Indian national hero, clips of which can be found in the usual places.
On this day..
- 1819: Pierre Charles Rodolphe Foulard, Henry-Clement Sanson's first execution - 2020
- 1955: Three for the death of King Ananda of Thailand - 2018
- 1719: Richard Worley, pirate - 2017
- 1688: James Renwick, to end the Killing Time - 2016
- 1526: Guillaume Jobert, Genevieve-blasphemer - 2015
- 1815: Eight deserters by order of Andrew Jackson - 2014
- 1938: Juan Soldado, patron saint of Mexico-US migrants - 2013
- 1524: Not Jean de Poitiers, father of the mistress - 2012
- 1944: Jean Cavailles, philosopher-mathematician - 2011
- 1872: Gomburza - 2010
- 1600: Giordano Bruno, freethought martyr - 2009
- 2004: Cameron Willingham, for an accidental fire? - 2008
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Financial Planning Update
Ten Things About 10-Year U.S. Stock Market Performance
Published Thursday, July 26, 2018 at: 7:00 AM EDT
Although a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, out of respect for your time, here are 290 words about this chart of U.S. stock market performance over an amazing decade.
1. Over the 10-year period ended June 30, 2018, the S&P 500 total return index gained +163%, an average annual return of 16.3%, compared to the average annually since 1926 of 10%.
2. From the financial crisis bottom on March 9, 2009, the S&P 500 total return index through June 2018 gained +389% - an average return in those nine years of 43.2%.
3. In the nine-year bull run, stocks "corrected" - market-speak for a decline of 10% to 20% - four times, and each double-digit setback came in the last five years.
4. An investor with perfect timing predicted the March 9, 2009 low during the bottom of the 40% drop in prices in the bear market of 2008-9, which no one could, and then held for the next nine years, despite four corrections.
5. An investor with the worst possible timing, who put their retirement nest egg in stocks at market peak a decade ago, just before values plunged by 40%, in the decade, averaged a return of 16.3% annually.
6. The Great Recession decline of 40% was one of the worst bear markets in modern U.S. history.
7. Those within five years of retiring are at the greatest risk to bad timing and can be mitigated by strategically allocating assets, which is crucial to pre-retirees.
8. America's 500 largest publicly held companies more than fulfilled their role as the engine of growth in a broadly diversified retirement portfolio.
9. Understanding 10 years of stock market performance requires knowing statistics, but mostly depends on knowing the history of domestic and global financial assets, along with economic fundamentals driving growth.
10. No one can predict the end of a bear or bull market or the stock market's next big move.
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Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
You need to know this. The New Jersey State House passed a harsh anti-union bill yesterday – that shreds public employee benefits – cuts off cost-of-living increases for their pensions – and kills their collective bargaining rights. The bill includes the deepest cuts to public employee benefits in the state's history – and will affect more than 750,000 public workers like teachers, firefighters, and police officers. Despite thousands protesting outside the state capital – a'la Wisconsin – Republicans in the State House jammed through the bill and the Republican Senate is expected to pass it Monday – handing Republican Governor Chris Christie a huge victory in his war against unions. But the people of New Jersey are catching on to Governor Christie radical anti-middle class agenda – as recent polls shows his job approval plummeting. He joins other Republicans Governors around the country from Scott Walker in Wisconsin – to John Kasich in Ohio – to Rick Scott in Florida – whose poll numbers are falling through the floor. So even though these guys thought they could get away with dismantling the working class in their state – it's only a matter of time before they get a rude awakening from voters at the polls
With six weeks to go until our nation starts defaulting on its debts – Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked away from the negotiating table yesterday – signaling he doesn't want to be a part of any deal to raise the debt ceiling. Cantor – the second most powerful Republican in the House – said he quit because, "Democrats continue to insist that any deal must include tax increases." Republicans argue that spending cuts targeting working people are the only things that should be on the table when it comes to raising our debt ceiling and drafting a budget for 2012. That's despite the fact that both Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke – and the Congressional Budget Office – warn that deep cuts to working people would shrink our economy. So the Republican strategy is simple – they'll fight tooth and nail for their millionaire and billionaires buddies to get tax cuts – which will shrink our economy – while at the same time they're working to entirely crash our economy by forcing our nation to default on it's debt – which in turn will hurt President Obama at the polls in 2012. Remember this is the same Party that earlier this year nearly shut down the entire federal government to block money for poor women to get free breast cancer screening. The Republican Party is only motivated by politics – and doesn't give a damn about our nation's prosperity.
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Our ship of state is headed toward another financial crisis iceberg – and Republicans are at the helm. Yesterday the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee passed legislation that cuts funding for the critical government watchdogs in charge of making sure the financial crash of 2008 doesn't happen again. That includes cutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – and pledging to block anyone who President Obama nominates to run that agency. The bill also includes holding flat the funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission – even though that agency has a lot more responsibility under the Wall Street Reform bill. Banksters have spent millions on lobbying in the last few years to make sure that Wall Street reforms aren't put in place – and Republicans – like faithful lapdogs – are making sure the banksters get what they want. Get ready for another massive taxpayer bailout next year when the banks crash again.
More than 90 days in – and still no formal declaration of war from Congress – the Libyan War is growing more and more unpopular among the American people. A new Gallup poll shows a plurality of Americans – 46% – oppose military action in Libya. That's a reversal of poll numbers back in March that shows a plurality of Americans supporting the war. With our armies flung far and wide across the Arab world – the American people want to stop the perpetual war machine.
A 28-year-old New York woman was arrested for videotaping police officers while standing in her own front yard. Claiming she was concerned over what's going on in her neighborhood – Emily Good took out her video camera to tape a traffic stop in front of her house. After police told her to put the camera away because she seemed to them to be "very anti-police" – Good refused – and was promptly arrested. In the last few weeks we've witnessed more and more cases of the militarization of our police – from the shooting of a marine in Arizona in a botched SWAT raid – to the bloody assault against a wheelchair-bound newspaper salesman here in Washington, DC. And now – as this case illustrated – the police are doing everything they can to make sure their abuses aren't caught on camera anymore.
A new report by the organization Earth Open Source warns that our nation's top-selling weed killer – Roundup – is a serious threat to public health. For decades – industry regulators have ignored calls to reign in the use of Roundup that some studies have found may cause unusual embryonic cell growth – and heart defects. Currently – around 200 million pounds of Roundup is sprayed all across American every year – dousing many of the things we eat in poison – and Earth Open Source is calling on regulators to take action. Don't expect any quick action, though – many senior employees at USDA are waiting to retire into high-paid jobs in the chemical industry. This revolving door has to stop.
Crazy Alert! Paleontologist in South Africa hope to discover that one of the world's greatest writers – William Shakespeare – was also a big fan of marijuana. The Paleontologists have submitted a formal request to the Church of England to have Shakespeare's body unearthed so that tests can be run on it to determine if the bard occasionally got high. Back in 2001 – pipes were found buried in the garden of Shakespeare's home that contained traces of marijuana and cocaine – and Shakespeare did write in some of his poems about the "noted weed." Now we may know what the "Merchant of Venice" was ACTUALLY selling.
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