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Mike Huckabee
|Mike Huckabee
|Governor of Arkansas
From: July 15, 1996 – January 9, 2007
|Jim Guy Tucker
|Mike Beebe
|Former Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
From: November 20, 1993 – July 15, 1996
|Jim Guy Tucker
|Jim Guy Tucker
|Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
|Janet Huckabee (1974–present)
|Southern Baptist
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955, age 68) is a conservative American politician who served 11 years as governor of Arkansas (1996–2007) and was the runner-up to winner John McCain in the contest for the 2008 Republican nomination for president, attracting more support than Mitt Romney.[1] He is the leader against judicial supremacy and the infringement on constitutional rights caused by the homosexual agenda. He is pro-life and pro-Second Amendment. He announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in the 2016 election on May 5, 2015,[2] and has participated in the 2016 presidential debates. His daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as press secretary for former President Donald Trump beginning in July 2017.
Huckabee's position against judicial activism that pushes the homosexual agenda is principled and consistent. He has stated that as president he would not enforce the 5–4 U.S. Supreme Court decision on Obergefell, just as prior presidents including Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln did not enforce overreaching by the Supreme Court in other decisions.
Huckabee, after many years as a television personality and motivational speaker, combines conservative policy positions with a winsome friendly attitude that puts voters at ease. Throughout the presidential primary, Huckabee was viewed favorably by conservatives and Christian organizations such as the Home School Legal Defense Association. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich predicted that Huckabee would catch on with Republican primary voters, calling him "the most interesting dark horse."[3]
Critical to his move from obscurity to the top rank of political contenders was his evangelical base, his conservatism, his appeal to southerners and his likable personality.[4] After losing to McCain, Huckabee became a contributor on Fox News [5] and hosted his own show called Huckabee. After leaving the air, the show reappeared on Trinity Broadcasting Network in 2017. Huckabee is still a Fox News contributor and appears on many of the network's political programs.
- 1 Career
- 2 2008 Caucuses and Primaries
- 3 Record as Governor
- 4 Political Beliefs
- 5 Vertical Politics
- 6 Personal
- 7 Quotes
- 8 Endorsements
- 9 Criticism
- 10 References
- 11 External links
- 12 External Videos
- 13 Bibliography
Huckabee was born and raised in Hope, Arkansas, into a working-class family.[6] Huckabee in his early teens became a radio announcer and preacher. He attended nearby Ouachita Baptist University (BA 1975), and studied theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas (1976–80, no degree). He was a minister at Baptist churches in Pine Bluff and Texarkana, Arkansas in the 1980s, gaining fame for his preaching style and for his religious shows on television. He was elected in 1989 as president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention, with 490,000 members; he was elected as a moderate in opposition to the hardline conservatives.
Huckabee is the author of health books featuring his exercise and weight-loss exercise program, and bass guitar player for his rock band, Capitol Offense. He is married to Janet (née McCain); they have three children, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
2008 Caucuses and Primaries
For a more detailed treatment, see Mike Huckabee 2008 Presidential Campaign.
Almost unknown in mid-2007, he climbed the polls steadily and won the closely watched Iowa caucus on Jan. 3, 2008. His base of support comprised "born again" evangelical Christians, who comprise 35% of the GOP voters.[7]
Huckabee's campaign started to take off in summer 2007 after the high-profile Ames Straw Poll, where he came in 2nd place (18%) to Gov. Romney's 32%, ahead of Sen. Brownback's 15%. He won second place despite far less name recognition and far less spending - he spent about $35 per vote, whereas Romney spent more than $500 per vote. His victory placed him in the top tier of Republican primary candidates.[8][9][10] His second surge began after the Republican YouTube debate, where he was seen as calm, reasonable and positive next to the other candidates, many of whom attacked each other.
He was the winner of the straw poll after the Sept. 17th "valuesdebate".[11] In October 2007, Huckabee overwhelmingly won the high-profile Family Research Counsel's Value Voter Summit straw poll. Out of those attending, Huckabee received more votes then all other candidates combined.[12]
Poll numbers show that Huckabee's strong debate performances, communication skills and likability had him steadily moving up in key primary states. He was victorious in the Republican Caucuses at the Iowa Caucuses,[13] and came in third place in the New Hampshire Primary, where he personally expected to not even place in the top three.[14]
Huckabee perfected the shoestring operation. He raised only $2.3 million by October 2007, less than 5% of the money of each main rival. He never had enough money to send advance teams to organize events or drum up crowds, nor could he afford fund-raising operations, private polls, big-name political consultants, or a staff of policy advisers and media experts. He relied on volunteers from churches and the home-school movement to schedule his events. The retail politics of the first states did not cost much. He won in Iowa by relying on his quick wit, fluent oratory, and in lieu of commercials, as many TV and radio talk-show appearances as he could schedule. To draw crowds his rallies featured Hollywood star Chuck Norris and his own playing the bass guitar with local rock bands. As the election calendar turned to larger states he lacked the cash to compete, so in late Jan. 2008 he cut back on Florida operations to concentrate on a few smaller, overlooked southern states on Feb. 5.[15]
He came in third in the Michigan primaries and a close second to McCain in South Carolina. He came fourth in the Florida Primary, losing to McCain, Romney, and Giuliani. Although he lost ground after a consistent string of defeats, he continued on to Super Tuesday. He succeeded in Alabama, Arkansas (his home state), Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia. His success helped cause Mitt Romney to withdraw from the race. Despite McCain's unbeatable lead in delegates, Huckabee continued on trying to cause a split convention. He won the primaries in Kansas and Louisiana. But he lost all the primaries on Super Tuesday II and McCain succeeded in gaining the 1,191 delegates needed to win. Huckabee withdrew and endorsed Senator McCain.
He spoke at the Republican National Convention in favor of the McCain/Palin ticket, along with his former rivals, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Sam Brownback.
Record as Governor
As governor of Arkansas, Huckabee both cut and raised taxes. For example, during his ten years in office, the Arkansas legislature enacted increases in tobacco, sales, and fuels taxes; however he also signed into legislation tax cuts over 90 times during that period. During his tenure as Governor welfare rolls declined by nearly half, and last year the state's economy grew 4.4%, beating the national average of 4.2%.[16]
In 1997 he introduced ARKids First, a health care plan which cut the number of Arkansas uninsured children in half.[17]
Throughout his tenure he also supported and helped pass pro-life bills through the Democrat controlled legislature.
In 2005 Time Magazine declared him one of "America's 5 Best Governors".[18]
In his gubernatorial elections, Huckabee had strong support by minorities, and he reaches out to minority voters in the Republican primary for president more than most other candidates.[19]
Political Beliefs
As governor, he signed the first broad-based tax-cut in state history and cut taxes over ninety times. Huckabee believes that the United States should enact a tax system known as the FairTax, this system replaces the income tax with a voluntary consumption tax. Recently he signed the Presidential Taxpayer Protection Pledge to Americans for Tax Reform which promises to not raise taxes if elected president.[20]
During his tenure, state spending rose 65.3% between 1996 and 2004, which was 3 times the rate of inflation. This has led to strong criticism from conservative groups like the Club for Growth. However, when he left office there was a surplus of over $800 million.[21] Huckabee has called on Bush to veto more spending bills by the democrat controlled congress.[22] In August 2007, Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, stated "Gov. Huckabee recognizes that the challenge is to rein in spending and reduce taxes."[23]
According to National Review, as Governor of Arkansas, Huckabee signed a bill requiring parental consent for abortion, and mandating notification by abortion providers to prospective parents that the unborn baby may feel pain, he also helped pass a bill through the Democratic-controlled legislature which stated that life began at conception.[24][25] He also signed the Fetal Protection Act. He is known to be strongly pro-life.
He would favor Roe v. Wade being overturned and the federal governments recognition that life begins at conception.
Huckabee is opposed to same-sex "marriage" and civil unions. He also is a strong advocate for fathers' participation in child-raising.[26]
Second Amendment Rights
As governor, he signed bills blocking frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and removing restrictions on concealed handgun permit holders. He became the first governor in the nation to have a concealed handgun license.[27]
Huckabee opposed the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill because he stated it had problems with "credibility; secrecy; and spending".[28] He believes the United States should seal the border first and deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes.[29]
Vertical Politics
While campaigning, Huckabee has referred to what he calls Vertical Politics - politics aimed at making America stronger rather than festering partisanship. Huckabee said, "Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'." [30]
Huckabee was born in Hope, Arkansas, the same town where former president Bill Clinton was born. This coincidence led to one of Huckabee's campaign slogans, "give Hope one more chance." Huckabee lost 110 pounds while governor of Arkansas and documented his weight loss and set out a 12-step plan for weight loss in his book Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork.[31] He has also made childhood obesity a major platform issue. He became the first person in his family to attend college when he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Fort Worth, Texas; he graduated in only two and a half years.
Now living in Florida, the 52-year-old former governor and his wife lived for years in Little Rock and have three grown children. His youngest child, and only daughter, is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House Press Secretary under President Donald Trump and candidate for Arkansas Governor (if successful it would make her the first child of a former Governor to serve in that position). Huckabee enjoys playing in his rock-n-roll band, Capitol Offense, which has played at the House of Blues in New Orleans, the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver, and for two presidential inauguration balls.
- "We've had a congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop."[32]
- "…my faith is my life. It defines me. I see no separation between my faith from my personal and professional lives."[33]
- "When it comes to the red tape in government, I don't think I can part the Red Sea but I believe I can part the red tape."[34]
- "[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards."[35]
- "To think that we're going to go lock up 12 million people, or even round them up and drive them to the border and let them go, might make a great political speech, but it's not going to happen." Washington Post, May, 2006.
- "(I) propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country." Secure America Plan", December, 2007.
- "I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles and I still believe in them." (In response to questions about his continuing campaign even after the liberal news media dismissed his primary campaign as a failure.)[36]
For the first time in the organizations history, the Home School Legal Defense Association Political Action Committee endorsed a political candidate. The organization, which consists of 90,000 members, stated that they decided to endorse Huckabee because of he was, "conservative, a friend of homeschooling, a man of character, and a man with a mature faith in Jesus Christ".[37]
South Carolina
Huckabee has received some key endorsement during the course of his primary race. One such endorsement came from former South Carolina Governor, David Beasley, who had before planned on staying on the sidelines throughout the Republican primary.[38]
Huckabee received another South Carolina endorsement from Iris Campbell, the former South Carolina First Lady and wife of former governor, the late Mike Campbell.[39] During Mike Campbell's time in office, from 1987 to 1994, his endorsement of Ronald Reagan boosted the underdog's presidential primary race.
In August 2007, Huckabee received a key endorsement from Virginia's House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell. Howell has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the nation's largest bipartisan, individual membership association of state legislators.[40]
New Hampshire
Huckabee picked up some key endorsements in the very significant primary in New Hampshire. In August 2007, New Hampshire's former Senator, Russell Prescott, and former Executive Councilor David Wheeler endorsed Huckabee.[41] Both figures remain very popular with social conservatives in the state.[42]
He came under attack as a "tax-and-spend liberal," especially by his unsuccessful rival Fred Thompson,[43] whose candidacy ended up helping John McCain. Huckabee's funding base was meager, with his family providing much of his organizational support.
Some have criticized grants of clemency by Huckabee while he was governor, although the media have distorted the record. Huckabee never released from jail Maurice Clemmons, who was unanimously released by the Arkansas parole board and nearly a decade later (and multiple imprisonments and releases) murdered four police officers in Seattle in November 2009. Huckabee faced criticism during the 2008 primaries for granting a pardon to convicted rapist Wayne DuMond. Like Clemmons, DuMond returned to a life of crime, earning a second conviction before dying in prison in 2005.[44]
- ↑ Huckabee bows out 5 March 2008 Arkansas Online
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/05/huckabee-announces-2016-white-house-bid/
- ↑ http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6899608
- ↑ Dan Balz, "Huckabee's Rise and Rise," Washington Post Dec. 10, 2007; Michael D. Shear and Juliet Eilperin, "Suddenly, Huckabee Is in Romney's Rearview Mirror," Washington Post Nov. 25, 2007; "Shields and Brooks Mull Iowa Election Push, Baseball Scandal" PBS, Dec. 14, 2007
- ↑ http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/12/huckabee-joins-fox-as-contributor/ Huckabee joins Fox as Contributor
- ↑ He did not overlap in Hope with Bill Clinton (1946- ) who was also born in Hope; Clinton left as a small child.
- ↑ . Evangelicals comprise 48%-68% of Republicans in the South and border states, 47% in Iowa, and only 11% in New Hampshire. Andrew Kohut, "The G.O.P.'s Unanswered Question," New York Times Jan. 11, 2008
- ↑ https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/12/ftn/main3159786.shtml
- ↑ http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22081
- ↑ http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/
- ↑ http://www.earnedmedia.org/kg0918.htm
- ↑ http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/romney_camp_stacking_the_value.html
- ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/21/s.c.straw.poll/index.html
- ↑ http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/08/hillary-clinton-john-mccain-take-early-lead-in-new-hampshire-primary/
- ↑ David D. Kirkpatrick, "Huckabee's Money Woes Curtail Campaign," New York Times Jan. 22. 2008
- ↑ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1129494,00.html
- ↑ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1129494,00.html
- ↑ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1129494,00.html
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-huckabee-looking-for-a-niche-woos-blacks-in-gop-primaries/2015/07/27/cf6fc468-3081-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html
- ↑ http://www.atr.org/content/html/2007/march/030207pr-huckabeesignspledge.html
- ↑ http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/01/a_report_on_mike_huckabees_fis.php
- ↑ http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/2007/09/08/huckabee_0909.html
- ↑ http://www.atr.org/content/html/2007/march/030207pr-huckabeesignspledge.html
- ↑ http://www.explorehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_ID=11
- ↑ http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmNjMmI1ODhjNGVlZWFmNTlmMGNiZTVjYTg1NTUzMTk=
- ↑ http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm
- ↑ http://www.explorehuckabee.com
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee
- ↑ http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=4
- ↑ http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=verticalday.home
- ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7752179/site/newsweek/
- ↑ GOP presidential debate May 2006 The Loft Accessed 3 January 2008.
- ↑ Faith and Politics mikehuckabee.com Accessed 3 January 2008.
- ↑ GOP presidential debate Iowa, 12 December 2007.
- ↑ http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/15/579265.aspx
- ↑ Mike Huckabee's campaign rolls on February 2008
- ↑ http://huckabee08.blogspot.com/2007/06/huckabee-on-roll-endorsements-and-polls.html
- ↑ http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/27/news_pf/Opinion/Huckabee_s__a_maratho.shtml
- ↑ http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/02/endorsement_wat.html
- ↑ http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressRelease&ID=216
- ↑ http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/08/huckabee_endors.html
- ↑ http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/08/huckabee_endors.html
- ↑ See criticism reported by Jennifer Rubin, "Romney and Huckabee: Club for Growth Comparisons," from Human Events Aug. 24, 2007
- ↑ In 1992, conservatives lambasted Democratic presidential nominee Mike Dukakis for his actions as governor in allowing Willie Horton to go free. See Andy Barr, "Conservatives hammer Mike Huckabee over shooting," Politico Nov. 30, 2009
External links
- Mike Huckabee (official)
- Huckabee Campaign Blog
- Grassroots Website
- Win, The case for Mike Huckabee., National Review, S. T. Karnick, August 2007
- There's a Huckabee Born Every Minute, Ann Coulter, Human Events, 12/19/2007
- Mike Huckabee 2016 campaign website
External Videos
Supporter Videos
Personal Story
- FRC's Value Voter Summit Speech Part 1
- Value Voter Summit Speech Part 2
- FRC's Value Voter Summit Speech Part 3
- Barone, Michael, and Richard E, Cohen. Almanac of American Politics: 2006 (2005)


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Mises on the worship of the state or statolatry (1944)
Found in Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
At the height of WW2 when states on both sides of the conflict had massively increased government intervention in the economy, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) warned against "worship of the state", or statolatry as he also called it, seeing in it the cause of "the worst evils which mankind ever had to endure":
It has been necessary to dwell upon these truisms because the mythologies and metaphysics of etatism have succeeded in wrapping them in mystery. The state is a human institution, not a superhuman being. He who says "state" means coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: The police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
A theme in Mises' writings is his critique of "the worship of the state", which he also called "etatism" or "statolatry." By this he meant the belief that the rulers of the state and their bureaucrats were more knowledgeable than others, less prone than ordinary people to allow their personal interests to overshadow their civi duty, accountable to a higher moral order, justified in using force against others to achieve the goals of "society", and so on. Hence, they should be treated as godlike in their powers and virtue. One can trace his use of the words from the Theory of Money and Credit (1912) and Socialism (1922) at the time of WW1, where "etatism" was the preferred term, to WW2 and its immediate aftermath when he introduced the word "statolatry" in Omnipotent Government (1944), Bureaucracy (1944), and Human Action (1949) as a harsher way of saying the same thing. The key point for Mises is the distinction between the State's way of carrying out its affairs, and the the way things are done in the free market. The former "means coercion and compulsion", the latter means cooperation and peaceful exchange. In the modern era, Mises points out, the presence of democratic governments does not alter the fundamental equation as "majorities are no less exposed to error and frustration than kings and dictators." He concludes that we must not forget that, like monarchs who ruled by divine right, "The individuals who form the majority are not gods, and their joint conclusions are not necessarily godlike."

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Project Draco is basically Panzer Dragoon for the Xbox 360's Kinect. It's even made by the same guy. First revealed at this year's Tokyo Game Show, though, it's only today we get our first proper look at the game.
The 3 Best And 3 Worst Korok Challenges In Tears Of The Kingdom
These two screenshots, courtesy of Japanase game site Famitsu, show that, yeah. You ride dragons!
Project Draco is the creation of Yukio Futatsugi, the man who invented classic Sega on-rails shooter Panzer Dragoon. It's a very similar game for Kinect that, in addition to having you fight other dragons and guys mad enough to ride on dragons, also lets the player "nurture and learn to communicate" with your flying buddy.


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AT&T Hopes for Single Smartphone OS (PC World) — AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the next few years, a company executive said Thursday.
Discussion: eWeek, Ars Technica, InformationWeek, Local Mobile Search, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, AppScout, FierceWireless, Phone Scoop, Engadget and TeleRead
David Chartier / Ars Technica: AT&T pines for a standardized smartphone OS, eyes Symbian
Greg Sterling / Local Mobile Search: AT&T: Smartphones Will Dominate by 2014
John Herrman / Gizmodo: AT&T Eventually Wants All Its Smartphones Running the Same OS
Brian Heater / AppScout: AT&T Wants Single, Unified Smartphone OS
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: AT&T looking to consolidate smartphone platforms
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop: AT&T Is Pitching a Single Smartphone Platform
Paul Biba / TeleRead: AT&T wants to standardize on its smartphone OS
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Netflix fixes streaming-video glitch — Netflix, the Web's top video rental store, has corrected a glitch that has plagued some customers of the company's streaming-video service for several weeks, the company said Friday. — Owners of Roku's Netflix Player and Microsoft's Xbox 360 began complaining …
Discussion: The Official Netflix Blog and Engadget HD
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Some Xbox owners see poor-quality Netflix streams
Some Xbox owners see poor-quality Netflix streams
Discussion: DailyTech, NewTeeVee, Maximum PC all and Destructoid
Shane McGlaun / DailyTech: Xbox, Roku Owners Seeing Netflix Stream Issues
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: Vid-Biz: Flickr, Netflix, "Vidding"
Paul Lilly / Maximum PC all: Poor Quality Video Streams has Netflix Stumped, Xbox 360 Owners Frustrated
Acer branded smartphones to hit the market in 1Q09, company clarifies — Yen Ting Chen, Taipei; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Friday 5 December 2008] — Despite a bleak economic outlook, Acer remains optimistic about its growth opportunities for 2009. The company expects its notebook shipments …
Discussion: SlashGear, Boy Genius Report, The Toybox and TechSpot
Chris Davies / SlashGear: Acer smartphone coming Q1 2009
Andrew Nusca / The Toybox: Acer smartphones coming in 2009
Justin Mann / TechSpot: Acer preparing E-Ten smartphone for early 2009
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Industry Moves: NYT Promotes Denise Warren as GM of NYTimes.com — The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has appointed Denise Warren, SVP and chief advertising officer of the company, as the GM of NYTimes.com, adding to her current duties. She fills the position left vacant by Vivian Schiller, who joined NPR on Dec 1 as the new CEO.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Jobwire
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider: Meet The New NYTimes.com Boss
Doug Coleman / Jobwire: NYTimes.com Hires GM
RGS / Random Good Stuff:
DIY iPhone Airplane Holder — I saw this on an other blog couple of days ago and asked the fellow blogger if I could republish the images on RGS. — A big thank you to Hodenmumps who made this post possible. — Who doesn't like free stuff for your gadgets.
Dan Moren / PC World: Air-sickness Bag Makes a Great IPhone Stand
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: iPhone barf bag mod is air sick
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: iPhone Barf Bag Mod is Perfect for Airsick MacGyver
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hate Vista? Dell Now Charging $150 Extra for Windows XP (MSFT) — We know that many consumers just don't like Windows Vista. But just how much more will people pay for a copy of the now nominally off-the-market Windows XP? — More and more. In June, Dell (DELL) …
Discussion: Technologizer and Electronista
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Qitera: Social Bookmarking for the Deep Web — Earlier this year, we featured a stealth startup called Qitera, which just launched publically today. At its core, Qitera is a social bookmarking service, but unlike most of its competitors, Qitera can not only save a screenshot of the site …
Jennifer Kingson / Bits:
A Credit Card Loses Its High-Tech Cred — Back when it was introduced in 1999, the Blue card from American Express was marketed as the first credit card specifically meant to be used on the Internet. It came with a microprocessor chip embedded in the plastic, as well as a smart-card reader …
Katie Hoffmann / Bloomberg:
Cisco, Dell Sales at Risk as Slump Fuels Gray Market — A A A — Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — The remnants of businesses crushed by the economic slump now sit in Liquid Technology Inc.'s warehouse by the Hudson River in New York's Chelsea district. — Hundreds of servers, personal computers and routers …
Discussion: Between the Lines and Silicon Alley Insider
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Motorola: It's Junk, Says S&P — Standard & Poor's today cut its long-term corporate credit rating on Motorola (MOT) by two notches to BB+, from BBB, down to junk bond territory. — In cutting its rating, S&P cited the troubles in the company's mobile device unit, which it expects to extend for some time …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kerry E. Grace / Wall Street Journal: S&P Cuts Motorola Rating to Junk
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Amazon's Team of Rivals — Not so long ago, much of my life this time of year was spent following the toy wars. From 1999 to 2001, Amazon.com, eToys and Toys 'R' Us battled for dominance in the online toy market. (Ultimately, Toys 'R' Us joined forces with Amazon, and eToys failed and changed hands several times.)
Discussion: TechFlash and Silicon Alley Insider
John Cook / TechFlash: iFloor files for bankruptcy
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SaveThePlanetAndWin: Another Social Network Hoping To Make The World A Little Greener — Save The Planet And Win, a new green social network looking to help users cut back on their carbon deficits, launches today to the public. — Beyond traditional social network features like user messaging …
Discussion: Mashable! and Download Squad
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!: Save the Planet, Win Prizes: Good Idea or Marketing Gimmick?
Christina Warren / Download Squad: Save the Planet and Win: Environmental social network
Python 3.0 upgrade incompatible with earlier versions — Python 3.0, a new version of the language released earlier this week, has incompatibilities with the 2.x line, according to the Python Software Foundation. — While saying the language is mostly the same, the foundation said details …
Discussion: eWeek and The Register
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: Is Python 3.0 the Holy Grail?
Austin Modine / The Register: Python 3.0 appears, strangles 2.x compatibility


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The ability to boot to the desktop is a fairly obvious request, I know. And given that Microsoft is clearly pushing towards a future in which the desktop is eventually phased out, you may believe that this particular change can be safely ignored. I couldn't disagree more.
Yes, Windows 8 represents an amazing transition from PCs to devices, but Windows 8 is designed for PCs and devices. And unless something unexpected happens, most Windows 8 installs will occur on traditional (non-touch) PCs or on traditional PC form factors that also happen to have touch screens. As such, most Windows 8 users will in fact spend most of their time—in some cases, virtually all of their time—in the desktop environment. Why punish your own customers, Microsoft?
Now, I'm not calling for the return of the Start button or the classic Start menu. Far from it: The new Start screen may not be ideal on the traditional PC form factors that everyone actually uses, but it's at least consistent and it does work. And those who do use the desktop exclusively or nearly so are certainly well served by tasking app pinning.
But I think Windows 8 users deserve more than a cheap Registry key hack. I think Windows 8, modern and intelligent OS that it is, should do the work. And when you first boot into Windows 8, and the Start screen appears, you should see something like the following:
If this were a touch-screen device—not a traditional PC—this message could be changed to note that, or it could simply not appear, since users of such devices will probably want the Metro interfaces by default.
You should also be able to choose between the Start screen and the desktop in PC Settings at any time.
It's just customer-centric common sense.


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For the last five years, chef Gordon Ramsay has appeared weekly on the reality-TV show Hell's Kitchen. He curses, he yells, and spit flies forth from his mouth as he frequently reduces hopefuls to tears.
So perhaps it was understandable that some lashed out at the chef after a restaurant owner on his show Kitchen Nightmares killed himself, three years after the suicide of another Ramsay contestant.
In a particularly nasty irony, Ramsay berated chef Joseph Cerniglia on the show, telling the man that his poorly run New Jersey restaurant was "about to swim down the Hudson."
That's just where Cerniglia was found floating last Friday.
As it happens, Ramsay's on-camera rants don't seem to have played a role in the man's suicide— Cerniglia's sister says he left the show loving Ramsay for the advice he gave him—but they still haven't gone over well with members of the food establishment, whose exasperation with shows like Hell's Kitchen is beginning to boil over.
Says Drew Nieporent, the restaurateur behind Nobu and the Tribeca Grill: "I have enormous respect for Gordon. I know him personally and I admire his career, but I watch those shows and I scratch my head, because that type of behavior went out years ago. It's almost as passé as haute cuisine of the '80s. I don't condone that behavior in the restaurants I own and it doesn't pass muster with me."
That opinion is seconded by Eric Ripert, the maestro of Le Bernardin. "I've seen Gordon twice in my life and each time he was a gentleman," Ripert says. "But I don't understand the dynamic of the show. I don't like that the shows he's on are promoting abuse. That's what it is, it's verbal abuse."
He continues: "I come from a place where humiliation was part of the training and it did not make me a better cook. I have been an abusive chef myself and I had poor results. It made me unhappy, so we changed how we manage the kitchen at Le Bernardin and I think we've had good results. We have our bad days, one of us snaps, but then we are sorry and we make sure that it won't happen again. I just think the show is wrong. We can find a way to be entertaining and funny without resorting to behavior like that."
What also sparks the ire of foodies is that Ramsay's shows are filled with people with questionable skills and competence. "What I don't like about Hell's Kitchen is the quality of the contestants," says Anthony Bourdain, host of No Reservations. "I don't think anyone I've seen on the show could ever credibly be expected to handle the prize, which is to be the chef of a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. It's ridiculous. Whatever you say about Gordon, he runs pretty good restaurants. He may not be a groundbreaking genius, but the places are quality restaurants, and these people are transparently incapable of working at that level. None of them would last two episodes on Top Chef."
As Bourdain sees it, Ramsay's producers are being manipulative, picking chefs they know will perform at a subpar level, merely to heighten the drama on the show. He even says Ramsay's TV shtick appears to be at odds with what he knows about the man from real life: "I think Gordon's playing that part for your entertainment. He's playing a character based on somebody he was 15 years ago."
Back then, Ramsay was an up-and-coming player in the food world, a working class Scot whose father drank too much and abused him. He played soccer competitively as a child and likely would have gone pro had a series of injuries not taken him out of the game. Still, Ramsay's time on the field gave him stamina that likely came in handy when he went to work for a series of top chefs with top attitudes—chief among them Marco Pierre White of Harvey's, who was as famous for cutting down his staffers as he was for slicing a chicken.
By his early thirties, Ramsay had a burgeoning empire of his own and a series of Michelin stars to show for it. He'd also earned a reputation as being a major hothead, thanks to a documentary, Boiling Point, that chronicled his effort to open his flagship restaurant in London.
No matter. As reality television came into fashion, Ramsay was perfectly positioned for stardom, a kind of British food-world equivalent to Donald Trump. In 2004, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares made its debut on Channel 4 in Britain and earned big ratings. Then came Hell's Kitchen, which did well too and was soon being developed for American television by Fox.
Joan Buck, the television critic for Vogue, was one of many who considered it to be exhilarating television. She likens Hell's Kitchen to a "Shakespearean tragedy on crystal meth," saying, "In a way he was the first reality show that wasn't stuck on a desert island. The way he pumps up the fire and metal makes it all terribly exciting. On the other hand, Hell's Kitchen also makes you not want to eat out at a restaurant."
She may be on to something there.
Though Ramsay has been on a steady climb where TV is concerned—he reportedly earns $250,000 an episode of Hell's Kitchen and several million a year with other small-screen endeavors—his restaurant empire has been struggling. In 2009, according to Bloomberg News, Ramsay had about 20 restaurants, in Dubai, New York, Paris, Prague, and Tokyo, among others. But unlike most celebrity chefs, who sign "consulting deals" with investors who shoulder the cost of building and operating the restaurant (essentially, a licensing agreement), Ramsay owned most of his business outright with a holding company controlled by his father-in-law, Chris Hutchinson. So when the global recession took hold and several of the restaurants earned a reputation for being serviceable but uninspired, Ramsay was stuck footing the bill.
"I don't understand the dynamic of the show," says chef Eric Ripert. "I don't like that the shows he's on are promoting abuse. That's what it is, it's verbal abuse."
According to a business associate with ties to Ramsay, the chef restructured many of those deals in the last year to help alleviate the problem, but others wonder whether the TV shitck is part of the problem.
For two years in a row, none of Ramsay's restaurants have made the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best restaurants list. "It's not a perfect system," one restaurant world observer says of the contest, "but it's an important list that's voted on by restaurateurs and critics. It doesn't mean his restaurants got terrible, but it is an accurate portrayal of how his reputation has changed among a specific group of opinion-makers, and it shows that there's a price to his TV persona. His peers don't take him as seriously as they once did."
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INDIANAPOLIS – Super Bowl spots are still the hottest ticket in advertising.
NBC has sold all the commercial airtime for the Feb. 5 game in Indianapolis and even has a waiting list of advertisers. The average cost for a 30-second spot this year was $3.5 million, with some time slots costing as much as $4 million.
Seth Winter, senior vice president of NBC Sports group sales and marketing, said in a recent interview that the last time slot was sold just after Thanksgiving. A year ago, Fox Sports said it sold the last of its advertising spots before the end of October.
Slots are still available during NBC's pregame show, and those on the waiting list for the Super Bowl will have an opportunity to advertise if other companies give up their slot.
"There are the usual companies that have supported it in the past," Winter said. "Automotive will be very healthy. Beverages will be very healthy. The movie and snack category continue to be healthy. There will be a few new players and some who have been there, who won't be there."
Winter declined to identify which companies bought ads or dropped out, fearing it could tip off competitors. Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola and Godaddy.com are among the recent regulars.
The biggest change this year, Winter said, is that advertisers are booking longer spots to showcase their creativity.
"Some of the things I've seen are astonishing," Winter said. "I think you'll see a lot of ads that are humorous and action-filled, with a range of different types of executions. We haven't seen everything yet; we don't see everything until almost the week of (the game)."
The ads must comply with network and NFL standards.
Sports fans also might see the ads more regularly, thanks to NBC's merger with Comcast. NBC officials have used the Super Bowl to sell advertisers on its expanding family of networks, including NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus) and The Golf Channel.


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Twenty-five thousand cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in 38 states and the District of Columbia annually during 1998-2003, according to studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report, "Assessing the Burden of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-Associated Cancers in the United States (ABHACUS)," was published online and appears in the Nov. 15, 2008, supplement edition of Cancer.
"These estimates of HPV-associated cancers were collected prior to the development of the HPV vaccine. This gives us baseline data to measure the impact of HPV vaccine and cervical cancer screening programs in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers and precancers," said Mona Saraiya, MD, MPH, medical officer in the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control and coordinator of the studies.
This first analysis of the largest, most comprehensive assessment of HPV-associated cancer data to date in the United States used cancer registry data from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.
The top HPV-associated cancer sites were cervix, oral cavity and oropharynx, anus, vulva, penis, and vagina. HPV is the name of a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different types. More than 30 of these HPV types can be sexually transmitted. Most people with HPV infection do not develop symptoms or health problems. Some HPV types can cause cervical cancer and other less common cancers, such as cancer of the vulva, vagina, anus, and penis. Other HPV types can cause genital warts.
Significant findings include:
Age-adjusted rates are presented in parentheses where appropriate and are per 100,000 persons.
-- Cervix: More HPV-associated cancers occur in the cervix than any other site - about 10,800 per year. The incidence rate of cervical cancer was 8.9 women during 1998-2003. Black and Hispanic women had higher rates of cervical cancer (12.6 and 14.2, respectively) than white and non-Hispanic women (both 8.4).
-- Oral cavity and oropharynx: Cancers in some areas of the head and neck (oral cavity and oropharynx) are more likely to be HPV-associated than other areas. There were nearly 7,400 potentially HPV-associated cancers of the oral cavity and oropharynx per year - nearly 5,700 among men and about 1,700 among women. Incidence rates for a subset of the HPV-associated cancers of the oral cavity and oropharynx (cancers of the tonsil and cancers of the base of the tongue) were higher in men than women. These cancers significantly increased (3.0 percent) per year during the reporting period.
-- Anal: There were more than 3,000 HPV-associated anal cancers per year -- about 1,900 in women and 1,100 in men. HPV-associated anal cancer occurs more frequently among women (1.5) compared to men (1.0). Whites had the highest rates among women (1.6), while blacks had the highest rates among men (1.2).
-- Vulvar: There were about 2,300 new cases of vulvar cancer each year during the study period. In contrast to cervical cancer, white women (1.8) had higher rates of vulvar cancer than black (1.3) and Asian/Pacific Islander (0.4) women.
-- Penile: Penile cancer is relatively rare, striking about 800 men each year. Incidence rates were higher among Hispanic men (1.3) than non-Hispanic men (0.8).
-- Vaginal: About 600 women a year developed vaginal cancers. Incidence rates were higher among black women than white women (0.7 and 0.4, respectively), and incidence rates were lowest among Asian/Pacific Islander women (0.3).
* Women with a history of cervical cancer have an increased risk of developing subsequent in situ (non-invasive) cancers of the vagina and vulva, as well as invasive cancers of the vagina, vulva, and rectum.
The Cancer supplement chapters also focus on disparities of HPV-associated cancers, how CDC and state and local programs address such disparities, background of the HPV vaccine, the economic impact of HPV-associated cancer mortality, the burden of cervical cancers in specific states with a high burden of disease, and surveillance of behavioral risk factors related to these cancers. These studies were conducted by scientists at CDC and several researchers at other organizations including the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, state cancer registry staff, and academic institutions.
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Obviously it's not real drug paraphernalia — it's fake — but at a midnight launch for Grand Theft Auto V, one store set up pretend lines of cocaine on an in-store sales desk.
Considering the reputation of video games, and the reputation of Grand Theft Auto in general, this seems like a completely idiotic move. Sure, it's a little bit of fun, but why take such a stupendous risk? You could make the argument that Grand Theft Auto V is an R18+ rated game (Australia's AO rating), but we're talking about parodying the consumption of illegal drugs here, in a branch of the largest specialist retailer in Australia.
Obviously people were going to talk about this stunt, obviously someone was going to take a picture and obviously that picture would make its way to the internet. A source has informed us that this was an isolated incident by one rogue store and that EB's head office knew nothing about it, but this seems like extremely poor decision making by whoever was running the store in question.
I've been informed that EB Games will be sending Kotaku a statement regarding the situation later today.
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Give credit to the New York based United Methodist Women. Most religious lobby groups currently pushing for "immigration reform" at least pay lip service to border security and law enforcement. But the UMW is bracingly, audaciously refreshingly, demanding completely open borders with no immigration law enforcement. Come one, come all, just like to a church pot luck supper!
UMW once was the largest women's organization in America, with over 1 million members. Today it is likely the fastest declining women's organization, with just over half a million, and plunging. Few church women under age 60 or even 70 are still members, and most of them are mercifully unaware of the radical politics long touted by the UMW's New York activist bureaucrats. But thanks to the bequests of countless Methodist women now in glory, and the earnings from even more countless church bake sales and Christmas bazaars, the UMW no longer really needs members. It has endowments to fuel its leftist politicking in perpetuity.
Just in time to back President Obama's immigration initiative, or more accurately, to offer proposals well to his left, UMW released its "Principles for How We Negotiate a Deal." Here is the essence of what the church women want: "All raids, detention and deportation of migrants should be suspended, instead shifting resources to immigration processing and services for underserved communities." So no further law enforcement, at all. They demand that immigration be forever detached from the "context of national security and border enforcement." Instead it should all focus on "human rights, including economic and social rights." Just to be clear, there must "no 'enforcement first' or enforcement/legalization trade-off deals." UMW likewise insists there be no more talk of "war on terror," which has "unjustly targeted Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrant communities." And no more talk of "war on drugs, "which after all was merely "pretext to profile, arrest, detain and shuttle primarily black and brown men through the criminal justice system directly to the deportation system."
Bracing indeed.
UMW warns against dividing immigrants by "criminal" versus "law-abiding" immigrants," or even "straight versus gay families, men versus women, immigrants currently in the United States versus those yet to come." America should instead just have a permanent "y'all come" policy, no matter who you are or what you've done. And this giant mosaic of "diverse and integrated constituencies must be part of the policymaking process." Don't try to marginalize anyone now, ya hear! Amnesty for current illegals must not be granted at the expense of "future" immigrants. UMW even frets that the 1986 mass legalization didn't go further in guaranteeing a warm welcome to all future illegals.
Oh, whoops, don't call anybody "illegal." If you do, that's your hang-up. There is, according to UMW and most of the Religious Left, a universal right to U.S. residence, citizenship and unlimited welfare and entitlement benefits. Illegals should instead be considered special visitors and soon to be family. They are also victims of U.S. "global economic, trade, finance, and war policy that has forced millions to migrate to the United States." What else could they do? Of course, absent the U.S., there would be universal peace and prosperity with no need for mass immigration. But since we're stuck with America, there must be endless atonement and reparations from the guilty nation. Even "past criminal convictions of immigrants" ought not to matter. Are we going to be hospitable, or what? Employers must not be penalized for hiring illegals because, of course, nobody should be illegal. Even guest worker status must be abolished because it implies less than full automatic citizenship.
And of course UMW mandates that all immigrants immediately access all welfare and entitlement programs, including "reproductive and sexual health," i.e. free contraceptives and abortions, courtesy of the taxpayer!
Also, no more walls or border security, please, which is so unwelcoming. What do we want our guests to think of us? UMW declares: "End militarization of the U.S. border!" UMW likewise wants to ditch free trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA.
Unconsidered or at least unmentioned in the UMW's "principles" are the unfairness of illegal immigrants needing to travel to the U.S., at their own expense no less. Shouldn't the U.S. offer travel vouchers to ensure safe and comfortable voyage? Better yet, why not U.S. stipends for all the tens of millions around the world who might like to relocate to the U.S. but would just as enjoyably stay home if subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, saving everyone the hassle of the immigration process?
Thank you, United Methodist Women, or at least your New York spokespersons, for so comprehensively and earnestly illustrating the absurd logical outcome of the most extreme "immigration reform" arguments from the Religious Left. The UMW's non-negotiable principles, so filled with grievance and resentment, insult and dishonor all the millions of immigrants who have legitimately made America great over the centuries. They came to build a nation not of chaos and entitlement, but of laws and reward for honest endeavor.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Burmese Wars
BURMESE WARS. Three wars were fought between Burma and the British during the 19th century (see Burma: History), which resulted in the gradual extinction of Burmese independence.
First Burmese War, 1823–26.—On the 23rd of September 1823 an armed party of Burmese attacked a British guard on Shapura, an island close to the Chittagong side, killing and wounding six of the guard. Two Burmese armies, one from Manipur and another from Assam, also entered Cachar, which was under British protection, in January 1824. War with Burma was formally declared on the 5th of March 1824. On the 17th of May a Burmese force invaded Chittagong and drove a mixed sepoy and police detachment from its position at Ramu, but did not follow up its success. The British rulers in India, however, had resolved to carry the war into the enemy's country; an armament, under Commodore Charles Grant and Sir Archibald Campbell, entered the Rangoon river, and anchored off the town on the 10th of May 1824. After a feeble resistance the place, then little more than a large stockaded village, was surrendered, and the troops were landed. The place was entirely deserted by its inhabitants, the provisions were carried off or destroyed, and the invading force took possession of a complete solitude. On the 28th of May Sir A. Campbell ordered an attack on some of the nearest posts, which were all carried after a steadily weakening defence. Another attack was made on the 10th of June on the stockades at the village of Kemmendine. Some of these were battered by artillery from the war vessels in the river, and the shot and shells had such effect on the Burmese that they evacuated them, after a very unequal resistance. It soon, however, became apparent that the expedition had been undertaken with very imperfect knowledge of the country, and without adequate provision. The devastation of the country, which was part of the defensive system of the Burmese, was carried out with unrelenting rigour, and the invaders were soon reduced to great difficulties. The health of the men declined, and their ranks were fearfully thinned. The monarch of Ava sent large reinforcements to his dispirited and beaten army; and early in June an attack was commenced on the British line, but proved unsuccessful. On the 8th the British assaulted. The enemy were beaten at all points; and their strongest stockaded works, battered to pieces by a powerful artillery, were in general abandoned. With the exception of an attack by the prince of Tharrawaddy in the end of August, the enemy allowed the British to remain unmolested during the months of July and August. This interval was employed by Sir A. Campbell in subduing the Burmese provinces of Tavoy and Mergui, and the whole coast of Tenasserim. This was an important conquest, as the country was salubrious and afforded convalescent stations to the sick, who were now so numerous in the British army that there were scarcely 3000 soldiers fit for duty. An expedition was about this time sent against the old Portuguese fort and factory of Syriam, at the mouth of the Pegu river, which was taken; and in October the province of Martaban was reduced under the authority of the British.
The rainy season terminated about the end of October; and the court of Ava, alarmed by the discomfiture of its armies, recalled the veteran legions which were employed in Arakan, under their renowned leader Maha Bandula. Bandula hastened by forced marches to the defence of his country; and by the end of November an army of 60,000 men had surrounded the British position at Rangoon and Kemmendine, for the defence of which Sir Archibald Campbell had only 5000 efficient troops. The enemy in great force made repeated attacks on Kemmendine without success, and on the 7th of December Bandula was defeated in a counter attack made by Sir A. Campbell. The fugitives retired to a strong position on the river, which they again entrenched; and here they were attacked by the British on the 15th, and driven in complete confusion from the field.
Sir Archibald Campbell now resolved to advance on Prome, about 100 m. higher up the Irrawaddy river. He moved with his force on the 13th of February 1825 in two divisions, one proceeding by land, and the other, under General Willoughby Cotton, destined for the reduction of Danubyu, being embarked on the flotilla. Taking the command of the land force, he continued his advance till the 11th of March, when intelligence reached him of the failure of the attack upon Danubyu. He instantly commenced a retrograde march; on the 27th he effected a junction with General Cotton's force, and on the 2nd of April entered the entrenchments at Danubyu without resistance, Bandula having been killed by the explosion of a bomb. The English general entered Prome on the 25th, and remained there during the rainy season. On the 17th of September an armistice was concluded for one month. In the course of the summer General Joseph Morrison had conquered the province of Arakan; in the north the Burmese were expelled from Assam; and the British had made some progress in Cachar, though their advance was finally impeded by the thick forests and jungle.
The armistice having expired on the 3rd of November, the army of Ava, amounting to 60,000 men, advanced in three divisions against the British position at Prome, which was defended by 3000 Europeans and 2000 native troops. But the British still triumphed, and after several actions, in which the Burmese were the assailants and were partially successful, Sir A. Campbell, on the 1st of December, attacked the different divisions of their army, and successively drove them from all their positions, and dispersed them in every direction. The Burmese retired on Malun, along the course of the Irrawaddy, where they occupied, with 10,000 or 12,000 men, a series of strongly fortified heights and a formidable stockade. On the 26th they sent a flag of truce to the British camp; and negotiations having commenced, peace was proposed to them on the following conditions:—(1) The cession of Arakan, together with the provinces of Mergui, Tavoy and Ye; (2) the renunciation by the Burmese sovereign of all claims upon Assam and the contiguous petty states; (3) the Company to be paid a crore of rupees as an indemnification for the expenses of the war; (4) residents from each court to be allowed, with an escort of fifty men; while it was also stipulated that British ships should no longer be obliged to unship their rudders and land their guns as formerly in the Burmese ports. This treaty was agreed to and signed, but the ratification of the king was still wanting; and it was soon apparent that the Burmese had no intention to sign it, but were preparing to renew the contest. On the 19th of January, accordingly, Sir A. Campbell attacked and carried the enemy's position at Malun. Another offer of peace was here made by the Burmese, but it was found to be insincere; and the fugitive army made at the ancient city of Pagan a final stand in defence of the capital. They were attacked and overthrown on the 9th of February 1826; and the invading force being now within four days' march of Ava, Dr Price, an American missionary, who with other Europeans had been thrown into prison when the war commenced, was sent to the British camp with the treaty (known as the treaty of Yandaboo) ratified, the prisoners of war released, and an instalment of 25 lakhs of rupees. The war was thus brought to a successful termination, and the British army evacuated the country.
Second Burmese War, 1852.—On the 15th of March 1852 Lord Dalhousie sent an ultimatum to King Pagan, announcing that hostile operations would be commenced if all his demands were not agreed to by the 1st of April. Meanwhile a force consisting of 8100 troops had been despatched to Rangoon under the command of General H. T. Godwin, C.B., while Commodore Lambert commanded the naval contingent. No reply being given to this letter, the first blow of the Second Burmese War was struck by the British on the 5th of April 1852, when Martaban was taken. Rangoon town was occupied on the 12th, and the Shwe Dagôn pagoda on the 14th, after heavy fighting, when the Burmese army retired northwards. Bassein was seized on the 19th of May, and Pegu was taken on the 3rd of June, after some sharp fighting round the Shwe-maw-daw pagoda. During the rainy season the approval of the East India Company's court of directors and of the British government was obtained to the annexation of the lower portion of the Irrawaddy Valley, including Prome. Lord Dalhousie visited Rangoon in July and August, and discussed the whole situation with the civil, military and naval authorities. In consequence General Godwin occupied Prome on the 9th of October after but slight resistance. Early in December Lord Dalhousie informed King Pagan that the province of Pegu would henceforth form part of the British dominions, and that if his troops resisted the measure his whole kingdom would be destroyed. The proclamation of annexation was issued on the 20th of January 1853, and thus the Second Burmese War was brought to an end without any treaty being signed.
Third Burmese War, 1885–86.—The imposition of an impossible fine on the Bombay-Burma Trading Company, coupled with the threat of confiscation of all their rights and property in case of non-payment, led to the British ultimatum of the 22nd of October 1885; and by the 9th of November a practical refusal of the terms having been received at Rangoon, the occupation of Mandalay and the dethronement of King Thibaw were determined upon. At this time, beyond the fact that the country was one of dense jungle, and therefore most unfavourable for military operations, little was known of the interior of Upper Burma; but British steamers had for years been running on the great river highway of the Irrawaddy, from Rangoon to Mandalay, and it was obvious that the quickest and most satisfactory method of carrying out the British campaign was an advance by water direct on the capital. Fortunately a large number of light-draught river steamers and barges (or "flats"), belonging to the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, were available at Rangoon, and the local knowledge of the company's officers of the difficult river navigation was at the disposal of the government. Major-General, afterwards Sir, H. N. D. Prendergast, V.C., K.C.B., R.E., was placed in command of the expedition. As was only to be expected in an enterprise of this description, the navy as well as the army was called in requisition; and as usual the services rendered by the seamen and guns were most important. The total effective of the force was 9034 fighting men, 2810 native followers and 67 guns, and for river service, 24 machine guns. The river fleet which conveyed the troops and stores was composed of a total of no less than 55 steamers, barges, launches, &c.
Thayetmyo was the British post on the river nearest to the frontier, and here, by 14th November, five days after Thibaw's answer had been received, practically the whole expedition was assembled. On the same day General Prendergast received instructions to commence operations. The Burmese king and his country were taken completely by surprise by the unexampled rapidity of the advance. There had been no time for them to collect and organize the stubborn resistance of which the river and its defences were capable. They had not even been able to block the river by sinking steamers, &c., across it, for, on the very day of the receipt of orders to advance, the armed steamers, the "Irrawaddy" and "Kathleen," engaged the nearest Burmese batteries, and brought out from under their guns the king's steamer and some barges which were lying in readiness for this very purpose. On the 16th the batteries themselves on both banks were taken by a land attack, the enemy being evidently unprepared and making no resistance. On the 17th of November, however, at Minhla, on the right bank of the river, the Burmans in considerable force held successively a barricade, a pagoda and the redoubt of Minhla. The attack was pressed home by a brigade of native infantry on shore, covered by a bombardment from the river, and the enemy were defeated with a loss of 170 killed and 276 prisoners, besides many more drowned in the attempt to escape by the river. The advance was continued next day and the following days, the naval brigade and heavy artillery leading and silencing in succession the enemy's river defences at Nyaungu, Pakôkku and Myingyan. On the 26th of November, when the flotilla was approaching the ancient capital of Ava, envoys from King Thibaw met General Prendergast with offers of surrender; and on the 27th, when the ships were lying off that city and ready to commence hostilities, the order of the king to his troops to lay down their arms was received. There were three strong forts here, full at that moment with thousands of armed Burmans, and though a large number of these filed past and laid down their arms by the king's command, still many more were allowed to disperse with their weapons; and these, in the time that followed, broke up into dacoit or guerrilla bands, which became the scourge of the country and prolonged the war for years. Meanwhile, however, the surrender of the king of Burma was complete; and on the 28th of November, in less than a fortnight from the declaration of war, Mandalay had fallen, and the king himself was a prisoner, while every strong fort and town on the river, and all the king's ordnance (1861 pieces), and thousands of rifles, muskets and arms had been taken. Much valuable and curious "loot" and property was found in the palace and city of Mandalay, which, when sold, realized about 9 lakhs of rupees (£60,000).
From Mandalay, General Prendergast seized Bhamo on the 28th of December. This was a very important move, as it forestalled the Chinese, who were preparing to claim the place. But unfortunately, although the king was dethroned and deported, and the capital and the whole of the river in the hands of the British, the bands of armed soldiery, unaccustomed to conditions other than those of anarchy, rapine and murder, took advantage of the impenetrable cover of their jungles to continue a desultory armed resistance. Reinforcements had to be poured into the country, and it was in this phase of the campaign, lasting several years, that the most difficult and most arduous work fell to the lot of the troops. It was in this jungle warfare that the losses from battle, sickness and privation steadily mounted up; and the troops, both British and native, proved once again their fortitude and courage.
Various expeditions followed one another in rapid succession, penetrating to the remotest corners of the land, and bringing peace and protection to the inhabitants, who, it must be mentioned, suffered at least as much from the dacoits as did the troops. The final, and now completely successful, pacification of the country, under the direction of Sir Frederick (afterwards Earl) Roberts, was only brought about by an extensive system of small protective posts scattered all over the country, and small lightly equipped columns moving out to disperse the enemy whenever a gathering came to a head, or a pretended prince or king appeared.
No account of the Third Burmese War would be complete without a reference to the first, and perhaps for this reason most notable, land advance into the enemy's country. This was carried out in November 1885 from Toungoo, the British frontier post in the east of the country, by a small column of all arms under Colonel W. P. Dicken, 3rd Madras Light Infantry, the first objective being Ningyan. The operations were completely successful, in spite of a good deal of scattered resistance, and the force afterwards moved forward to Yamethin and Hlaingdet. As inland operations developed, the want of mounted troops was badly felt, and several regiments of cavalry were brought over from India, while mounted infantry was raised locally. It was found that without these most useful arms it was generally impossible to follow up and punish the active enemy.


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Part One: The Networked Information Economy
For more than 150 years, new communications technologies have tended to concentrate and commercialize the production and exchange of information, while extending the geographic and social reach of information distribution networks. High-volume mechanical presses and the telegraph combined with new business practices to change newspapers from small-circulation local efforts into mass media. Newspapers became means of communications intended to reach ever-larger and more dispersed audiences, and their management required substantial capital investment. As the size of the audience and its geographic and social dispersion increased, public discourse developed an increasingly one-way model. Information and opinion that was widely known and formed the shared basis for political conversation and broad social relations flowed from ever more capital-intensive commercial and professional producers to passive, undifferentiated consumers. It was a model easily adopted and amplified by radio, television, and later cable and satellite communications. This trend did not cover all forms of communication and culture. Telephones and personal interactions, most importantly, and small-scale distributions, like mimeographed handbills, were obvious alternatives. Yet the growth of efficient transportation and effective large-scale managerial and administrative structures meant that the sources of effective political and economic power extended over larger geographic areas and required reaching a larger and more geographically dispersed population. The economics of long-distance mass distribution systems necessary to reach this constantly increasing and more dispersed relevant population were typified by high up-front costs and low marginal costs of distribution. These cost characteristics drove cultural production toward delivery to ever-wider audiences of increasingly high production-value goods, whose fixed costs could be spread over ever-larger audiences-like television series, recorded music, and movies. Because of these economic characteristics, the mass-media model of information and cultural production and transmission became the dominant form of public communication in the twentieth century.
The Internet presents the possibility of a radical reversal of this long trend. It is the first modern communications medium that expands its reach by decentralizing the capital structure of production and distribution of information, culture, and knowledge. Much of the physical capital that embeds most of the intelligence in the network is widely diffused and owned by end users. Network routers and servers are not qualitatively different from the computers that end users own, unlike broadcast stations or cable systems, which are radically different in economic and technical terms from the televisions that receive their signals. This basic change in the material conditions of information and cultural production and distribution have substantial effects on how we come to know the world we occupy and the alternative courses of action open to us as individuals and as social actors. Through these effects, the emerging networked environment structures how we perceive and pursue core values in modern liberal societies.
Technology alone does not, however, determine social structure. The introduction of print in China and Korea did not induce the kind of profound religious and political reformation that followed the printed Bible and disputations in Europe. But technology is not irrelevant, either. Luther's were not the first disputations nailed to a church door. Print, however, made it practically feasible for more than 300,000 copies of Luther's publications to be circulated between 1517 and 1520 in a way that earlier disputations could not have been.1 Vernacular reading of the Bible became a feasible form of religious self-direction only when printing these Bibles and making them available to individual households became economically feasible, and not when all copyists were either monks or otherwise dependent on the church. Technology creates feasibility spaces for social practice. Some things become easier and cheaper, others harder and more expensive to do or to prevent under different technological conditions. The interaction between these technological-economic feasibility spaces, and the social responses to these changes-both in terms of institutional changes, like law and regulation, and in terms of changing social practices-define the qualities of a period. The way life is actually lived by people within a given set of interlocking technological, economic, institutional, and social practices is what makes a society attractive or unattractive, what renders its practices laudable or lamentable.
A particular confluence of technical and economic changes is now altering the way we produce and exchange information, knowledge, and culture in ways that could redefine basic practices, first in the most advanced economies, and eventually around the globe. The potential break from the past 150 years is masked by the somewhat liberal use of the term "information economy" in various permutations since the 1970s. The term has been used widely to signify the dramatic increase in the importance of usable information as a means of controlling production and the flow of inputs, outputs, and services. While often evoked as parallel to the "postindustrial" stage, in fact, the information economy was tightly linked throughout the twentieth century with controlling the processes of the industrial economy. This is clearest in the case of accounting firms and financial markets, but is true of the industrial modalities of organizing cultural production as well. Hollywood, the broadcast networks, and the recording industry were built around a physical production model. Once the cultural utterances, the songs or movies, were initially produced and fixed in some means of storage and transmission, the economics of production and distribution of these physical goods took over. Making the initial utterances and the physical goods that embodied them required high capital investment up front. Making many copies was not much more expensive than making few copies, and very much cheaper on a per-copy basis. These industries therefore organized themselves to invest large sums in making a small number of high production-value cultural "artifacts," which were then either replicated and stamped onto many low-cost copies of each artifact, or broadcast or distributed through high-cost systems for low marginal cost ephemeral consumption on screens and with receivers. This required an effort to manage demand for those products that were in fact recorded and replicated or distributed, so as to make sure that the producers could sell many units of a small number of cultural utterances at a low per-unit cost, rather than few units each of many cultural utterances at higher per-unit costs. Because of its focus around capital-intensive production and distribution techniques, this first stage might best be thought of as the "industrial information economy."
Radical decentralization of intelligence in our communications network and the centrality of information, knowledge, culture, and ideas to advanced economic activity are leading to a new stage of the information economy-the networked information economy. In this new stage, we can harness many more of the diverse paths and mechanisms for cultural transmission that were muted by the economies of scale that led to the rise of the concentrated, controlled form of mass media, whether commercial or state-run. The most important aspect of the networked information economy is the possibility it opens for reversing the control focus of the industrial information economy. In particular, it holds out the possibility of reversing two trends in cultural production central to the project of control: concentration and commercialization.
Two fundamental facts have changed in the economic ecology in which the industrial information enterprises have arisen. First, the basic output that has become dominant in the most advanced economies is human meaning and communication. Second, the basic physical capital necessary to express and communicate human meaning is the connected personal computer. The core functionalities of processing, storage, and communications are widely owned throughout the population of users. Together, these changes destabilize the industrial stage of the information economy. Both the capacity to make meaning-to encode and decode humanly meaningful statements-and the capacity to communicate one's meaning around the world, are held by, or readily available to, at least many hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Any person who has information can connect with any other person who wants it, and anyone who wants to make it mean something in some context, can do so. The high capital costs that were a prerequisite to gathering, working, and communicating information, knowledge, and culture, have now been widely distributed in the society. The entry barrier they posed no longer offers a condensation point for the large organizations that once dominated the information environment. Instead, emerging models of information and cultural production, radically decentralized and based on emergent patterns of cooperation and sharing, but also of simple coordinate coexistence, are beginning to take on an ever-larger role in how we produce meaning-information, knowledge, and culture-in the networked information economy.
A Google response to a query, which returns dozens or more sites with answers to an information question you may have, is an example of coordinate coexistence producing information. As Jessica Litman demonstrated in Sharing and Stealing, hundreds of independent producers of information, acting for reasons ranging from hobby and fun to work and sales, produce information, independently and at widely varying costs, related to what you were looking for. They all coexist without knowing of each other, most of them without thinking or planning on serving you in particular, or even a class of user like you. Yet the sheer volume and diversity of interests and sources allows their distributed, unrelated efforts to be coordinated-through the Google algorithm in this case, but also through many others-into a picture that has meaning and provides the answer to your question. Other, more deeply engaged and cooperative enterprises are also emerging on the Internet. Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia coauthored by fifty thousand volunteers, is one particularly effective example of many such enterprises.
The technical conditions of communication and information processing are enabling the emergence of new social and economic practices of information and knowledge production. Eisenstein carefully documented how print loosened the power of the church over information and knowledge production in Europe, and enabled, particularly in the Protestant North, the emergence of early modern capitalist enterprises in the form of print shops. These printers were able to use their market revenues to become independent of the church or the princes, as copyists never were, and to form the economic and social basis of a liberal, market-based freedom of thought and communication. Over the past century and a half, these early printers turned into the commercial mass media: A particular type of market-based production-concentrated, largely homogenous, and highly commercialized-that came to dominate our information environment by the end of the twentieth century. On the background of that dominant role, the possibility that a radically different form of information production will emerge-decentralized; socially, no less than commercially, driven; and as diverse as human thought itself-offers the promise of a deep change in how we see the world around us, how we come to know about it and evaluate it, and how we are capable of communicating with others about what we know, believe, and plan.
This part of the book is dedicated to explaining the technological-economic transformation that is making these practices possible. Not because economics drives all; not because technology determines the way society or communication go; but because it is the technological shock, combined with the economic sustainability of the emerging social practices, that creates the new set of social and political opportunities that are the subject of this book. By working out the economics of these practices, we can understand the economic parameters within which practical political imagination and fulfillment can operate in the digitally networked environment. I describe sustained productive enterprises that take the form of decentralized and nonmarket-based production, and explain why productivity and growth are consistent with a shift toward such modes of production. What I describe is not an exercise in pastoral utopianism. It is not a vision of a return to production in a preindustrial world. It is a practical possibility that directly results from our economic understanding of information and culture as objects of production. It flows from fairly standard economic analysis applied to a very nonstandard economic reality: one in which all the means of producing and exchanging information and culture are placed in the hands of hundreds of millions, and eventually billions, of people around the world, available for them to work with not only when they are functioning in the market to keep body and soul together, but also, and with equal efficacy, when they are functioning in society and alone, trying to give meaning to their lives as individuals and as social beings.


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Show SummaryAdam and the gang welcome Fred Wolf to the stage from the top of the show. Adam and Alison talk about their road trip from LA, and an eventful stop at a truck stop Baja Fresh. Adam then takes some audience questions about the kids' bathroom habits, whether or not he'll run for political office, and why he hates churros. He also talks about a classic Kimmel prank, and discusses a long lost videotape. Fred Wolf talks with the gang about the project he's been working on with people such as Dana Carvey and David Spade. Alison begins the news discussing the closing of Hostess, and the rising prices of Twinkies. Later they discuss Janeane Garofalo's secret marriage, the death of Lucille Bliss, and an interesting driver's license statistic. As the show wraps up, Adam talks about teaching driver's ed, and complains about guys who can't drive a stick shift.
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