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Here are some interesting statistics concerning how social media will affect the November 6, 2012 United States presidential election.
Social media can be used to provide a counterbalance to the two-party system lock on elections in the United States, whether it be the promotion of a third party candidate or a vote for "None of the above," as some jurisdictions effectively allow by declining your ballot.
I have achieved successful outreach through various social media for my blog and radio program, and I have found that prominent personalities are more apt to respond through sites like Twitter and Facebook where the exchanges can be publicly seen, than through private email.
Consider, additionally, smaller social media sites, which are less apt to be controlled with content filters and more strict account restrictions, in the case that you have an important message to get out that may not be popular for most readers.
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Our little chef is prepping for a cook-down in STL. Fun with the KU apron; will need to update at some point with Cory's cape pic.
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Project 366: Day 81, 03-21 Pumped Up Kicks
Project 366: Day 80, 03-20 Fro Yo
It was a beautiful day, yet an extremely stressful one. So, Rubin suggested a little walk down to Forever Yogurt (aka, my heaven).
Here's my mis-mosh:
Project 366: Day 79, 03-19 Sunrise
Project 366: Day 78, 03-18 WOW
Project 366: Day 77, 03-17 St. P's
Project 366: Day 76, 03-16 KU v. Who
Project 366: Day 75, 03-15 Iowa 80
The Iowa 80, world's largest truck stop!
It's a tradition for us to stop at this magnificent attraction on our way to Nebraska, but Cory usually is in too big of a hurry to soak in everything it has to offer. But, that's OK. As long as I leave with a Frosty or Blizzard, I'm happy.


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As you all *should* know, during the Hans most critical moment, many loyal followers rose up to quell the rebellions. The upholders of the Han were few, and mostly weak and without any means of purging the rebels from China.
Personally, I find the loyalists weak and pitiful, and they should have given up before they started. During Dong Zhuo's time, he put a child on the imperial seat and made a puppet out of him. The mandate of the Han was almost completely gone by this time.
One such example is Liu Bei, loyalist or traitor? What are your thoughts?


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Gun rights rally to break century-long Alamo tradition
McALLEN, Texas – This is how to make another gun rally in gun-friendly Texas stand out: Tell everybody to bring their rifles and shotguns to the Alamo, the state's most popular attraction, which sits downtown in the country's seventh-largest city. And be sure to invite the state's gun-friendliest politician, who also happens to hold the keys to the historic site.
When the organizers of "Come and Take It San Antonio!" made plans for a display of long guns today, this setting seemed ideal but the event is now drawing attention for breaking a century-long tradition against public demonstrations at the shrine of Texas liberty, where Col. William Travis and 200 Texas defenders famously died in a siege with the Mexican army in 1836. Such public displays have usually been relegated to an adjacent plaza.
Some are asking whether a pro-gun group has gone too far in extolling firearms rights, a feat considered near impossible in Texas. And whether a politician may have been too willing to accommodate them.
"We certainly consider the Alamo our family cemetery," said Lee Spencer White, president of the Alamo Defenders' Descendants Association. "Our guys died there and we take it very seriously."
Inside the weathered stone mission church where the Texans made their last stand, "You instantly become reverent," she said. "You feel the sacrifice and the emotions of those who died there. You can't help but leave feeling moved and changed forever."
But rally organizers say the site fits their cause, protesting a San Antonio local ordinance they say impinges on firearms rights.
"We're doing this to show that we're not going to back down," said Victoria Montgomery, a spokeswoman for Open Carry Texas, one of the groups behind the event.
The gun groups organized the rally after a confrontation with San Antonio police two months ago. Police threatened to arrest several activists who were carrying their rifles outside a Starbucks.
Texas law prohibits open carrying of handguns but has no similar restriction for long guns. The Texas penal code, however, does bar display of a "deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm." A San Antonio ordinance restricts firearms in public parks or at political rallies.
"We are going to fight for our rights, and it's not OK for police to just say whatever they want and make up the rules as they go along," said Montgomery.
In late September, the gun rights groups got permission to use the Alamo from the Texas Land Commission.
The four-acre historical site downtown includes the small mission church, whose foundation was laid by the Spanish in 1744, other surviving buildings and artifacts including Davy Crockett's desk. About 2.5 million people visit every year.
From 1905 to 2011, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas organization kept the church sacrosanct from events deemed inappropriate. But the state took control after allegations of mismanagement by the Daughters. The decision on the long gun protest rested with Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who as a legislator was known for carrying a pistol in his boot. The Marine veteran is running for lieutenant governor largely on a single-barrel platform of gun rights.
Patterson acknowledged his office had not developed rules on use of the mission. But he said he doesn't think the restrictions should be extensive.
"Citizens who want to gather and exercise their First Amendment rights, who behave in a lawful manner, I'm not sure we have the lawful authority to say no, even if we wanted to," he said Wednesday.
As for the long gun rally, Patterson, who as a senator wrote the state's concealed handgun law, says he plans to explain to San Antonio city attorney afterward that the city's ordinance is unconstitutional.
San Antonio officials disagree but say they anticipate no problems Saturday. "We are expecting it to be a peaceful gathering and within the limits of the law," Police Chief William McManus said in an emailed statement.
Not all Alamo devotees object to the gun extravaganza. Stephen Hardin, a professor of history at McMurry University in Abilene, who has written extensively on the Alamo and spoke recently at a symposium sponsored by Patterson's office, said the site is a natural rallying place.
"Free speech was one of the rights the defenders fought and died for," Hardin wrote in an email. "Can you think of a better place for Texans to exercise their rights?"
But White, a descendant of George C. Jennings, who manned a cannon in the siege against Mexican General Santa Anna's forces, sees this as an ominous step.
"You're setting a precedent here," she said. "Today it's a gun rally. What is it going to be next month, next year?"


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PHILADELPHIA - An attorney for kids-for-cash judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. told a three-judge panel from the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that the former Luzerne County judge deserves a new trial because of anti-defense bias by the federal judge who presided over his racketeering trial.
Ciavarella was found guilty of placing juveniles in two for-profit detention centers as part of conspiracy that earned him and another judge $2.8 million in kickbacks.
He is seeking a new trial based largely on arguments that the judge in his 2011 trial, U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, made statements prejudicial to the defense in the news media and in written responses to outraged letters from the public about the high-profile case.
In oral arguments Wednesday, defense attorney Al Flora Jr. noted that Kosik wrote he was in "complete sympathy" with one of the letter writers who was critical of Ciavarella.
Flora said he was encouraged by the questions asked by the three judges on the panel during the one-hour session, which also featured argument from Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Zubrod, the lead prosecutor in Ciavarella's case.
"It really centered on the role of the trial judge and how the Code of Judicial Ethics comes into play - what a judge can say and what a judge can't say," Flora said. "But sometimes you can't gauge how judges are going to rule by the questions they ask."
During arguments Wednesday, Third Circuit Judge Marjorie Rendell said the case is "very tough" because it involves "judges judging judges who are judging judges."
"There's no doubt that he should not have done what he did," Rendell said of Kosik. "(But) we have to look at the overall context and see if injustice occurred here."
Ciavarella, who is serving 28 years in a federal prison in Illinois, did not attend Wednesday's court session. Flora said he spoke to him by phone Tuesday.
"He's obviously very concerned because a lot is riding on this," Flora said. "When you get into appeals court, you never know what's going to happen. Having been a judge, he knows that better than the average person."
Prosecutors have maintained that Ciavarella's claims of bias on the part of Kosik are "overstated" and that Kosik denied making statements about the case that were published in The Citizens' Voice.
Zubrod told the panel Wednesday that Kosik gave Ciavarella less prison time than called for under federal sentencing guidelines, which could have justified a life sentence.
The state Supreme Court vacated Ciavarella's rulings in thousands of juvenile court cases, finding he denied juveniles the right to counsel, incarcerated them on minor charges and pressured juvenile probation officials to recommend incarceration over other penalties.
Ciavarella, 62, is seeking a new trial or resentencing on eight of the 12 counts on which he was convicted. He is not disputing his conviction on four tax counts, which account for three years of his prison term.
Ciavarella admitted on the stand at his trial that he did not pay taxes on his share of $2.1 million paid to him and former Luzerne County judge Michael T. Conahan by wealthy developer Robert K. Mericle, whose company built the juvenile detention centers. Ciavarella maintained he believed the Mericle payments were legitimate "finder's fees" for referring Mericle to the companies that hired him to build the centers.
Ciavarella testified he was unaware a former co-owner of the detention centers, Robert J. Powell, paid Conahan $770,000 and he believed any payments made by Powell were rent payments on a Florida condominium the judges owned through a company registered under their wives' names.
Conahan, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, is serving a 17½-year sentence. Powell, who testified against Ciavarella, is serving an 18-month sentence. Mericle, who was also a prosecution witness, is awaiting sentencing on a charge of failing to report a felony.


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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC 4 Utah)- 62 people are dead and dozens of others injured. Now, people from Kenya who live in Utah gathered for a prayer vigil Monday night at the state capitol for the victims and their families.
A brief moment of silence at the Utah State Capitol comes just hours after chaos and confusion at the hands of terrorists in a Kenyan mall ends.
"That is really devastating to us," said Kenya Musungu.
Amram Musungu saw his cousin being interviewed by CNN reporters after he fled the mass shooting.
"A cousin who just barely missed a bullet and his friend was killed. And that's all the information that I have," said Musungu.
Musungu called on Kenyans and supporters to gather in solidarity and to pray for the victims and their families. All of those who came to the prayer vigil knew it could've been them.
"It was fear and worry trying to see if all of my family is safe," said Mary Karanu.
Kenya Native Mary Karanu found out on Facebook her friend drove by the mall deciding not to stop just as terrorists took over the shopping center.
"She just barely missed it. She could have been caught up in that," said Karanu.
Utah Lt. Governor Bell stressed his concern for what he calls an attack on civilization as a meeting place and a central location for tourists. The same spot Mark Natt and his wife visited just last year.
"How wonderful the people are, how warm the people are, how they really enjoy life and enjoy each other," said Utah resident Mark Natt.
They're calling on everyone to bow their heads and send love and support to Kenya to combat terrorism.
"Because I think that's the whole point of this is to spread fear and make people afraid. Let's just stand in solidarity, support the Kenyans that are here, support the families," said Karanu.
The biggest ongoing problem for the Kenyan Utahns is that they haven't been able to reach their loved ones. Social media networking sites like Facebook have helped. But many people in Kenya have landline phones and when people in Utah have tried to call, they just get busy signals.


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CAMDEN, N.J. – The Yale lightweight crew team is making strides in the open four – a heavyweight event – at the 109th IRA Regatta. The Y150's finished second in their repechage to earn a spot in Saturday's grand final. The Bulldogs will now have three boats racing on Saturday with the open four in the grand final, the lightweight four in the grand final and the varsity eight with both heats and finals.
Racing in the first open four repechage at 9:30 a.m., the Yale lineup of Michael Buttrick, Chad Bailey, Joseph Hanlon, Drew Lawson and coxswain Wendy Lin put pressure on heavily favored Wisconsin to finish just over four seconds back from the Badgers, securing one of the top two spots to head to Saturday's grand final.
Open Four Repechage
The Bulldogs will put it all on the line at 8:45 a.m. Saturday morning as they take on Navy, Wisconsin, Harvard, Washington and Cornell in the open four grand final. Yale will be racing in lane 6.
The varsity eight will see some much-anticipated action Saturday with both the heats and finals of the event – all in the span of a few hours. In order to reach the grand final and have a shot at the national title, Yale must finish in the top three in its heat to be held at 7:33 a.m. on Saturday. The Bulldogs will race in lane 4 against Dartmouth (lane 3), Navy (lane 2) and Columbia (lane 5). Three crews will also advance from the 7:21 a.m. heat of Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Mercyhurst. Should Yale advance from its heat, the grand final will be held at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow.
In addition to the varsity eight, the Yale lightweights will field a crew in the new lightweight four event. Yale in lane 1 will line up next to Cornell (lane 2), Harvard (lane 3), Princeton (lane 4) and Navy (lane 5) in a final-only affair on Saturday at 8:21 a.m.
Full race results can be found here. Live video will continue Saturday morning at 7:00 a.m. here.
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers are balking at the "grand bargain" under consideration by President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner, dimming hopes that a deal can be reached this weekend to prevent the government from defaulting on August 2.
As aides meet in advance of the principals session on Sunday, Obama and Boehner are struggling to keep their respective parties in line.
The $4 trillion agreement, which appeared to be just over the horizon earlier this week, is now very much in doubt.
Obama and Boehner
Both leaders have reached the conclusion that a deal is necessary, and that bigger is better for the country and their personal political fortunes.
They also each acknowledge the other's political limitations, with Obama unable to accept a deal free of revenue increases, and Boehner having no choice but to oppose tax increases.
If their "grand bargain" were to pass, the two could claim historic victories in getting the nation's finances in order.
Cantor vs. Boehner
Conservative Republicans, led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), are using this Friday's grim job numbers to call for steep spending cuts without new revenues. Their position puts them at odds with Boehner, who has privately indicated to Obama he would accept up to $1 trillion in new revenues in exchange for cuts to entitlements.
In his public statements on the negotiations, Boehner has been careful to oppose tax increases (a no-go with his base) while making room for accepting new income — likely from ending corporate and other subsidies.
But Cantor says he would not agree to an agreement that includes the closing of tax loopholes, unless the changes are revenue neutral — removing their significance to the deal.
For Cantor, who has the loyalties of most of the GOP's class of 87 freshmen, standing up to Obama and Boehner on new revenues endears him to the party's conservative wing, thereby bringing him closer to his goal of one day occupying the Speaker's office.
Pelosi vs. Obama
Meanwhile House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D- CA) is leading the liberal charge against Obama's willingness to cut entitlements. Pelosi has repeatedly emphasized she would not support any deal including benefit cuts, which are necessary to reach Obama's deficit reduction target. "No. Medicare. Cuts," she said in a press conference Friday, hours after meeting with Obama to discuss the negotiations.
Pelosi has struggled to maintain the level of influence she had as Speaker before Republicans retook the House of Representatives in last year's landslide. Democrats will likely benefit politically in next year's elections if they stand firm on protecting entitlement benefits.
A "grand bargain" can still happen, even without their support
Obama and Boehner can still pass a sweeping deficit reduction deal, assuming they can muster enough support from both sides of the aisle to put together a majority in the House of Representatives. Already Pelosi's deputy, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), is reportedly open to entitlement cuts as part of a larger deal, and he would bring a sizeable number of moderate Democrats along to vote for the deal. Boehner's bloc of the House GOP caucus would bring nearly 100 votes to support a deal.
The path in the Senate is much clearer, with both Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) likely to back a grand proposal.
Obama and Boehner's pursuit of "bigness" — perhaps the most promising deal to raise the debt limit and lower the deficit — will come down to the next 36 hours.
Long-time Beltway observers put the prospects of a deal getting done at about 25 percent.


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Physics Ph.D. Candidate Zachary Robinson received the DOE's 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Award. Robinson was one of only 52 students nationwide selected for the award.
Robinson will be conducting research in ultrafast materials and chemical sciences at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico for DOE's Basic Energy Sciences program. At Los Alamos, he will be studying "exciton transport in nanocrystal films." Excitons consist of bound electron-hole pairs, and an understanding of their diffusion mechanisms is useful for next generation solar and LED industries, as well as interesting on a fundamental science level. He'll be studying exciton dynamics in nanocrystals on the femto and pico second timescales and observe how excitons move in real time.


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Let's imagine there's a person in this world who takes pictures of food.
Right, that's definitely easy to imagine.
Okay. Now let's take this idea one step further and assume that the person sometimes doesn't like crumbs in her (his) pictures and feels a strong need to remove them.
Oh yeah, that's a little weird. I agree. Maybe that person should see someone.
Well, I don't know whether a person like that exists.
I totally don't!
But if she (or he) hypothetically lived somewhere and had such bizarre things on her mind and so much time on her hands then this might be what she (or he) would do to get rid of the crumbs:
She (or he) would:
1. Open the picture in Photoshop.
2. In the Layers palette, click on the Background layer and then press Ctrl+J (Mac: Command+J) to create a duplicate layer. Leave this new layer selected (highlighted).
3. Choose the Healing Brush Tool from the left-hand Tool palette.
4. On the tool options bar, set the brush diameter to a suitable size – you need it to be big enough to cover the crumbs.
5. Choose a part of the picture without a crumb which is close to the spot with the crumb. This is done to get a similar color and texture to replace the crumb with. Alt+click (Mac: Option+click) on the crumb-less spot.
6. Move the circle over the crumb and click your mouse. This should place the sample right over the crumb.
Repeat this as often as needed.
Feel free to use this tool to replace any irregularities – crumbs, dust, wrinkles or people's heads.
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This page details changes since the relase of Version 3.0 of M-sim. Information about the changes is provided in case mistakes were made and to provide greater understanding of the simulator. As of 9/8/09, versions will use a version number instead of a date.
Upcoming: Release 3.0.15
Release 3.0.14: Feb 1st 2010
Release 3.0.13: Dec 8th 2009
New EIO version.
Dynamic Loading
Release 3.0.12: Oct 27th 2009
Various floating point issues fixed.
Removal of argc parameter in ld_load_prog (argv is already a vector and argc can be extracted from it).
Release 3.0.11: Oct 5th 2009
Rollback overhaul - Severe problems (update recommended)
Release 3.0.10: Sep 19th 2009
Rollback Fix - Severe problem (update recommended)
Fixed quote handling in .arg files
ioctl(TIOCISATTY) didn't work as expected and is now fixed.
Release 3.0.09: July 20th 2009
Store Conditional did not set its physical register to REG_WB nor set ready times for the result.
A file handler for both debugging as well as creating accurate and portable checkpoints.
Syscalls getgroups, mkdir, readlink, ioctl(winsize), ioctl(istty) are now supported. Kill is very partially supported.
Conditional Memory support is being added.
Issue_Inorder has been fixed.
Libexo is being removed from the simulator.
regs_t now supports input operator for replacing libexo (regs.[hc]).
mem_t now supports input operator for replacing libexo (memory.[hc]).
Tagset error has been corrected.
Redirection of stderr has been updated for a few potential redirection operators.
Incorrect single precision handling through the LDS instruction has been dealt with.
Fetch Cache Misses were not stopping the current fetch.
Release 3.0.08: June 16th 2009
Machine.def updates (RPCC, STQ_C, STL_C, Comments).
Loader issues related to gcc 4.3.2 support.
Rollback support for mt_fpcr (sim-outorder.c)
Rollback support for STQ_C and STL_C (sim-outorder.c)
F_TRAPs should (and have, but apparently this was lost) cause the ROB to drain before rename (sim-outorder.c)
Rollback can't rollback over a F_TRAP (see above, cmp.c, cmp.c)
regs_t now supports output operator (input pending) for replacing libexo (regs.[hc]).
mem_t now supports output operator (input pending) for replacing libexo (memory.[hc]).
Added minor setsysinfo and getsysinfo support (syscall.c).
Added support for fstat64 (syscall.c).
Added support for exit_group (syscall.c).
Fixed obreak (syscall.c).
Fixed uname, which also provides utsname (syscall.c).
Corrected incorrect == instead of != in mmap. Improved overall behavior but still not full support (syscall.c).
Release 3.0.07: May 12th 2009
Write Buffer emergency patch issued. Could get caught in an infinite loop trying to remove elements from an empty write buffer.
Release 3.0.06: May 5th 2009
Cache fixes made. Correction made to the usage of bus_free. A write buffer (from processor to first level cache) is now implemented per core - this resolves the bzip2 and gzip problem without having to use the "read data block" hack.
Release 3.0.05: April 24th 2009
Main.c now properly includes fstream (#include<fstream>).
Release 3.0.04: April 20th 2009
Num_Cores not being handled correctly through a config file has been fixed. Also, MAX_LINE_ARGS in options.c has been increased to handle the large number of options required for CMP.
Release 3.0.03: April 4th 2009
Options.c is updated to handle newly created config files from dumpconfig. Minor code adjustment.
Dram bug with accesses across two banks is fixed, other minor tweaks.
Cache access has been updated to return an unsigned long long, BOUND_POS is no longer needed.
Inflight Queues have been altered to no longer assume compiler eliding, this required const enforcing in the rob.h as well.
Issue Queue has been altered to no longer assume compiler eliding.
Optimizations done in sim-outorder.c.
Release 3.0.02: March 6th 2009
Added -max:cycles support - would be nice to avoid the check each cycle though.
Dram modeling support is now available - the default is the old chunk style method.
Memory bus width is now 4 bytes by default.
Release 3.0.01: February 12th 2009
mem_access_latency (defined in cmp.h) now takes 4 parameters (address, size, when, context_id) compared to just size. This is intended for DRAM access modeling. This affects cmp.c, cmp.h and sim-outorder.c
OSF_SYS_write is removed from machine.h and replaced in syscall.c
Optimization: When checking the LSQ for a store forward, the for loop was not used effectively.
Release 3.0.00: January 24th 2009
Trivial: Removed commented out lines from main.c
Trivial: Re-enabled fclose(outfile) in context desructor in smt.c - fixes ~1K mem leak
Bug 1: Fixed "issued inst not spec ready" for floating point insts (actually affected all, but only mattered in floating point cases)
Bug 2: Commit now looks at the correct list of remaining contexts.


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`With Edward Snowden on the run in Russia and reportedly threatening to unveil the entire "blueprint" for National Security Agency surveillance, there's probably as much terror in Silicon Valley as in Washington about what he might expose. The reaction so far from private industry about the part it has played in helping the government spy on Americans has ranged from outraged denial to total silence. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, he of the teen-nerd hoodie, said he'd never even heard of the kind of data-mining that the NSA leaker described—then fell quiet. Google cofounder Larry Page declared almost exactly the same thing; then he shut up, too. Especially for the libertarian geniuses of Silicon Valley, who take pride in their distance (both physically and philosophically) from Washington, the image-curdling idea that they might be secretly in bed with government spooks induced an even greater reluctance to talk, perhaps, than the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which conveniently forbids executives from revealing government requests for information.
But the sounds of silence from the tech and telecom sectors are drowning out a larger truth, one that some of Snowden's documents might well supply in much greater detail. For nearly 20 years, many of these companies—indeed most of America's biggest corporate sectors, from energy to finance to telecom to computers—have been doing the intelligence community's bidding, as America's spy and homeland-security agencies have bored their way into the nation's privately run digital and electronic infrastructure. Sometimes this has happened after initial resistance, and occasionally under penalty of law, but more often with willing and even eager cooperation. Indeed, the private tech sector effectively built the NSA's surveillance system, and got rich doing it.
Books have been written about President Eisenhower's famous farewell warning in 1961 about the "military-industrial complex," and what he described as its "unwarranted influence." But an even greater leviathan today, one that the public knows little about, is the "intelligence-industrial complex."
The saga of the private sector's involvement in the NSA's scheme for permanent mass surveillance is long, complex, and sometimes contentious. Often, in ways that appeared to apply indirect pressure on industry, the NSA has demanded, and received, approval authority—veto power, basically—over telecom mergers and the lifting of export controls on software. The tech industry, in more than a decade of working-group meetings, has hashed out an understanding with the intelligence community over greater NSA access to their systems, including the nation's major servers (although it is not yet clear to what degree the agency had direct access). "I never saw [the NSA] come and say, 'We'll do this if you do that,' " says Rebecca Gould, the former vice president for public policy at Dell. "But the National Security Agency always reached out to companies, bringing them in. There are working groups going on as we speak."
Indeed, the cooperation was usually "voluntary" in large part because companies couldn't afford to seem uncooperative, says another private-sector official who would speak about classified issues only on condition of anonymity. "The ways that pressure works in Washington are very subtle," he says. "No one's getting bribed, or punished outright. But it's the good little Indian that gets rewarded. And these companies needed the goodwill of the NSA and other agencies."
Jeffrey Smith, a former general counsel at the CIA, says, "Generally as the IT community matured in this country, a number of things happened. They all opened Washington offices … and they came to an understanding, after some initial arrogance, that they needed to deal with the government." The companies also came to understand that, in a very real way, they were now part of the nation's infrastructure, and they would need plenty of help from the government in securing it.
So for the tech and telecommunications industries, the relationship has always been a delicate balance of patriotism and public image, and a public-relations tightrope walk between getting along and appearing not to bend to the NSA's demands. "They have been, on the whole, cooperative," says Greg Garcia, who served as the Homeland Security Department's first Internet czar under President George W. Bush. "But at the same time, they are wary of being seen as instruments of the government."
That wariness continues. The tech companies appear to understand that by keeping the whole process of cooperation supersecret, they have jeopardized their reputations, and possibly violated the law. After the first stories about the NSA's "Prism" Internet surveillance program came out in The Guardian and The Washington Post in June, identifying some of the most recognizable names in American corporate culture—Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and AOL, among others—as having negotiated arrangements with government surveillance agencies, executives at some of these tech companies expressed surprise at the extent of the program. But on July 18, these same companies—among many others, including Reddit, Twitter, and Tumblr—sent a letter to President Obama and senior intelligence and oversight officials in the executive branch and Congress asking permission to make public the number of government requests for information about their users, as well as the number of individuals, accounts, or devices for which information is requested.
Company officials are also appealing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to let them tell their side of the tale. In some cases, they want to show they were ultracautious about what they let the government see. Yahoo, for example, is asking a judge to declassify information about Prism from a 2008 case, in which the company challenged the NSA's surveillance proposals but was overruled by the FISA court.
One of the more recent reports from The Guardian, which has had unique access to NSA documents because of the personal relationship between its correspondent Glenn Greenwald and Snowden, said Microsoft "has collaborated closely with U.S. intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption." The documents show, among other things, that Microsoft effectively helped the NSA bypass the company's own security features so the agency would be better able to intercept Web chats on the new Outlook.com portal.
In an interview with National Journal, former NSA Director Michael Hayden indirectly confirmed Microsoft's involvement. "This is a home game for us," Hayden says. "Are we not going to take advantage that so much of it goes through Redmond, Washington? Why would we not turn the most powerful telecommunications and computing management structure on the planet to our use?"
Most of this co-opting of the private sector has happened with the full-throated support of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, again behind closed doors. Today, Hayden says, the agency itself is all but indistinguishable from the private sector it has exploited. Its best technology is designed by the private sector—"There isn't a phone or computer at Fort Meade that the government owns," he says—and its surveillance systems are virtually interwoven with their products. The huge controversy over Snowden's employment by one of these private contractors, Booz Allen Hamilton, was just the barest tip of the iceberg, according to intelligence and industry officials. One by one, Hayden says, the NSA contracted with companies to "make them part of our team," as he puts it.
Among these contributing companies reportedly is Palantir Technologies, the Palo Alto, Calif., company that The New York Times and other news outlets have identified as a close associate of the NSA. Another is Eagle Alliance, a joint venture of Computer Sciences and Northrop Grumman that runs the NSA's IT program and describes itself on its website as "the Intelligence Community's premier Information Technology Managed Services provider." Because of these close relationships, no door revolves more quickly in Washington than the one between these companies and the intelligence community. Booz Allen's current vice chairman, Mike McConnell, was director of national intelligence in the George W. Bush administration and, before that, director of the NSA. The current director of national intelligence, James Clapper, is also a former Booz Allen executive.
The origins of the intelligence-industrial complex date back to World War II and a program called Shamrock, under which the NSA came to an agreement with ITT and other companies to collect outgoing telegrams and international cables. That secret program was exposed in the 1970s, in an earlier incarnation of the current scandal, and helped lead to the famous Church-Pike congressional hearings on intelligence abuses (which in turn led to the FISA law).
But the latest chapter in the saga, involving Silicon Valley, begins in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, when Hayden and other senior NSA officials, including his predecessor, Ken Minihan, were in a state of near-panic. Not only had the Soviet Union—the chief object of the NSA's spying, and its raison d'etre—disappeared from the map, but now the agency also realized that the main threat was going to be "super-empowered" individuals—terrorists—who might be talking on cell phones or computers anywhere on earth. Above all, these new bad guys were using private technology, rather than the sort of intra-government communications systems that the NSA used to monitor in the Soviet Union or China. Not by coincidence, during the Cold War, the NSA often had the biggest hand in designing its own detection equipment. "We were America's Information Age enterprise during America's Industrial Age. We had the habit of saying, 'If we need it, we're going to have to build it,' " Hayden says. "But in the outside world, there was a technological explosion in the two universes that had been at the birth of the agency almost uniquely ours: telecommunications and computers. The Internet began as a combination of those two—you could probably draw a good history as to what we did to create the American computing industry back in the '50s."
Yet once that computing industry took off in Silicon Valley, to be followed by the rise of Internet technology and "smart" phones, the NSA found itself left further and further behind, never to catch up. In a period of a decade or so, Hayden said, the agency went "from chasing the telecommunications structure of a slow-moving, technologically inferior, resource-poor nation-state—and we could do that pretty well—to chasing a communications structure in which an al-Qaida member can go into a storefront in Istanbul and buy for $100 a communications device that is absolutely cutting-edge." And he could then contact other terrorists in every country, particularly in the United States.
The NSA's early response was to try to barge its way back into the domestic-surveillance business with devices such as the "Clipper" chip, an encryption tool developed by the agency that it wanted telecommunications companies to adopt. Consumer-protection and computer-privacy groups howled in protest, and industry resisted the government telling it how to manage its technology. The idea was dropped after a few years in 1996.
Then, in the late 1990s, a furor erupted over export controls on software encryption. The NSA sought to bar exports of the best encryption technology, fearing what would happen if enemies got hold of it. As it had done with the Clipper chip, Silicon Valley countered that by holding the tech sector back, the government was hurting U.S. national security. It argued that the U.S. would fall far behind other nations in a critical industry unless those controls were lifted.
After months of battles, a quiet quid pro quo was struck, according to a former senior intelligence official: We'll let you export first-rank encryption, the government said, but we want to get a first look at what you're developing and a back door into it. A Clipper chip wasn't needed, after all, if the government was going to get access to servers and telecom data. "The way the encryption deal was worked out was that, in the end, controls were liberalized in various stages, in 1997, '98, and '99, and all of the liberalizations had a single bottom line: All products had to be reviewed by the NSA," says William Reinsch, who was undersecretary of Commerce during a critical period in the 1990s when the NSA was undergoing a dramatic decline from the chief innovator of America's spying technologies, and instead finding itself falling behind Silicon Valley and the telecom industry. "That review meant [NSA] got to look at them.… It was a source of considerable irritation to companies—not the basic fact of it but that NSA wanted to continue to do it for every product.
The NSA came to understand that it was better for them if the world was fully populated with technologies that they knew and understood." Especially if the agency had the consent of industry to penetrate those technologies. If industry refused, the NSA had the unique ability to both reward and punish, thanks to its implicit veto power over deals and exports, Reinsch says. Though the public didn't know it, the agency also became a major presence when the nation's telecom industry went through a revolution, moving from the Bell system to a flurry of start-ups and a blizzard of mergers. "The NSA's ability to access [telecommunications data] became a factor in all those telecom acquisitions," Reinsch says. It and other intelligence agencies "weighed in and said we want to review this transaction. We want to say no if we think it's a bad idea." The NSA rarely exercised that right, but its leverage was useful in co-opting the tech and telecom sectors into its plans.
Smith, the former CIA counsel, says there is a "direct lineage" between that era and today's secret Silicon Valley-aided surveillance programs. He adds that those early disputes led to the "maturing" of Silicon Valley hotshots who once looked down on government cooperation but then came to realize that they were major players with a responsibility for helping in national security affairs. "It was an understanding that they need to take their place at the table," he said.
Even so, the NSA fumbled its relationship with private technology early on. The most notorious example was the $1.2 billion "Trailblazer" program developed in the early-to-mid-2000s by SAIC and other companies, which led to the attempted prosecution of another whistle-blower, an NSA career employee, who sought to expose the program as a wasteful failure. "One of the things we tried to do with Trailblazer was to hire out a solution to our problems," Hayden says now. "It was kind of a moon shot." Afterward, Hayden says, "we began to do this in increments," still using the private sector. "It's the companies responding to your requests.... You look for a Palantir, and you make them part of our team. It was always the same objective; our phrase was 'V cubed': volume, variety, velocity."
After 9/11 especially, when the NSA was fiercely criticized in a 2002 joint report of the Senate and House Intelligence committees for its "failure to address modern communications technology aggressively" and its "cautious approach" to domestic intel-gathering, the process of courting the private sector really took off, and government-industry cooperation boomed. This is documented in a series of lobbying efforts in 2002, when a group of the top trade associations in America covering everything from chemicals to financial services urged the support of "legislation to ensure that the private sector can voluntarily share critical infrastructure threat and vulnerability information" with the intelligence community and DHS.
This often happened under the benign rubric of protecting America's "infrastructure," and in a post-9/11 atmosphere of patriotic cooperation. In November 2002, as part of the creation of the Homeland Security Department, Congress passed legislation to "promote the voluntary sharing of cybersecurity information between the private sector and government," as Bruce Heiman, then the head of Americans for Computer Privacy, described it at the time in a letter. Another letter sent to every senator on July 22, 2002, by these same industry groups described how much help the government needed. "Nearly 90 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure—physical and computer networks for production and delivery of energy, food, water, telecommunications, financial services, health care, chemicals, and other raw materials, essential products and services—are owned and controlled by the private sector," the letter said. "The new Department of Homeland Security and other agencies obviously need to know more about these facilities in order to evaluate threats and vulnerabilities, and take necessary actions. Thousands of companies want to help in this effort by sharing critical infrastructure threat and vulnerability information with the government."
The signers included the American Chemistry Council, the American Gas Association, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Society for Industrial Security, the Business Software Alliance, the Edison Electric Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Information Technology Association of America, the Internet Security Alliance, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Critically, the companies involved in such "incremental" cooperation often sought, in legislation, exemptions from the Freedom of Information Act for cybersecurity information shared with the government, so they would not have to reveal the extent of their cooperation and would be protected from liability. And they, of course, had their own worries about being the targets of terrorism. They needed the government as much as it needed them.
These moral issues—the balance that the intel community has tried to strike between surveillance needs and privacy concerns—have never been resolved, as illustrated by the intense public debate over whether Snowden is a whistle-blower or a traitor. "There were no privacy concerns in intercepting German communications to their submarines, or Russian microwave transmissions to missile bases," Hayden notes. "But I told Congress in 2002 that now all the data you want to go for is coexisting with your stuff. And the only way NSA succeeds is to get enough power to be able to reach that new data but with enough trust to know enough not to grab your stuff even though it's whizzing right by."
Based on polls, most Americans are willing to offer up that trust—or at least don't much care. And despite the furor over the Snowden revelations, with some in Congress threatening to revoke parts of the FISA law, there was little dissent by anyone involved in developing the system, whether industry or Congress, especially after 9/11. The fast-spinning door between the NSA and industry reflects that. After all its false starts, the NSA transformed itself from a dying Cold War-era dinosaur into the eyes and ears of the "surveillance state" largely by drafting private-sector companies with far more technical know-how.
Still, many of the toughest legal and ethical issues are unresolved. Companies still feel vulnerable to exposure because of FOIA or subject to expensive lawsuits because of their cooperation. (A number of lawsuits have already been filed by groups ranging from the left-of center American Civil Liberties Union to the right-wing Freedom Watch.) "The companies have got to operate in their shareholders' interest. Disclosing information to government opens you up to a lot of different vulnerabilities," says former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. "But the laws were written for a different time and era.… You had different technologies and strategies than you have today."
And when the Bush administration sought to go around FISA altogether and undertake warrantless surveillance in the early 2000s, some corporations began to get very nervous. One telecom company, U.S. West, even refused to comply, arguing that it needed legal immunity if it was going to cooperate. That was provided in an amended FISA law in 2008. Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who worked in the Carter White House when FISA was first enacted in 1978, describes the long process by which the original law grew more and more obsolete as information moved faster and was more dispersed in the age of terrorism. At the time she was rising to become ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee. "Back in the old days, Congress used to review FISA applications," she says, but gigabytes of data flowing on servers made that almost impossible.
Some intelligence experts believe one of the biggest problems about the extent of the government-industry surveillance program is that both government and industry have tried to keep it all secret for too long, rather than just being frank with the public about America's national security needs. "It might have been better if they'd shown a little ankle," says a former senior CIA official. Adds Harman, "I think the FISA opinions should be declassified to the extent they don't compromise sources and methods, and Congress should have a robust debate about whether the law and the way it works is too broad."
But the debate will almost certainly change little about the intelligence-industrial complex. The government has little choice but to continue enlisting industry cooperation in surveillance. That's because the dispersed nature of the threat remains largely the same, and, notwithstanding the image of a Big Brother-like NSA, the agency has still not caught up in data collection. "We're so analyst-poor in the nation in general that much of the data just sits there and nobody looks at it. There are massive gaps in our ability to actually analyze data," a former top NSA official says. Despite the aggressive and largely successful assault on "core al-Qaida" overseas, the Boston Marathon bombings in April demonstrated that the NSA can still miss a threat next door on any given day. "The end game here is that power has concentrated in the hands of a few people because of technology, and some people can do some pretty horrific things on their own, whether explosive devices, or chemicals, or biological agents," says the former official. "Who knows what it is? Everybody's walking around with these devastating weapons. How are you going to stop that? In the long term, there are going to be so many of these threats out there—crazies with enormous power in their hands."
John Arquilla, an intelligence expert at the Naval Postgraduate School, agrees that if the government is to keep up with unknown threats, it really has no choice but to undertake a permanent mass-surveillance program deploying the systems and technology of the private sector. "I think there's a realization that we're in a constant race between using big data to disrupt the terrorist networks before they become truly lethally armed, and terrorists with chemicals, bugs, or some kind of traditional capability," he says. Or as Hayden puts it, "If we weren't doing this, there would be holy hell to raise."


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What's New
Changes for 2009 are minor and include some new 17-inch wheel and tire options, an engine oil cooler added to the 4.3-liter V6, and a transmission oil cooler as standard on applications exceeding a 14,000 pound GCWR.
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The Express Van's passenger models received a major makeover last year, replacing the aged steering wheel, dash controls, window switches and message center. New fabrics for the seats complete the update. The big glass side panels make it easy to see what's around you, and their deep tint foils prying eyes.
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The Express Van 1500 Cargo Van comes standard with a 195-horsepower 4.3-liter V6 engine, while the Passenger Van has a 5.3-liter V8. Other notable features include air conditioning, four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes (ABS), StabiliTrak stability control (Passenger models), tire-pressure monitor, swing-out side doors, flat and convex dual side mirrors and eight-person seating.
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Options include all-wheel drive, a 5.3-liter V8 (standard on Passenger Vans and all-wheel-drive models), a 323-horsepower 6.0-liter V8, a 250-horsepower 6.6-liter turbo-diesel (2500 and 3500 models only) and a FlexFuel 5.3-liter V8. Other options include a Cold Climate Package, a Trailering Package, dual heated power mirrors, power windows, six-way power driver's seat, rear air conditioning, auxiliary transmission oil cooler and aluminum wheels.
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Pitching, defense form identity
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The Marion Warriors baseball team returns to action this spring with all but two players from a team that came within three outs of winning the 2012 regional championship and advancing to state. Cole Lewman and David Helmer are the only players who departed.
With 18 players on the team, head coach Roger Schroeder said he expects 12 or 13 players to contribute a lot.
"Whittling it down to nine is the hardest part," Schroeder said.
With so many returning players, the team's hallmarks will be much the same as last year: pitching and defense.
"If you can't pitch and you can't play defense, you can't win," Schroeder said.
Ethan Hett and Grif Case pitched the most innings for Marion last year and should continue to carry a lot of the pitching load. Jacob Harper and Austin Pedersen also pitched quite a bit in 2012. Schroeder said Pedersen sometimes had issues with placement of pitches, but he thinks he can improve this year.
Taylor Heidebrecht may gradually pitch more innings as he continues to fully recover from an injury sustained in football season.
With four games in a typical week, it's good to have a stock of five pitchers who can be counted on, Schroeder said. He said all of the pitchers can run the speed of their fastballs up, but none of them have such a great fastball that they can throw only fastballs to get batters out.
The defense backing up the pitchers is also solid, Schroeder said.
The Warriors' offense will have to continue to play small-ball effectively without many power hitters. Schroeder said the team has good gap hitters, but the team has only had six home runs in the past two seasons combined. To make up for the power shortage, the Warriors will need to run the bases aggressively but efficiently.
The Warriors have lost some practice time because of snow and rain early in the season.
"We may not hit our stride until the middle of April," Schroeder said. "But the weather affected everyone. We're not the only team in that boat."


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Saturday, September 12, 2009
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- Tinesha Sat Sep 12, 08:01:00 AM EDT
Wow - you are such an engineer - lol. I'm a computer engineer by day but am so not the "average" engineer but I definitely recognize the behavior patterns.
- Anonymous Sat Sep 12, 08:27:00 AM EDT
I really enjoyed what you wrote. I finished my MBA in '06 while completing my second book, "Mama's Lies-Daddy's Pain" and maintaining a Director level job in Corporate America - "time management" was essential.
I smiled when I read about your Gannt Chart (I hadn't seen that term since graduate school) because I should probably use one myself. Now that my publishing company has grown and I am now managing the careers of other authors, my own career, and arguing w/distributors and bookstores, I could use more organization.
You wrote a GREAT piece!! When I grow up I want to be as organized as you. :-)
Brian W. Smith
Hollygrove Publishing
- Cherlyn Michaels Sat Sep 12, 09:08:00 AM EDT
@Tinesha...lol. yes, to know one is to be one...lol. we are creative, but have a little nerdy side. you little engineer you...lol. :-)
@Brian...yeah, a lot of these tools i picked up early on and throughout my professional career, and in my MBA program too. i'm finding them to be quite useful in my writing career and future entrepreneuralship goals. :-)
- Rose Sat Sep 19, 12:27:00 AM EDT
Cheryln I can see you now doing your thing with all that organizing and putting the pieces together.
- Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts Fri Oct 02, 01:53:00 PM EDT
"Taking the tools of one world and applying it to the other can be like being ambidextrous: skillfully, and advantageously, using the skills of your day job to aid your creative side, and vice versa."
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. I do that all day and it really does give you a "leg up" depending on what field you're in.
Great post, Cherlyn!
- Anonymous Mon Dec 14, 01:49:00 PM EST
Hey are you a professional journalist? This article is very well written, as compared to most other blogs i saw today….
anyhow thanks for the good read!


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He may not want it to happen, but Kyle Waddell sees his high school athletic career coming to an end.
Just in the last week, the Bluffton High student has verbally accepted an offer to play college football and experienced his final senior night.
Waddell, who committed Saturday to play linebacker for Southeastern University's startup program, helped the Bluffton wrestling team defeat visiting Colleton County 61-12 in its final team match of the season Wednesday.
"I don't feel like I need to be leaving at all," he said. "I'm so used to this. ... This is my home. I'm a Bobcat."
Southeastern is an NAIA school in Lakeland, Fla., that will play its first season of football in 2014. This year's signing class will practice for a year before it plays its first game.
Waddell said he received an athletic and academic scholarship offer and intends to sign a national letter of intent Feb. 6.
The senior closed out his dual wrestling career Wednesday night with a second-period pin of Colleton's Roberto Rivera in a 182-pound match.
The Bobcats, who did not qualify for the state team tournament, will host the Beaufort County championships - an individual tournament - all day Saturday and compete in the region tournament Jan. 30. After that, they will wait two weeks before they can start to qualify for the state individual championships.
Bluffton got out to a 43-0 start against a Colleton team that forfeited three of the 13 matches.
Nick Stead (106 pounds), Eddie Salvador (120), Austin Farmer (145), Waddell, Edgar Prada (195) and Danny Hart (285) won by pin for the Bobcats. Collin Placke (138) and Michael Meyerink (160) won a pair of decisions.
The Cougars' Trequan Shaw pinned Harry Chirinos at 160 and Francisco Rivera pinned Andres Nava at 170.
It was the final home dual match for Salvador, Prada, Chirinos, Placke, Waddell and Farmer.
"I'm glad our seniors got to come out and put on a show," Bluffton coach John Hollman said.
Hollman said he expects the Bobcats, who are strong in the lower weights, to compete for the team title Saturday against the other county public school programs.
"All you need to say is 'Beaufort County tournament,' " he said. "It's against the guys in your backyard. Beaufort County is an exceptional county as far as wrestling goes in this state - a lot of reputable and successful programs. To win this county and have bragging rights in this county is a big deal."


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Garry's Mod is nearly as well known as the Steam physics engine that spawned it, and it's all thanks to this film by Robert Stonemen.
Blood-Sucking Parasite Named in Honor of Bob Marley—Umm, Thanks?
Marine biologist Paul Sikkel of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro recently discovered a new species of parasitic gnathiid that infects the skin of fish living amongst Caribbean coral reefs. So, since the second most known Jamaican cultural export is those guys from Cool Runnings, Sikkel decided to grace the memory of Marley with forever being associated with a blood-sucking parasite. "I named this species, which is truly a natural wonder, after Marley because of my respect and admiration for Marley's music," Sikkel said. "Plus, this species is as uniquely Caribbean, as was Marley." [Nothing To Do With Arbroath]
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HG UPDATE: For the most up-to-date supermarket list -- complete with a printable, grocery-shopping checklist -- check out our 2016 Supermarket List! It features HG's latest and greatest grocery-store finds, plus classic must-haves. You've gotta get these items in your shopping cart… It's our very latest aisle-by-aisle, guilt-free grocery list. Full of classic staples and brand-new finds, this list can help you stay on track in the New Year. Click here to download the handy checklist-style PDF version. Happy food shopping! (Pssst... This is not an all-inclusive list. Have a favorite we forgot? Send it in!)
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Rogier Spoor wrote:Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire?
xkcd wrote:At first, this sounds like a pretty easy question.
Why can't you "smoosh" light? Go from θOut to θIn and light is smooshed.
Also assuming the mirrors and lenses are lossless, wouldn't you be able to add the light from multiple different angles, using multiple mirrors and lenses, effectively creating a point source?
And an alternate option is LOTS of solar panels powering a bulb, or spark ignition source, but that is off topic.


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Following Arsenal's 4-0 embarrassment at the hands of AC Milan in the Champions League, GMF wondered if it was the worst performance of an English team in Champions League.
Arsene Wenger certainly thought it was the worst he had seen his Gunners side perform in European competition, but have they been bettered in the 'worst showing' stakes by other English teams?
GMF resolved itself to find five of the most dismal performances from English sides in the Champions League and bring them to you.
To end any confusion, the performance can be down to the brilliance of the opposition but it would have to have been truly great to eclipse another of Europe's top sides in the competition.
1) Liverpool 0-2 Benfica, March 8, 2006
The Merseysiders were defending champions that year after their heroics against Milan in Istanbul, but were unceremoniously dumped out by the Portuguese side.
A toothless display was punished by two stunning goals from Simao and Fabrizio Miccoli.
2) FC Basel 2-1 Manchester United, December 7, 2011
This result will still be fresh in Sir Alex Ferguson's mind as his side are forced to face Ajax in the Europa League.
The Red devils were wasteful with possession and chances for most of the game, so it was not a great surprise when Alexander Frei and Marco Streller capitalised on losses of concentration from United's defence and goalkeeper to send them out of the competition at the first hurdle.
3) Chelsea 1-1 Rosenborg, September 18, 2007
This was Jose Mourinho's last game in charge of the Blues and it was a dismal affair. The Norwegians took the lead midway through the second half and, although Chelsea did equalise through big money flop (familiar?) Andriy Shevchenko, the response was feeble.
The already bad atmosphere was compounded by the fact that Stamford Bridge was half-empty.
4) Real Madrid 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur, April 5, 2011
It may seem harsh to condemn Spurs in their first time playing at the illustrious Bernabeu, but this was after they had won 1-0 in Milan in the round before.
Peter Crouch set the tone for a calamitous display when he managed to pick up two silly bookings in the first 15 minutes, as Emmanuel Adebayor's brace helped the Spanish side trample over Harry Redknapp's side.
5) Spartak Moscow 4-1 Arsenal, November 28, 2000
Arsenal have never fared too well when playing behind the old iron curtain, but this was a display of exceptional haplessness.
The Gunners even took the lead through Brazilian left-back Sylvinho, but the sub-zero temperatures took their toll and the north Londoners whimpered to a thrashing at the hands of the Russians.
Now, before anybody begins to protest, GMF has chosen not to consider the most recent result in Milan, as we feel there is no fun in reminiscing about something that happened this week.
If there are any you think we missed and should have been there or you just want to give your verdict in our choices, leave a comment below and let us know.


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Thirteen Oldham County teachers are now part of the National Board Certification ranks, a certification process synonymous with great teaching.
While state teacher credentialing programs set the basic requirements to teach in each state, National Board Certified Teachers must demonstrate advanced teaching knowledge, skills and practices.
A voluntary assessment program designed to develop, retain and recognize accomplished teachers, and to embed ongoing school improvement in schools nationwide, National Board Certification is achieved through performance-based assessment and testing that takes one to three years to complete.
Completion of the certification process signifies that teachers have developed and demonstrated the skills required of an accomplished education professional.
Since 2000, 159 Oldham County Schools' teachers have achieved National Board Certification.
Oldham County Schools' newest National Board Certified Teachers include Jeremy Anderson, social studies – history/early adolescence, Crestwood; Kasey Anderson, literacy – reading-language arts/early and middle childhood, Goshen; Kristin Cantrell, English language arts/early adolescence, Crestwood; Emily Doyle, literacy – reading-language arts/early and middle childhood, Buckner; Amy James, science/adolescence and young adulthood, Crestwood; Katherine Nitzken, English language arts/adolescence and young adulthood, Crestwood; Joseph Percefull, mathematics/early adolescence, Buckner; Elizabeth PoPelka, mathematics/early adolescence, Crestwood; Kevin Puckett, literacy – reading-language arts/early and middle childhood, Buckner; Haley Reed, music/early adolescence through young adulthood, Crestwood; Kristin Schaefer, generalist/early childhood, Buckner; Deborah Sloan, generalist/middle childhood, Crestwood; and David Wallace, generalist/middle childhood, Prospect.
National Board Certification – the "gold standard" for teaching excellence – was celebrated Dec. 8 at a White House event heralding the newest class of 6,200 board certified teachers, which brings to nearly 100,000 the total number of board certified teachers in the U.S.
"National board certification is synonymous with great teaching. While our nation is focused on the need for the highest quality teachers, board certification truly is the gold standard," said Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and White House Domestic Policy Director Melody Barnes welcomed a group of the newly certified teachers to the White House Dec. 8 with remarks focused on how the National Board process can lead to improved instruction and enhanced leadership in the profession.
Thorpe referred to two recent studies showing that more than half (55 percent) of all board certified teachers work in high-need schools (according to the National Center for Education Statistics) and to a National Research Council report that found students who were taught by board certified teachers show higher gains on achievement tests than those taught by other teachers.
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If you are like millions of animal owners nationwide, your pet is an important member of your household. Unfortunately, animals are also affected by disaster.
The likelihood that you and your animals will survive an emergency such as a fire or flood, tornado or terrorist attack depends largely on emergency planning done today. Some of the things you can do to prepare for the unexpected, such as assembling an animal emergency supply kit and developing a pet care buddy system, are the same for any emergency. Whether you decide to stay put in an emergency or evacuate to a safer location, you will need to make plans in advance for your pets. Keep in mind that what's best for you is typically what's best for your animals.
If you evacuate your home, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR PETS BEHIND! Pets most likely cannot survive on their own and if by some remote chance they do, you may not be able to find them when you return.
If you are going to a public shelter, it is important to understand that animals may not be allowed inside. Plan in advance for shelter alternatives that will work for both you and your pets; consider loved ones or friends outside of your immediate area who would be willing to host you and your pets in an emergency.
Make a back-up emergency plan in case you can't care for your animals yourself. Develop a buddy system with neighbors, friends and relatives to make sure that someone is available to care for or evacuate your pets if you are unable to do so. Be prepared to improvise and use what you have on hand to make it on your own for at least three days, maybe longer.
Use the Pet Owners Brochure and the Pet Instructional Video to help you create an emergency plan and kit for your pet.
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Thousands of gay rights activists gathered in Washington Sunday, marching from the White House to the Capitol for the National Equality March. Many said they were looking for more than speeches from the White House.
"Last night, President Obama made that speech [at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner in Washington]. He had no intention of addressing our community and he took the bully pulpit, and he got up there, and he expressed very beautiful intentions," march organizer Sherry Wolf said. "It was a very beautiful speech. [But] what is he going to do? And when is he going to do it? That's the question."
Wolf said she's glad Obama felt the pressure to speak before the nation's largest gay rights group and "express his solidarity with our community," but "we want action."
"This is not a new movement. Our movement began in 1950.There are literally generations that have lived and died fighting for civil equality," said Wolf, the author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation.
"With a collapsing economy, two wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the fact remains that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are among the people losing our jobs. We are the ones who have crappy health care or none, and we are also fighting or dying in these wars. And we have no equal rights," she added.
As for Rep. Barney Frank -- the first openly gay member of Congress -- who stated Friday that the march is "a waste of time," Wolf says it's still important to march and advocate.
"He's a politician.. he doesn't have to worry about health care," she told Garvin.
According to Wolf, the equality movement has seen more progress in the past three months of organizing than they have in years, with a bill introducing same-sex marriage in the District being expected to easily pass and a proposed repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act on the table, as well as Obama's speech Saturday night.


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18 May, 2017 – During the press meet held this week at their headquarters in the city, Benjamin West said that their site ShoutAbout.org now offers full details about the best selling products as well as appliances for outdoors, homes and gardens.
ShoutAbout.org, the well known product review website has made an announcement that they now offer complete and honest reviews about various products, tools and appliances for garden and home, much to the delight of the home owners. This website has specific categories for home appliances, kitchen gadgets, tools for gardens, outdoors and pet supplies to help the online users refer to the appliances in their preferred area easily. The reviews offered are crisp and clear with complete details about the products and appliances to ensure it gives a perfect understanding about each when reading it.
To find such useful reviews, one can just click on the link at: http://www.shoutabout.org
The team of experts at ShoutAbout.org aim at offering complete details about the products that are the best selling products and give the reasons why it is popular by explaining their special features. They make sure that the reviews would give a better idea about the products to the buyers to guide them but a perfect product that lasts longer. They spread the word about the products that are worth the money buyers put in to help the homeowners make a well informed purchase decision. They focus on offering great reviews with straightforward opinions, no matter which type of product it is. They also give their personal opinions about the products, their quality and its practicality to inform the readers whether the products are worth the hype created by the manufacturer.
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