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Dress Of Women - Gloves, Shoes, And Stays
( Originally Published 1902 )
OUR colonial ancestors wore many varieties of gloves. We find among the importations from time to time : worsted and kid gloves, 1743 ; shammy and glazed gloves and silk mittens, 1750 ; women's and maid's black ruff gloves, white kid and lamb gloves, glazed kid and lamb, unbound and ribbon-bound gloves, and coloured flapped mittens, 1751 ; French gloves, black, white, and coloured silk mits, and neat tanned and glazed satten gloves, 1754; satten gloves, black silk mits, trimmed glove-tops, purple and black kid gloves and mits, and silk and worsted mits, 1761 ; and purple, black, white and cloth-coloured mits and gloves, silk, worsted, kid, and lamb's gloves, and black and coloured mits, 1769. In addition to these gloves worn for dress, there were "chicken skin " gloves made of a thin strong leather and dressed with almonds and spermaceti. These were worn at night to make the hands "plump, soft and white."
The laces and ribbons of the day have already been described with the hats and caps. We must re-member that lace was used for ruffles which were an important finish to the sleeve. Ruffles were also made of the popular gauze and lawn, and were plain, checked, or flowered. " Dresden ruffles" for men and women were advertised in 1754. Gauzes, Paris net and catgut came in colours, as well as in black and white ; and lawns were clear, flowered, spotted, checquered, or of the kind known as " minionet." Hand-kerchiefs were of silk, lawn, satin, linen or gauze. We find them designated as flowered bordered, flowered Kenting, Barcelona, culgee, rosette, satin check, and also made of black and light-coloured gauze, of striped flowered and spotted lawn, of white with flowered borders, and with flowered and striped borders.
We must not forget to mention the important apron, which was often worn on dress occasions. This article became extremely fashionable in England during the reign of William III., when it was small and edged with lace. In the reign of George II. it was worn very long and, sometimes, was quite plain in comparison to that fashionable in Queen Anne's day. Then it was embroidered and ornamented with gold or silver lace and spangles. Beau Nash, the autocrat of Bath, very properly objected to the apron, and he forbade any lady wearing one to be admitted to the assemblies at Bath ; for he said " none but Abigails appear in white aprons." For some unknown reason aprons lingered ; and we find them in New York, just as we do in London, made of flowered and plain lawn, gauze, gauze with trollys (evidently a kind of lace) and finely flowered. In 1751, a New York lady offers a pistole reward for a lost " fine flowered muslin apron."
The belle of the Eighteenth Century paid much attention to the dressing of her feet. Owing to the shortness of her hoop petticoat, which subjected her to so much ridicule, her shoe was always visible, and as long as the wide spreading skirt remained in fashion, the style of shoe or slipper changed but little. From the many examples contained in Hogarth's pictures, we are familiar enough with the slender, pointed toe, high vamp, large buckles and enormous heel,—the type that lasted from about 1753, when we read :
" Mount on French heels when you go to a ball—'
to 1771, when a lady was described as wearing heels that were three inches and a half high.
These delicate and uncomfortable shoes—for the high heels pitched the body forward and forced the wearer to adopt a slow and mincing gait—were frequently embroidered with flowers on silk or satin and ornamented with a diamond, paste, or silver buckle. Again, they would be made of satin, figured silk, dam-ask, calimanco, russell, or everlasting. London sent very handsome shoes to New York : rich gold and silver-point shoe-shapes and embroidered shoe-tops appeared in 1750, with the cheaper red and drab shoes, and women's and girls' damask, russell and everlasting shoes ; silk and stuff shoes were imported in 1751; women's leather shoes and pumps, 1760; women's satin shoes, 1761 ; and women's and maids' calimanco shoes and children's Morocco pumps, 1769.
There were several fashionable shoemakers here. In 1765, one announces : "Women's best silk, russell, callimanco and everlasting shoes made in New York, equal if not superior to any made in London, by James Wells." Another, was John Lasker, who lived in Bowling Green, next door to Mr. Samuel Bayard's ; a third, was John Milligan in Beaver Street ; and a fourth was Benjamin Burras, silk and stuff shoemaker in Broad Street, in 1773. Clogs and pattens, and goloshes and silk ear'd clogs appear in 1760.
Cloaks were worn all through our period. We find short cloaks, in 1751 ; scarlet drab and blue cloaks, 1753; and women's fashionable short cloaks, 1754. The most popular of all were the capuchin, which, as we have already seen, had a hood, and the cardinal. The latter was a cloak like a cardinal's which the ladies began to wear about 1760. Sometimes they were very handsome, being made of buff, black, blue, and green figured modes.* Frequently we find special advertisements of capuchin and cardinal silks of all colours. Cardinal fringe and gimp were specially made to trim these garments. The cardinal was a kind of evening wrap. In 1764, we read :
Lost out of a sleigh last Tuesday evening, or taken by mistake from the Assembly Room, a new figured black satin cardinal with spotted black and white fur trimmings. Likewise, lost at the ball at Mr. Francis's a plain black satin cardinal with figured brown and white fur trimmings, somewhat worn."
In 1774, fashionable cloaks were of sage green and light brown trimmed with ermine.
Among the miscellaneous articles, were fans and girdles, 1732 ; nonesopretties, 1743 ; bone and coco stick fans, fine silver tippets with French flowers, a rich silver net shape, cauls, and silk belts, 1750 ; velvet masks, black patches, and an assortment of fans and necklaces, 1751 ; Paris net and catgut pompoons, bugles, bugle stomachers, painted bone and ivory stick fans and black velvet masks, 1754 ; enamelled snuff and patch-boxes, 1760 ; ivory stick fans and fan-mounts, 1761 ; china, silver, snuff and patch-boxes, 1761 ; tortoiseshell pocket-books with ivory leaves lettered, 1762 ; muffs and tippets, tortoiseshell, horn and ivory combs, black feathers, all sorts of Italian and French flowers, velvet collars, Italian head-dresses, and plumes and breast flowers, 1767 ; ostrich feathers for riding-hats, Italian breast flowers and plumes, great variety of ivory fans, smelling-bottles, ivory bodkins, green silk purses, crystal bosom buttons, fringe, black and blue feathers, skeleton and cap wire, and fashionable fans, 1769.
The fans of the period were almost invariably of beautiful design. The sticks were of carved wood, or ivory ; sometimes they were imported from the Orient. The mount was of vellum, silk, gauze, or paper, and beautifully painted. Nearly every conceivable subject was thought appropriate for its decoration, from pastorals, fetes-champetres, classical figures, mythological fancies, allegorical conceits, emblems, scenes from operas and plays, royal marriages, christenings, and victories to caricatures and portraits. There were also fortune-telling fans, riddle fans, calandar fans, etc. Two handsome French fans of the time, belonging to Mrs. Henry Draper, are shown on page 223 and below. Another, from the Museum in Cooper Union, appears on page 263.
Throughout our period, woman was very particular about her figure. She felt it necessary to conform to the fashionable shape, which, generally speaking, was a long narrow bodice very tightly laced. Young girls and portly matrons alike squeezed themselves into the stiff cases of whalebone, or buckram, or some-times steel, that could produce the desired form. In 1734, stays were extremely low, but fashion decreed that the position of the waist should vary every few years, and stays were sometimes worn outside. Stay-makers were constantly arriving from London with the latest fashions, and every change in shape was quickly followed.
In 1764, " Joseph Beck, staymaker, who served his apprenticeship with Mr. Samuel Panton of Dublin, and for several years wrought with several of the most eminent Masters in London and Bath, removes to Smith Street, and makes " English, French turn'd and Mecklenburg Stays and Jumps, in a new easy Method that's now used in London, Children's Coats and Slips. Ladies that reside in the Country by sending their Measure or the Lining of their Stays, may depend on having their commands executed with the greatest Care and Despatch." A little later, he assured his patrons that he would " always make it his constant Care to have the newest Fashions early from London." As a proof that they did get the newest shapes, we may note that in June, 1765 McQueen " has a quantity of the newest fashioned diamond cut bone stays ; they were made in London since the be-ginning of December last."
In 1767, John McQueen called himself "stay-maker, at the Sign of the Stays." He has " a fresh assortment of new fashion'd stays, children's pack thread stays from one to eight years old, children's bone stays from one to twelve years old, women and maids' stays of different sorts and sizes, a few neat polished steel collars for Misses, so much worn at the boarding schools in London."
At this date, stays were as tight as ever ; but were high behind and low before, and the figure was carried with a peculiar fall of the shoulders and elevation of the bust. Young girls were taught to hold them-selves very stiffly, and frequently a long needle was stuck uprightly in the front of the dress, so that if the head was bent over too far, the needle would pierce the chin. The steel collars " mentioned above were, in all probability some device of this nature. Much attention was paid to the holding of the body and the rigid attitudes of the portraits were not at all uncommon positions.
It is noticeable that these stay-makers fashioned children's clothes, but did not seem to undertake any other outside garments for ladies save jumps, a kind of sleeveless coat, and " Mechlinburg waistcoats."
A very interesting child's costume appears on this page, in a portrait of Catharine Elmendorph (1747—1787) painted in 1754. The dress is brown and the stomacher white.
The bodice was cut to fit tightly over the stays ; and was low both back and front for evening dress, and often high in the back and square in the front for ordinary dress. Lace, or gauze, ruffles frequently framed in the neck and ornamented the sleeves. An excellent idea of a typical dress in George II.'s reign appears on page 297.
The stomacher was an important adjunct to the bodice. We find it sometimes of stiff linen like the one that Mrs. Vallete wears on page 206. Stomachers were of gold and silver ; there were bugle stomachers (glass beads) ; white dimothy stomachers ; and many others. In front of the bodice was hung the stay-hook " upon which the watch or etui was hung. This frequently appears in the jewellers' lists. There were also breast-flowers, pompons, crystal bosom-buttons, breast-buckles, and many other articles that adorned the front of the dress, and very often a bow of ribbon was worn, as in the portrait of Mrs. Ray on page 202, who is dressed in a sea-green satin gown. This portrait was originally in the King Mansion at Jamaica, L. I. Some of Mrs. Ray's silver appears on page 138.


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In "The Courting of Sister Wisby," Jewetts employs the formula of a first-person narrator repeating a story told by another. Mrs. Goodsoe, the central narrator, is a born storyteller—with seemingly total recall of events. Her speech patterns combine directness, pathos, and rural humor, and include folksy grammar mangling. Mrs. Goodsoe's gossip about one neighbor after another is reminiscent of dialogue in regional humorists from Mark Twain to William Faulkner. Its apparent wandering aimlessness conceals a solid structural unity. Her first tale concerns the natural goodness of Jim Heron. He materialized out of the dark forest to play restorative music. His last name echoes the title of Jewett's most popular short story, "The White Heron" (1886). The name Goodsoe is deliberately close to "good soul." By contrast, Brimblecom's exploitative quack religiosity is vilified, together with Eliza Wisby's hardly different failings. The two "lovers," if they may be so designated, survive for a time, and Eliza becomes humble and generous. Silas, the dependent male spouse, earns the nickname "Brimfull" pinned on him by critical neighbors.
By contrast, Mother Nature is brimful of gifts for those who love and respect her. Aspects of the landscape—sloping fields, nearby evergreens, vines, fences, wind off the coast, pennyroyal and a half dozen other named herbs, dangerous swamps, and berries—all harmonize as in an impressionistic painting...
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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., spoke Tuesday at a news conference at Mogadishu's airport. Ellison said his visit fulfilled a request from his constituents.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison flew into war-ravaged Somalia on Tuesday for an unannounced stay inside the fortified compound of the Mogadishu airport, the first visit by a member of Congress since the Obama administration recognized the new government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
The Minneapolis Democrat, whose district includes 32,000 people of Somali descent, described it as a humanitarian trip to discuss refugee problems and U.S. money transfers, many of them from relatives in Minnesota.
For Ellison, the trip continued a growing legacy of visits to global trouble spots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and Congo. In 2009, he and then-Sen. John Kerry were among the first U.S. government officials in more than three years to enter the Gaza Strip, where Ellison was filmed by Arab television stations carrying boxes of aid materials.
The next day, he went to Israeli towns that had suffered rocket attacks from Gaza.
Ellison said in a telephone interview Tuesday that he hoped his presence in Somalia would send a message to the world that Somalia is stabilizing, with the help of its global diaspora of citizens.
"It's something I think is important to do," said Ellison, speaking from Nairobi, Kenya, before heading back to Minnesota. "It's important to help emerging democracies maintain their course toward being free, democratic, prosperous nations."
Ellison's Africa journey coincides with that of U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, a St. Paul Democrat who is on a five-day trip to South Sudan and Tanzania sponsored by the international relief organization CARE.
Ellison's office said his trip is being sponsored by the American Refugee Committee, an international nonprofit with a presence in Somalia. He met with the group's director in Somalia, as well as with Mohamud, the mayor of Mogadishu, the Somali Chamber of Commerce and Somali-Americans from Minneapolis.
Among them was Aynte Abdi, a Minnesota-trained journalist who has returned to Somalia to head a think tank called the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies. "I'm trying to contribute to the recovery phase of our country," Abdi said from Nairobi, where he and Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, relaxed over evening tea.
Ellison said there was no advance notice of the trip for security reasons, which also restricted him to an airport compound guarded by African Union soldiers who have helped push Al-Shabab fighters out of the city.
Al-Shabab, a once-formidable Islamic group that succeeded in recruiting Somali-American youths from Minnesota, has been reduced to a "little guerrilla outfit," Ellison said. While the group can still mount attacks, he said, "what it can't do is contend with the government for power. They're getting weaker every day."
Ellison said that maintaining that stability will require the help of the international community and returning expatriates like Abdi, who studied at Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities: "They have this awesome diasporic community — all these people who gained expertise all around the world."
Another focus of Ellison's trip is money, in particular the troubled remittance industry that war- and drought-stricken Somalis rely on to live. "This is the lifeblood of the country," he said.
For many Somalis and their U.S. relatives, money transfers have been restricted by expanding anti-terrorism laws aimed at blocking the flow of funds to militant anti-Western groups such as Al-Shabab.
Many Somali money-transfer companies, known as hawalas, have been forced to shut down because of the reluctance of U.S. banks to risk doing business with them. The effects, Ellison said, have been devastating for Somalis and Somali-Americans in Minnesota, home to one of the largest Somali refugee populations in the nation. "These are their parents, their children and their loved ones," Ellison said.
In December, Ellison and Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., introduced legislation that would address the problem by simplifying oversight for money services businesses and other nonbank financial institutions.
The importance of the Minnesota-Somali relationship was underscored by Mohamud, who visited the Twin Cities last month immediately after then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton formally recognized his government.
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07 December, 2006
envy (invidia)
Divine virtue: Kindness
Punishment: Placed in freezing water
Symbol: Dog
Demon: Leviathan
Colour: Green
Furtive glances
there and where
shifty eyes
glean over
a jealous heart
turns a sickly
shade of green
pea soup
frog skin
putrid flesh
horse shit
dying leaf
jealousy washes
wave upon wave
stronger it pulses
wades in the sand
green with muck
parrot feather
bread mold
poison dart
demon tongue
sickened blood
green hues paint a world in the envious frame of jealousy
I've been waiting for this sin to come along. I can't throw any light on the dark green intricate avenues of envy. I can't claim to even begin to comprehend the whys and whats of jealousy. But I do know its natural. And I do know its often me.
01 December, 2006
wrath (ira)
Divine virtue: Meekness (composition)
Punishment: Dismembered alive
Symbol: Bear
Demon: Satan
Colour: Red
she is angry, wild whimpering
heated words spew out
showering sparks.
the third eye opens
wrath evoked.
a sullen mouth shapes
enraged thoughts
for nobody to catch
she lashes out
brimming, blowing forth.
needy in her cloudburst
unheard in her thunder
as the storm spends itself
she bottles up her wrath
seething inside.
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A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City
Apple's chief designer, Jonathan Ive, has been knighted in the Queen's New Year's honours list, principally for his work in industrial design and championing British talent abroad. Ive already received a CBE in 2006, among other awards.
The British Consul General in San Francisco, Priya Guha, said that Mr Ive "epitomises the strengths of British design and innovation".
In response Ive said: "I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. To be recognized with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful."
The former north-east Londoner is known as the mastermind behind Apple's hardware, from the iPod the iPhone to the Macbook Air. A graduate of design at Newcastle Polytechnic he moved to California to join Apple in 1992 and led Apple's design team since 1996.
He holds 596 design and utility patents, more than Steve Jobs did, who reached 317.
But New Year's honours are often political in nature. The Queen is not the one who draws up the list but the "Nominations Team of the Honours and Appointments Secretariat" – basically a mix on Number 10 and Buckinngham Palace officials. The list is then heavily gone over, mainly by Number 10.
New Year's Honours are frequently used to make political points. Steve Jobs was once rumoured to be in line for a knighthood under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but the story goes that he was refused because he wouldn't turn up to make a speech in the UK.
But it's clear that 2011 was a year which the UK government trumpeted the rise of tech startups and entrepreneurs in its official "Tech City" policy and its economic stance, particular it's recent Autumn economic statement which is poised to kick-start the Angel investment market in the UK.
So what better signal to send than to laud one of the architects of Apple's success as a global tech powerhouse?
Source: Knight Of The Round Tablet? UK Gov Honour for Ive Heralds New Year Of Tech
Source: Arise SIR Jonathan Ive
Steve Jobs' attention to the finest of details is well known throughout the tech world, the latest testament to that is Google VP Vic Gundotra's recollection of his phone call with Jobs in 2008 about an imperfection in the Google logo on the iPhone when pinned to the homescreen.
Another example of Jobs' immense attention to the finer aspects of product design and everything else is Apple's patents, 313Â out of which list Jobs as an inventor.
These patents cover a broad range of products including Desktop Computers, iPods, iOS devices, product packaging, power adaptors and even the glass staircases you would find in Apple stores.
Microsoft's Bill Gates has 9 patents to his name while Google's Larry and Sergey have a dozen patents, which is nowhere near Steve's 313.
Some of the filings date back to the 1980s, when Apple was a relatively young company, which was about to challenge the might of IBM, and in the future a lot of other companies as well. We have a look at some of Jobs' most remarkable patent applications, some of which made their way into the consumer market while some stay buried inside Apple's offices.
Jobs' First Patent Filing – The Design For A Personal Computer
This patent covers the design of the Apple I, the company's first product which was hand built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, which sold for $666.66 because Woz liked repeating digits. The patent claim reads "The ornamental design for a personal computer, substantially as shown". To get an idea of how complicated the process of getting the Apple-I to work as compared to present day computers was, have a look at the Apple-I manual (PDF link), which also features the earliest Apple logo with Newton sitting under an Apple tree.
This device, which was unshered in by the famous "1984″ commercial, was the first successful computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. The patent however doesn't say anything about the GUI, it instead talks about the all-in-one design of the computer which can be found even in today's iMac models.
The Dock
This patent was filed on behalf of NeXT Computer Inc., which later went on to merge with Apple. The patent, filed in 1991, describes the concept of a dock found in modern day operating systems like OS X and iOS. Although the idea of a dock may seem trivial right now, twenty years ago it wasn't all that common. The patent has various flowcharts describing different tasks like launching applications, rearranging icons and adding new applications to the dock.
Power Adapters
Steve Jobs' desire for perfection showed not just in software but even in accessory design. The iPad 2 smart cover, USB cables and power adapters are all examples of excellent design. (In some cases however the priority given to design makes the product more vulnerable to wear and tear, for example iPhone and iPod cables.)
Apple has multiple power adapter patents to its credit, each of which illustrate a different kind of design. The first patent filing showed a circular adapter, which later changed into a rectangular avatar and finally became the roundrect Magsafe adapters we all know of.
This was Jobs' way of revolutionising the music industry. First a device, then a digital store both with a large number of users forced music companies to sell their songs for a dollar resulting in a win for customers. Steve's name appears on 85 iPod patents, most of them dealing with the design of the product.
Pre-iPhone Patents
A number of patents filed in 2005 give us a glimpse into the iPhone's birth stages. The patent applications nowhere explicitly mention the iPhone, but familiar UI elements like table views, battery indicators and page indicators make an appearance in the images. One of these filings also reveal that at one point of time Apple envisioned an iPod clickwheel style of phone as well.
iPhone UI And Hardware Design
Numerous iPhone patents have been filed by Apple since its launch, perhaps foreseeing that it would have to battle out other hardware manufacturers in the future. An interesting image found in one of these patents, embedded above shows a trial option in a mockup of the AppStore.
Glass Staircases
Like Apple's products, its stores have been constant subjects of admiration. Turns out the glass staircases found in many Apple Stores has also been patented, with one of its inventors being Jobs himself.
Jobs has been named an inventor in more than 300 other patents pertaining to iPod headsets, packaging, laptops, displays and keyboards. While products like the "Clickwheel phone" didn't hit the shelves, many of these inventions were and still are critical to Apple's success. As New York Times points out, Jonathan Ive, Apple's design guru, shares more than 200 patents with Jobs hinting that Steve and Ive share the same design instincts.
The New York Times has a nice interactive feature on Steve's patents, hit the source link to have a look at it.
[via NYT]
Source: More Than 300 Patents In Steve Jobs' Name Stand Testament To His Attention To Detail
At today's iPad 2 press event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage, surprising attendees. Jobs, who has been on medical leave since early January, unsurprisingly received a standing ovation. He told the audience, "We've been working on this project for a while, and I just didn't want to miss this."
Apple and Jobs announced that he would be taking medical leave on January, with COO Tim Cook taking over the day to day operations for the company. While it's been unclear what Jobs' health issues are, his previous medical history includes Pancreatic cancer as well as a liver transplant. In 2004, Jobs contracted Pancreatic Cancer, which he beat. Then Jobs underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and also made a full recovery.
Jobs is usually a fixture at Apple product events and announcement but it was unclear if he would make it to this one considering the recent turn of events in his personal life. It was assumed that either Cook or Apple's head of design Jonathan Ive would be presenting today but it's great to see Jobs back in action and on stage.
Source: Amidst Medical Leave, Steve Jobs Takes The Stage At iPad 2 Event To A Standing Ovation
Leave it to those ambitious, young grad students to show us the objects of our desire that we didn't even realize we desired. Thanks to Jordi Parra, an Interaction Design student at the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden, we now have a futuristic new music player that lets you listen to Spotify from the comfort of your living room. (Only if your living room is in Europe, however, as Spotify is not yet available in the U.S.)
At first glance, the player — which Parra made as part of his final design project in collaboration with Spotify — looks like a digital lovechild of Jonathan Ive and the brilliant Swedes at Ikea. Perhaps the coolest feature of the product's design is its inclusion of 192 LED nodes, which display volume levels, battery life, and Internet connectivity on the device's face. Not too shabby for a degree project!
How does this bad boy work? The player uses radio frequency identification (or RFID) technology: place one of the colored RFID tags, which contain your playlists, onto the magnetized volume knob, and voila! As soon as the tag sticks to the knob, the antenna/Arduino in the player reads the tag and plays your hot jams. You stop those hot jams by simply removing the tag. Kinda cool, right?
In the case of Parra's reader, the information is actually transmitted via magnetic induction using the player's magnetic volume knob and an Arduino processing board to sense the tag and extract its contents. (Pictures of Parra's Arduino and the player's insides here if you have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.)
How you go about encoding your playlists on the RFID tags is a little equivocal, but it sounds like this is done by connecting the player to a computer via USB. This should automatically call up Spotify and begin configuration. The RFID tags are read-write, so once the tag is connected to the player (while the player is connected to your computer), you can change your songs or link to a new playlist.
The player is sold with a unique serial number that will essentially register your device with Parra, though "register" may be a strong word in this case. The serial number allows Parra (and perhaps his future company) to track the player and its corresponding tags. Obviously, as you may have guessed, RFID technology has the potential for myriad security and privacy issues. (Think of the ad technology in Minority report that is essentially Philip K. Dick's conjecture on RFID technology.) So, this will require some sensitivity on Parra's part should the player end up being sold at market by Spotify.
Though the inner workings of the device works may sound a bit complex at first glance, the UI is sleek and simple. Use the two small buttons in the lower left corner of the speaker (as seen in the above image) to skip to the previous and next tracks in your queue. The adjacent magnetized knob holds your tags and controls volume. The slick packaging that would ship with the player will include 8 RFID tags (which incidentally look suspiciously like pogs), a USB cable, and a stand for the tags.
It seems that, thanks to collective consciousness (or the relative novelty of applying RFID tech to music players), a few other designers and firms have been developing their own RFID devices. You can check out IDEO's retro (whoa! Cassettes! Turntables!) player here. Or this guy's squeezebox here.
You can also check out Jordi Parra's blog for a stroll through the product's development.
Source: Spanish Design Student Creates Sleek New Spotify Gadget
On Friday the WSJ published an article entitled "Apple's Jobs Calls Shots From Home" which depicted the Apple CEO as still having a generous hand in the day to day going ons of the company despite being on medical leave. Jobs involvement comes as no surprise, as Jobs himself said in the statement announcing his absence, "I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company."
Along with proof that Jobs has kept his word, the WSJ has somehow tapped into the motherlode of people familiar with Apple this week, publishing reports on multiple product developments, from the existence of a cheaper iPhone nano, to the possibility of MobileMe being available for free as well as the chance it might be turned into cloud-based storage for iTunes media. The WSJ also hints that Steve Jobs has returned to campus specifically to focus on these and other upcoming projects, including the new iPad.
As speculation as to what the reported Jobs appearances may mean nears fever pitch, we have confirmed that he indeed has been making the rounds, and that he isn't on campus for any one reason according to a source. In any case, the sight of Jobs returning to work instills hope at both Cupertino and beyond. On Friday, the same day as the WSJ story, I received the following email from an Apple employee, with their take on what their former CEO's reappearance may mean.
The note was so eloquent and timeless it bears republishing here.
Double rainbows, and what they mean
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things."
—Apple Think Different ad campaign
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as Interim CEO, he worked with Chiat Day to create an ad campaign to answer: "Who is Apple, and what is it we stand for? Where do fit in this world?" The Think Different campaign featured Jobs's personal heroes: Einstein, Gandhi, Picasso, and others. Yet looking at the campaign today, it feels like it applies as much to Steve Jobs himself as it does to the people he featured.
For that reason, when Steve Jobs sent an email on January 17 of this year to Apple employees announcing that he was taking an indefinite medical leave of absence, there was a sadness that, perhaps, the tech community had limited time to spend with someone who, like him or hate him, was "crazy enough to think he could change the world".
While the financial markets didn't reflect a sense of panic or sorrow (Apple's stock price is higher today than when the news was announced on January 17) many people in Silicon Valley felt that the indefinite leave implied that Steve Jobs was moving out of day to day work and essentially retiring from Apple, never to return.
It was, therefore, a bit of a surprise when reports began surfacing that Steve Jobs was spotted back on Apple's campus only 2 weeks after his announcement. The Wall Street Journal ran a story on February 11 that not only was Steve Jobs "taking business meetings at home and on the phone" he had also "been seen on Apple's Cupertino campus". Reports have surfaced on other websites that Steve Jobs has in fact been on campus frequently, meeting with executives and having his lunch meetings in the cafeteria with SVP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive. For many who have seen Steve Jobs at Apple recently, this is a "double rainbow" moment: a mixture of awe, excitement, and confusion.
So what does it mean?
Financially, these reports will likely do little to move Apple's stock price, just as the original announcement had a muted response. But this isn't about stock price. It's also not about computers, phones, operating systems, App stores, or televisions. It's about community. And knowing that someone that has been a part of that community for decades is still there: browsing lunch options in the cafeteria, walking around with his coworkers and doing his best to contribute something meaningful.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary," Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.
It feels appropriate to take a moment now to reflect on those words, our community, and our time here.
The mobile market has had an unusually exciting past couple of weeks, with news of the Nokia and Microsoft partnership and HP launching a suite of devices based around its newly acquired webOs making headlines. But bold moves by competitors haven't shaken the market's faith in Apple, as our tipster and the WSJ point out, Apple stock has risen 2.4% to $356.85 a share since Jobs announced his leave and COO Tim Cook took over on January 17th.
As my colleague MG Siegler touched on, this market optimism is parallel to what happened during Jobs' six month leave in 2009. After an initial hit, Apple's stock price bounced back due to a series of product updates including iPhone OS 3, the iPhone 3GS, and OS X Snow Leopard. If we can glean anything from the stream of media reports in the past couple of days, history is at least trying to repeat itself.
Alluding to a popular Internet meme where a man expresses extreme amounts of emotion over the sighting of a double rainbow, our Apple tipster refers to a Jobs appearance as "double rainbow" moment: "a mixture of awe, excitement, and confusion." And whether we're reading about it in an article or seeing Jobs himself unexpectedly lunching in the cafeteria, we're all still left asking "What does it mean?"
Watch our own version of an Apple "double rainbow" moment or read more about Apple's 2011 product vision here.
Image: GigaOm
Source: Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Double Rainbow


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Salesian High's Jabari Bird, Deer Valley's Marcus Lee and Bishop O'Dowd's Oderah Chidom will all represent the East Bay in Chicago on April 3 at the McDonald's All-American Game.
Bird and Lee will play for the West squad in the boys game and Chidom will play on the girls West team.
It's the first time the area has sent multiple boys players to the nation's most prestigious all-star game that dates to 1978. There have only been six local boys players total in the previous 35 years.
Archbishop Mitty-San Jose's Aaron Gordon gives the Bay Area a total of three participants in this year's boys game.
"It's really cool," Bird said. "It shows how much talent we have in Northern Calfornia. All three of us want to go out there and put on a show."
Bird, a 6-foot-6 guard who is rated the No. 19 senior in the country by ESPN, led Salesian to the California Interscholastic Federation Division IV state title last year. He will play at Cal next season.
"I'm looking forward to playing against everybody," Bird said. "Just go compete and have fun."
The Kentucky-bound Lee is a 6-9 forward who ESPN ranks the No. 18 senior in the nation.
There hasn't been a boys player from a Bay Area high school selected since Oakland Tech's Leon Powe in 2003. Brandon Ashley, a former Bishop O'Dowd player who transferred to Findlay Prep-Henderson (Nev.), before his senior season, was selected last year.
The 6-foot-4 Chidom, who has signed with Duke, is the first East Bay girls basketball player to be selected since Pinole Valley's DeNesha Stallworth was picked in 2009. Stallworth is now a starter at Kentucky after she transferred from Cal two years ago.
Chidom, ranked among the top 10 players in the country for the class of 2013, has led the Dragons to a 22-3 record this season.
Last summer she played for the under-17 national team at the FIBA World Championships in Amsterdam. She'll be reunited with many of those teammates in Chicago.
Chidom is one of three players from the West roster that have signed with Duke, along with Kendall Cooper and Rebecca Greenwell.
Earlier this month, Chidom was selected to play in the WBCA All-American game that will be played April 6 in New Orleans.
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On any given day, DeSoto County Animal Services' staff can be found putting in the hours of hard work that are required to maintain the DeSoto County Animal Shelter. In between mopping floors and cleaning kennels, these dedicated individuals spend time working with each animal to ensure they are physically and socially prepared for their adoptions into permanent homes. The work done by staff members, as well as the enthusiastic support of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors are key reasons why the shelter has seen a steady increase in adopted animals since 2014. Shelter adoptions have risen from 637 in 2014 to 920 in 2016, and 513 pets have already been adopted in 2017. "We are proud of our shelter and our animal shelter staff," said District Two Supervisor Mark Gardner. "You couldn't find a better staff. They're always working hard to place the shelter's cats and dogs in a new home."
According to DeSoto County's Director of Animal Services, Monica Mock, operating a shelter is a team effort and each staff member must bring a mentality of hard work and creativity to the job. Last week, two Chihuahua puppies were surrendered to the DeSoto County Animal Shelter and the individuals who brought them to the shelter claimed that the mother dog was ignoring the puppies and refused to feed them. Unable to find another dog in the shelter who was willing to feed the two, newborn puppies, Animal Shelter Staff turned to an unlikely source. In a moment of innovation, the two puppies were added to the litter of three week old kittens, fed by a shelter cat named Sweet Pea. Hesitant at first, Sweet Pea adopted the two Chihuahua puppies as her own, ensuring they were fed and watching over them (Pictured Above).
"We want the public to know the lengths that our staff goes to to help the survival and adoptability of every animal that comes through the door," explained Director Monica Mock. "It would have been easy to say 'those dogs are unweaned, so they're not going to make it', but we didn't do that. We innovated," continued Director Mock.
Inside the shelter, dozens of kennels line the walls, containing dogs and cats that have been nursed back to health and prepared for adoption by the dedicated staff of the DeSoto County Animal Shelter. If you are looking to add a pet to your family, the DeSoto County Animal Shelter is asking that you open your home to a shelter pet. The Animal Shelter is located at 1251 Humane Way in Nesbit and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00AM to 5:00PM and Saturday from 8:00AM to 1:00PM. For more information, DeSoto County Animal Services can be contacted at 662-469-8004.
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Cara Delevingne told "You're some model tart" on TV set
Cara Delevingne had to battle to convince her co-stars she was more than a model when she began filming her TV debut.
The British stunner turns her hand to television acting for the first time in Sky Arts show Timeless, in which she stars alongside veteran English actress Sylvia Syms as a young woman married to a soldier.
However, Syms was ready to dismiss Delevingne as nothing more than a catwalk beauty before they met, and apparently made her views quickly known when they first spoke.
Delevingne says, "The first thing Sylvia said to me was, 'I hear you're some model tart'. It was the best moment ever, it was brilliant… As soon as we met she started putting me through my paces… She was testing me – I get that. I see people when I do things like this (thinking), 'You're just a model'. I'm fine with it, because I am ready to prove I'm more than that."
Syms' doubts were quickly dispelled, and the acting icon has even gone as far as to compare the model to Audrey Hepburn, saying, "Frankly, when I knew I was going to work with some… model I thought, 'Just a minute I spent 15 years on the board of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art'. (But) I literally fell in love with her the first day. The other girl I loved very much – she never got a decent break in England – her name was Audrey Hepburn."
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"Glenn Greenwald has become the conscience of America" Jeremy Scahill
"Thanks to Jeremy Scahill who is easily one of the worlds bravest and most important journalists" Glenn Greenwald
What did I write before? Oh yeah, shills cover for shills.
As I wrote the other day, it seems Glenn Greenwald is doing his part helping to demonize their manufactured hero, Edward Snowden. Glenn said that Snowden had more files, top secret files, that he spread around to various individuals in order to ensure his security, kind of like a whistleblower blackmail of sorts (same B.S. story told by Wikileaks to help explain why Assange was never arrested or whacked I suppose). He also said that Edward leaked certain classified materials to China in order to "ingratiate himself" to the Chinese.
But, Greenwald said, "if anything happens at all to Edward Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full archives."… daily beast
… "Whether I would have disclosed the specific IP addresses in China and Hong Kong the NSA is hacking, I don't think I would have," Greenwald said. "What motivated that leak though was a need to ingratiate himself to the people of Hong Kong and China."… daily beast
You might think it's an odd direction for a supporter of Edward Snowden to take, telling the public he's sucking up to our enemy and using top secret material to his own advantage, but that's the psyop at this point.
Well, it gets worse.
Today it's being reported that Glenn went to the Socialism Conference in Chicago of all places yesterday and announced he has some more "groundbreaking" leaks to drop on the world.
A screeching Sherry Wolf starts off the segment acting like a high school cheerleader at a pep-rally.
Jeromy Scahill introduced him. You have to be a special kind of idiot to still believe in the manufactured hero Jeromy Scahill at this late date.
Laughingly, Greenwald did his lecture via Skype.
Skype of course is listed as one of the companies spoon feeding all communications directly into the privatized intelligence industrial complex, according to Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald. Basically, Glenn might as well have invited the NSA to take a seat next to him on the stage.
Also interesting to note, since what they do is record everything and then IF you become suspect, they actively monitor your live communications and Glenn would certainly qualify for that attention at this point (remember, he did say his communication with his boyfriend was monitored just the other day)
So if Glenn knew the NSA would be listening and basically in control of his Skype chat at the SOCIALISM conference where he was going to make some new groundbreaking announcement of more of their secrets… why didn't they just turn off his chat?
Anyway, you know what his big announcement was? Glenn said that the NSA was scooping up billions of cell phone calls a day and storing them to listen to later if the need arises.
Greenwald indicated Friday night that he's sitting on several more — one of which he decided to talk about even though his story on it hasn't been published yet.
"It talks about a brand new technology that enables the national security agency to redirect into its own repositories one billion cell phone calls every single day. One billion cell phone calls every single day," he said.
"But what we're really talking about here is a localized system that prevents any form of electronic communication from taking place without its being stored and monitored by the National Security Agency," Greenwald continued. "It doesn't mean that they're listening to every call, it means they're storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any time, and it does mean that they're collecting millions upon millions upon millions of our phone and email records." Huffington Post
What? I'm sorry but isn't that the first "big story" that Edward Snowden supposedly broke weeks ago and wasn't that just rehashing of what William Binney told us… 5 years ago?
Glenn goes on to say that he is proud the Army is blocking the Guardian website at it's facilities across the world due to their coverage of the Snowden scandal. The lemmings in the crowd ate that up just like they were supposed to. It bought him some serious street cred apparently…
… but do remember, this "socialism" conference is being held in Chicago, the home and birthplace of neoliberalism, the Friedman School of Economics at the University of Chicago and of course the former stomping grounds of our President, not to mention the Chicago Stock Exchange.
Glenn was eating it up though, apparently oblivious to the fact that so many movements in our country are either packed with assets or run by them. He couldn't keep his joy from showing. He just loves to be the hero in the spotlight and it shows.
The fact that he's doing this as the Socialism conference shouldn't go unnoticed.
It will play right into the demonizing of whistleblowers and those who publish their leaks, especially after Glenn told the world that Snowden was ingratiating himself to the Chinese just a few short days ago.
The video is hard too watch. While Scahill is calling Greenwald the next best thing to sliced bread in his intro, you can see a little image of Greenwald self-conscientiously fixing his hair and getting pumped up for his little love-fest.
But take it for what it's worth.. here it is, in all it's made for TV glory.
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A Tennessee woman named Shona Carter-Brooks is under fire for attaching her newborn baby to the train of her wedding dress, and dragging the little one down the aisle.
According to BuzzFeed, many were outraged and said Carter-Brooks should be reported to child protective services. But the bride defended her actions, saying her one-month-old daughter was "awake and well-secured" and "covered in Christ."
Read the bride's full response to her critics, which she posted via Facebook, below:
"People questioning what we do, commenting all negative, and just doing the most. We good though we covered by the Blood which never loose its power. So to the media, radio, news, and whomever else wanting to talk about what WE do here you go: Media Media I see how it works regardless the situation or purpose people gone have something negative to say! The answer is we do what we want when we want long as Jesus on our side everything worked out fine and gone continue to be fine. Our 1 month old was awake and well secured on my train. Most important while yall got ya feelings in us we had our hearts in Christ which covers all!! So keep ya mouths running for it was just that Exclusive and Epic enough we made top blog way from small town Ripley, TN and the social media doing what they do, TALK!!!!"
It's true that a woman is free to do what she wants on her wedding day, but this seems like something extremely unsafe for the child. Also, we understand that you want your child to be part of your special day, but why not just carry her securely in your arms as you walk down the aisle?
But as they saying goes, to each his own.
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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by TitanJeff, Sep 7, 2012.
Its a nice 50 degrees this morning in cashville.
A tad on the nippily side this morning. Very nice.
if Belichek decides to run the score up again, i really hope that one of his key players get injured as a lesson to him....
4 hours!
C'mon bro.
Anyone pm me a way to watch the game? stuck with the texan game here in texas...
edit: thanks guys.
NFL Sunday Ticket on Directtv. Its free today ( I think ). Channel 712
Not a team I hate more than the dang Patriots! (Florida and Alabama included)
1 1/2 hours!
Pats fans saying their starters will be benched by the 4th Q to rest up.
1 mo hour and some change. Hell yeah. Ready for some Titans ball.


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Tracking A World Of ChangeRobert J. Dowling
The world economy is more out of whack than at any time in a generation. The Pacific nations of the future now look like countries of the past. Hot money from Asia, and money from the region's old families, helps drive U.S. stock and bond prices, giving Americans an unwarranted sense of invincibility. Europe's movement toward a single currency has triggered its own business and financial boomlet--and given the Continent, too, a sense that it is impervious to distant shocks.
Yet for the vulnerable, Asia's quake has been devastating. Last year's emerging-market models--Latin America, Central Europe, and Russia--are suddenly being repackaged as developing nations again. The label reads: Beware. There's even talk of a new North-South divide--rich nations amassing wealth, poor ones living behind tariffs and viselike exchange controls. Again!
If globalization stands for anything, it certainly is not this. In our view, globalization has always been about expanding wealth, not reallocating it. What, you might ask, is going on?
There's no doubt that the world economy is under more strain than it has been since the oil shocks of the 1970s. But look even slightly below the surface, and what seems like fragmentation is more certainly stress cracks from dynamic, radical change. The driving forces of revitalization--international markets coupled with highly efficient technology--are more at work than ever.
Take two reports in this issue from places as dissimilar as Asia and France. Our Special Report, "The Stars of Asia," highlights leading reformers already well into creating a new regional economy. Nation builders such as China's Zhu Rongi and political reformers like Korea's Kim Dae Jung are of course everyone's choice. But how many people know India's N.R. Narayana Murthy and Tokyo's Kenji Eno, gritty entrepreneurs who drive grass roots change? They are now Asia's best hope.
In "France: A Quiet Revolution," we examine a more subtle but similar remake under way in Europe's most statist country. The French have been willing to pay a price for social harmony and the French way--to the point of shrinking the workweek to 35 hours and offering fat subsidies to state companies. But behind these crowd-pleasing handouts there's a dynamic shareholders' rights and high-tech entrepreneurial movement underway. Even leaders of government-employee unions are quietly caving in.
BUSINESS WEEK's writers find these stories because we share a common belief that technology and globalization are truly changing the world. Our "Asian Stars" team, led by Hong Kong Correspondent Mark L. Clifford and Asian Editor Sheri Prasso, spent three months evaluating players who could make a difference. New York Editors Frank Comes, Christopher Power, Duane Anderson, and Pete Engardio aided the search while Photo Editor Michael Hirsch and Art Director Jay Petrow designed this special.
Paris Bureau Chief Gail Edmondson and Europe Editor Joan Warner, working with European Edition Editor Rose Brady and Art Director Chris Silver, designed our French cover after watching the way Socialist government mandates didn't seem to stick. "It's really misleading to paint the good-guy entrepreneur against the evil statist forces," says Gail. "The government is not against reform, but it has to move very strategically, very carefully."
Careful, informed reporting about a world whose chaotic parts may not be so dissimilar after all.
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In some organizations, the very mention of customer relationship management (CRM) software can invoke feelings of fear within the ranks. Many salespeople have enough uncertainty in their professional lives with the sales process itself. Asking the sales force to add another element of uncertainty is akin to asking a person to convert to a different religion. After all, the way salespeople go through their processes for originating and closing deals has been developed and refined and refined again. Yet, this conversion needs to take place if an organization is to remain competitive and flexible in a rapidly changing market. Understanding the reasons why many people resist or fear CRM systems is the first step in alleviating this problem; then, the company can develop systematic incentivizing steps to meet and overcome each point of contention. Most of the time, two issues that frequently occur in organizations that have difficulty gaining sales force buy-in are lack of information and lack of incentives.
Selling the Sales Force
Salespeople invariably present a product or service to a customer in a way that shows how it will benefit that customer. In the same way, the company should be touting the benefits of a CRM system to the sales force. This value-building exercise is the first step in gaining interest and allows salespeople to internalize the benefits for themselves. When the sales force has a good understanding of how the new CRM system will be beneficial to their bottom line, the company can begin the practical step of training its personnel to use the system.
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A company's sales force is likely made up of people from different generations, all with varying skill levels when it comes to using technology. Some may have had no computer training and will require a more fundamental approach. For others, training on a new CRM system will come easily. For the company, it's important to recognize that a one-size-fits-all training regimen may be insufficient. Too little, and the company risks driving the sales force deeper into resistance; too much, and the company spends unnecessary time and money. The solution is simple: interview the members of the organization to assess their levels of competence, and train them in groups according to those levels. When every member of the sales force can use the CRM system without help, the training has been successful.
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A company should take steps to eliminate any practices that don't use the new CRM system. For example, if a company generates sales leads from a call center and faxes those leads to the sales team every day, the company should eliminate that practice. Instead, the only place where users can access new leads is the CRM system. Any process the sales force used before the new CRM system had been rolled out should be eliminated as early as possible to ensure that the sales team has no other option but to use the new system.
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The Piece introduces us to two struggling actresses; the self-important (and possibly alcoholic) Blanche and her downtrodden friend (and temporary lodger), Dawn. Desperate to retain the limelight following the closing night of their show, Blanche convinces Dawn to join her in writing their own 'piece'.
The story is essentially a role reversal through manipulation; from Blanche's self-righteous monologues at the beginning of the play to Dawn's physical imprisonment of them both towards the end. Terry Hughes' dialogue gives these two very distinct characters much to work with; both actresses have presence on stage and while Blanche's (Julia Nelson) melodramatic manner is particularly funny, Dawn (Michelle Hughes) holds her own even in the early scenes before her character really finds her voice.
However, there is something that doesn't quite ring true in the sudden switch of power between the characters, signalled by a rather slapstick fight which seems to undermine the significance of the event. Blanche's breakdown feels too intense, too soon, and perhaps sticking with verbal, rather than physical, sparring may have built enough tension to make this a little more successful.
Overall, this is an enjoyable piece of theatre and certainly worth the admission price but it feels like a play with a message you have to work a little too hard to find.
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So, this isn't an oilpainting? This seems to be a reuccuring problem.
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A counterfeit semiconductor is a "ticking time bomb"
One of the bright spots in recent export activity has been the surge in demand for U.S.-manufactured microchips. But there's a sinister threat lurking in the supply chain to disrupt this trend.
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One of the bright spots in recent export activity has been the surge in demand for U.S.-manufactured microchips. But there's a sinister threat lurking in the supply chain to disrupt this trend.
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that SIA President, Brian Toohey testified on behalf of the industry before the Senate Armed Services Committee to aide in their investigation into counterfeit electronic parts in the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain.
Counterfeit electronics, and the semiconductors they are built on, are a growing threat to the health and safety of military and civilians alike. This is especially true as microelectronics are found in an increasing number of mission-critical applications such as lifesaving medical devices, automotive safety systems, airplanes and the tools, systems, and communications equipment that the United States military relies on today.
"The catastrophic failure risk inherently found in counterfeit semiconductors places our citizens and military personnel in unreasonable peril. A counterfeit semiconductor is a ticking time bomb," said Brian Toohey, president, Semiconductor Industry Association. "What is more, counterfeiters violate American companies' intellectual property rights and cost American's jobs. We estimate that counterfeiting costs U.S.-based semiconductor companies more than $7.5 billion each year."
The presence of counterfeit electronics in the DOD supply chain is a multi-faceted problem which requires a multi-pronged approach with a coordinated effort from both industry and government. There are five actions that the SIA has recommended to the Committee to effectively stem the tide of counterfeit electronics:
*Support and continue partnerships between industry and the DOD and Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop a more robust and effective authentication system;
*Strengthen procurement procedures at DOD for mission-critical components, including purchasing exclusively from authorized distributors;
*Ensure industry's ability to fully partner with Customs and Border Patrol Officials to stop suspected counterfeits at the border by ending CBP's redaction policy;
*Aggressively prosecute counterfeit traffickers; and finally,
*Stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights internationally.
Air cargo shippers must surely agree with the final statement made by Toohey:
"Our industry takes this threat very seriously and we are committed to doing everything within our power to work with the DOD and other government agencies to stop counterfeits from entering the U.S. and our military and civilian supply chains."
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