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Drug Crimes
The "War on Drugs" often appears to be a war on our citizens and on every right guaranteed by our State and Federal Constitutions. Drug offenses, including prescription drug law violations, are relentlessly pursued by law enforcement, targeted by prosecutors, and often harshly punished in our courts of law. The public is largely unaware, and jurors are actually shielded from, the harsh mandatory penalties imposed by our laws. "Trafficking" statutes impose lengthy mandatory prison sentences for the mere possession of otherwise lawful, prescription amounts of commonly prescribed drugs. From simple possession of drugs (including marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, Oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, opiates, LSD, extacy, mushrooms or some other substance), to sale, manufacturing and cultivation, your future may depend on the skills of your attorney to know the law, apply the law, investigate your case, and/or find alternatives to incarceration and permanent societal disability.
Given the large disconnect between the way our society legally views drugs and the actual availability and ubiquity of both recreational and therapeutic drugs, "justice" often depends on the experience and legal acumen of your legal representative. Early involvement of legal counsel is key and should occur from the very first contact a person has with law enforcement authorities. What you do not know can hurt you, as law enforcement is allowed to present false information in applying "investigative technique." Each attorney at DeThomasis and Buchanan, P.A. has more than twenty-five years practicing criminal defense in Gainesville, Florida, and is experienced in successfully defending drug allegations from simple possession or prescription fraud to trafficking in prohibited substances.
Marijuana Offenses, Possession, Delivery or Cultivation
Cannabis, also known as marijuana, pot or weed, is one of the most widely consumed illegal substances in the nation, including Florida. Unfortunately, the Florida Legislature has classified marijuana as a Schedule I drug, meaning the substance has "high potential for abuse and has no currently accepted medical use". See Florida Statute 893.03(1). Some of the most common marijuana offenses include misdemeanor marijuana possession, felony marijuana possession, marijuana trafficking and marijuana cultivation. Anyone convicted of a marijuana offense can face severe penalties, including jail or prison terms, court costs, fines, driver's license suspension, and a permanent criminal record.
Misdemeanor marijuana possession occurs when a person possesses less than 20 grams of any part of the cannabis plant, including seeds and stems. Possession includes both actual or constructive possession. Constructive possession means the person knows about the controlled substance and has the ability to control the substance, even though it may not be in the person's actual possession. A conviction for misdemeanor marijuana possession carries a maximum penalty of one year incarceration and a $1,000 fine. Felony possession of marijuana occurs when a person possesses 20 grams or more of marijuana, either through actual or constructive possession. A conviction for felony marijuana possession carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a $5,000 fine.
Cultivation of marijuana occurs if a person cultivates, produces or grows marijuana. The offense of cultivating any amount of marijuana less than 300 plants carries a maximum penalty of five years incarceration and a $5,000 fine. Trafficking in marijuana occurs if a person possesses, sells or distributes marijuana in excess of a twenty-five pound quantity or cultivates more than 300 cannabis plants. If a person possesses, sells or distributes between 25 and 2,000 pounds of marijuana or cultivates between 300 and 2,000 marijuana plants, they can sentenced up to thirty years in prison and must be sentenced to a mandatory minmum three years in prison and a $25,000 fine. If an individual possesses, sells or distributes over 2,000 pounds of marijuana or cultivates more than 2000 cannabis plants additional mandatory minimum penalties apply. See Florida Statute 893.135(1).
Collateral Consequences for Drug Convictions
In addition to incarceration and fines, convicted drug offenders can face serious collateral consequences, such as:
• A lifetime ban from possessing firearms for convicted felony drug offenders;
• Ineligibility to obtain certain professional licenses, permits or certifications;
• A driver's license suspension for up to two years;
• Ineligibility to work in certain Florida governmental occupations;
• Ineligibility to receive some educational scholarships and related financial aid;
• A ban from adopting or becoming a foster parent in Florida;
• A ban from renting or residing in public housing.
Student and Juvenile Drug Possession
Young people face special penalties if enrolled in pre-college or college level education. Some of those penalties are unrelated to the criminal penalties imposed and can include expulsion or exclusion from educational opportunities.
As parents, your concern for your child is both physical and developmental. Young people often make mistakes but those mistakes should not lead to a lifetime of work, educational, and social disenfranchisement. Our goal at DeThomasis and Buchanan is to resolve a drug arrest with the criminal consequences, medical, and long term life consequences in mind. Whether it is representation before educational authorities, or guidance toward treatment and sobriety options like Drug Court, the attorneys at DeThomasis and Buchanan can assist you in the defense and resolution of these matters. For more information about the University of Florida Student Disciplinary Process click here.
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New sheriff opens old murder cases
LeFlore County Sheriff Rob Seale has announced his intentions to open two unsolved murder cases from 2009.Jody Wilson, 23, of Wister, was found dead May 8, 2009 by a paraglider flying above the Runestone State Park. She was reported missing the following day by her husband Donald "Bo" Wilson. The cause and manner of Wilson's death has not been determined due to decomposition. The murder of Joe Neff, 62, in May 2009 has also remained unsolved. Neff, the owner / operator of the Long Branch Saloon located south of Poteau was reported missing May 14, 2009 after an employee arrived at the bar and found what appeared to be a crime scene. Three days later, Neff's body was found floating in a strip pit located near Pocola by a local fisherman. It was determined he had died from a gunshot wound. Both murders were investigated by the LeFlore County Sheriff's Department and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Seale plans to meet with the OSBI and discuss case information. He has assigned a criminal investigator to follow-up on leads and information regarding the murders.


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Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history's greatest leader was. But you could also imagine an old-school video game where Teddy Roosevelt and Josef Stalin—looking a lot like Nintendo's Mario—face off riding weaponized extinct giant lizards. Artist Jude Buffum has done the latter and we are all richer for it.
Buffum's work will appear alongside that of more than 40 other artists as part of "So You Created A Wormhole," a free time-travel-themed art show mounted by nerd culture collective I Am 8-Bit. The gallery show's happening to celebrate the publication of So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel by Phil Hornshaw & Nick Hurwitch.
Kotaku's scored some exclusive preview images before the show's Friday night opening in Los Angeles. Click the images to expand. Peruse the preview and you'll see clever creations where an El Camino gets the Doc Brown treatment, caveman commentary on modern life and more heads of state battle it out in the should-be-real Jurassic President video game.
Attendees will also get the chance to play Capy Games' hotly-anticipated Super Time Force while it's projected onto a screen that's 25 feet tall. There's also going to be a baby stroller with the power to become unstuck in spacetime. I could use one of those. However, I live in New York and cannot leave my lovely child to attend such an awesome and free event. But some of you can. And should. Find more info on I Am 8-Bit's website.
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Discover the majestic southern Yasawa Islands, Modriki and the beautiful Sacred Islands on a Blue Lagoon 3 night Explorer Cruise.
Discover the majestic southern Yasawa Islands, Modriki and the beautiful Sacred Islands on a Blue Lagoon 3 night Explorer Cruise.
Friday your 1st night - Modriki Island
Bula! Welcome aboard Blue Lagoon Cruises. Set sail on Fiji Princess from Port Denarau for the outer Mamanucas. The first overnight anchorage is in a gorgeous secluded location at Modriki Island. Have you seen the Tom Hanks' movie 'Cast Away'? Modriki's the island that stars in this block-buster! Cocktails and canapés are served while you enjoy the sunset. Enjoy the Captain's Welcome dinner – an a-la-carte menu served in the dining saloon with entertainment provided by our talented singing, dancing and guitar playing crew!
Anchorage MODRIKI ISLAND
Saturday your 2nd night - Soso Bay
There's time to step ashore and enjoy a swim or wander along the beach before or after breakfast. Sea conditions permitting, there is an opportunity to swim with sharks at a secret reef location enroute to our next destination. After lunch a visit to the chiefly village of Soso - an exceptional example of a current day Fijian island village. Following cocktail hour, enjoy a traditional Thali dinner featuring exquisite Indian dishes. This evening is an extravaganza of Bollywood dancing complete with Bollywood movies on the screen.
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Sunday is a day of rest in Fiji but after breakfast there's a very special opportunity to attend a village church service. Then we cruise south to the beautiful Naukacuvu and Narara Islands as you enjoy a traditional Sunday roast lunch. Also on board there's an opportunity to join the Chef for today's Fijian cooking lesson and make the traditional dish 'Kokoda'. Tonight's buffet has a range of dishes from Fiji along with a choice of European dishes. After dinner, choose to take part in Bingo 'Fiji style' or enjoy a quiet nightcap in the bar.
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Take an early morning snorkel, swim or kayak trip and enjoy a relaxing breakfast as we depart Naukacuvu Island and cruise to the most remote and beautiful island groups seen on your cruise. The Sacred Islands will take your breath away. After a buffet lunch onboard you'll say farewell to your friendly crew. Our high-speed catamaran will rendezvous at the Sacred Islands for your private transfer to Port Denarau.
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Bob Wylie, who worked last year with the Denver Broncos, is expected to join the Raiders 2011 coaching staff under Hue Jackson as an offensive line coach, according to a league source.
Wylie is a veteran of 30 years of coaching and last was season was the assistant offensive line coach under Clancy Barone on the staff of Josh McDaniels. In the Broncos' reorganization under John Fox, Barone was moved to tight ends coach with Dave Magazu coming in to coach the offensive line.
From 2007 through 2009, Wylie coached in the Canadian Football League, for the Winnepeg Blue Bombers in 2007 and 2008 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2009. The Montreal Gazette reported early this week the Roughriders were talking to Wylie about returning in 2011.
Wylie has coached primarily tight ends and the offensive line with the New York Jets (1990-91), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1992-95), Cincinnati Bengals (1997-98), Chicago Bears (1999-2003) and Arizona Cardinals (2004).
College stops included Brown (1980-82), Holy Cross (1983-84), Ohio (1985- 87), Colorado State (1988-89), Cincinnati 1996 and Syracuse (2005-06).
Steve Wisniewski, the Raiders' former Pro Bowl guard, was hired this week as the offensive line assistant.
The Raiders are also to finalizing a deal with Chuck Bresnahan as their linebackers coach, according to a league source.
Darren Perry, the Green Bay safeties coach, is on Oakland's radar as a possibility for defensive coordinator, and has also been reported as a potential candidate in Philadelphia. Although his name hasn't come up this year from what I've heard, another natural would be Packers linebackers coach Winston Moss, who has interviewed as a head coaching candidate with the Raiders in the past.
Candidates from the Packers and Steelers are off limits until after the Super Bowl, although it's not unusual for teams to gauge interest from agents for the prospective hires.


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Jungian Archetypes in 20th Century Women's Fiction: The Persona, the Shadow, the Animus, and the Self
Edwin Mellen Press, Jan 1, 2002 - Social Science - 292 pages
With this the beginning of the new millennium and in the aftermath of the many hundred-best lists of the outstanding contributions to culture in the past century, Dr. Cederstrom was struck with the difference between such lists as they would have been written at the turn of the century and those written of late. It is evident that best books, like the literary canon itself, has been forced to recognize women's achievements.
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A month after Hurricane Sandy crashed ashore, hundreds of Marylanders affected by the storm are still waiting for the federal government to provide funding for housing and living expenses.
Federal assistance has been flowing for weeks to families in hard-hit counties of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is still reviewing a formal request for aid that Gov. Martin O'Malley submitted to the White House on Nov. 8.
That has left hundreds of Eastern Shore residents affected by Sandy in Worcester, Dorchester and Somerset counties waiting for relief. About four dozen homes in those three counties were significantly damaged and hundreds more were affected, according to one federal assessment.
Overall, the storm has caused more than $27 million in damage statewide.
"These people are getting antsy," said Noah T. Bradshaw, the housing inspector for the city of Crisfield, who estimated that there are up to 350 homes in the city that were severely flooded. "Give us something down here to help some of these people rebuild."
Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City on Oct. 29, sparing Maryland the brunt of its heavy rain and wind. Still, portions of the Eastern Shore experienced major flooding. As much as 30 inches of snow fell in Western Maryland. At the peak of power outages, about 365,000 homes were dark.
Days later, O'Malley formally requested federal assistance, writing that the storm was of such magnitude that "effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and local governments." He specifically requested assistance for people living in Worcester, Dorchester and Somerset counties.
Following a review by FEMA, President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for Maryland on Nov. 20. That formal designation addressed part of the governor's request, allowing state and local governments to recoup costs needed to repair public facilities, such as roads and parks.
But the White House has yet to make a determination about individual assistance, which allows residents affected by the storm to apply directly to the federal government to help pay for temporary housing, to repair or replace homes and for other expenses, such as vehicle damage.
"We have a lot of individuals who will need it," said Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican who represents the Eastern Shore. "It's unclear whether the state's going to be able to provide [help] without federal individual assistance."
"We certainly understand that gathering the correct information and reviewing that information for an event like Hurricane Sandy can take some time," said Maryland Emergency Management Agency spokesman Edward J. McDonough. "But we also understand that some folks in Maryland — especially on the lower Eastern Shore — are struggling financially and are looking for a swift decision."
McDonough said that "state and local officials have provided FEMA with extensive documentation of the damages and we are … awaiting a decision."
FEMA declined to discuss the status of Maryland's application other than to say that it remains under review. Several officials said that the agency has requested additional information from state emergency officials and that those assessments are currently underway.
The agency is reviewing a similar request from West Virginia.
"We're going to find a way to help," said Sen. Ben Cardin, who has pressed the administration for the designation. "We believe that we have a good chance, but we're not putting all of our eggs in one basket — we are looking at other ways we can help the individuals involved."
Cardin and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, both Democrats, signed a letter to the White House last week arguing that some residents are "in desperate need" of the assistance. Cardin said he has spoken to FEMA administrator W. Craig Fugate about Maryland's request.
"Nearly a month after Sandy, it's important that these residents know that they have a federal government on their side," Mikulski said in a statement.
In addition to federal aid to state and local governments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said this week that it will impose a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of federally backed mortgages in some portions of Maryland.
Bradshaw and others said FEMA is working aggressively on the ground in the Eastern Shore to assess damage. On the surface, he said, the city appears to have made a remarkable recovery but deep problems remain.
"If you ride through Crisfield, it looks pretty good now," Bradshaw said. "But when you get inside [the homes], that's when you say, 'Oh my goodness — they're sitting on wet furniture.'"
Cardin and Harris spoke at a hearing Thursday of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works intended to assess the impact of the storm. During her testimony, New York Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand broke into tears as she described the story of two young boys who were swept away from their mother by floodwaters on Staten Island.
The hearing came as the White House prepares to send a multibillion-dollar emergency spending request to Congress to fund disaster relief. That legislation will land in the middle of difficult negotiations over other fiscal issues that must be resolved by year's end.
Similar disaster spending bills have recently become controversial as Republicans have sought to offset their cost with other budget cuts. Harris said he would insist that any additional money spent on Sandy recovery be paid for without adding to budget deficits.
He dismissed concerns that the position could jeopardize disaster funding to Maryland and other states.
"We have a $3.5 trillion budget," Harris said. "We should be able to find enough savings in that budget to pay for true disasters."
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We didn't write about Dan Rather's retirement from CBS because we didn't have much of anything to say about it. But Howard Kurtz called me yesterday for a reaction, and quoted me in today's Washington Post:
John Hinderaker, a lawyer whose conservative blog raised early questions about the disputed Guard documents, said it was "really indefensible" for Rather to have stood by the story for nearly two weeks. But, he said, "I've got some sympathy for the view that he had a long and distinguished career and that one episode shouldn't negate a lot of years of hard work. I always kind of liked the guy. He was a little quirky, an old-fashioned anchorman."
We never had any ill-will toward Rather, and wish him the best in his retirement. Assuming he retires; he's reportedly negotiating with Mark Cuban for some kind of cable TV deal.


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Ceramic art: comment and review, 1882-1977 : an anthology of writings on modern ceramic art
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11:57 a.m. – Miscellaneous. Incident location was Second Street and Highway 119. Completed.
1:10 p.m. – Petty theft. Investigation pending contact with victim. Incident location was Fastrip, 903 Kern St. Completed.
1:13 p.m. – Suspicious person. Incident location was 200 block of Sunset Lane. Both north and south alleys check OK. Completed.
2:40 p.m. – Petty theft. Incident location was 7-11, 1124 Sixth Street. Completed.
2:50 p.m. – Animal control. Incident location was Tenth and A streets. Completed.
4:25 p.m. – Trespassing. Incident location was 918 Fourth St. Completed.
5:56 p.m. – Forgery of documents. Incident location was 320 Commerce Way. Completed.
8:21 p.m. – Vehicle check. Officer initiated activity at A Street Park. Blue Ford pickup. Completed.
8:46 p.m. – DUI. Officer initiated activity at A Street and Harding Street. Arrest made.
8:51 p.m. – Domestic violence. Male-female disturbance in alley closest to church. Incident location was 800 block of Sixth Street. Completed.
8:45 p.m. – Domestic violence. Incident location was Fourth and Calvin Street. Completed. Verbal only.
11:21 p.m. – Assist other departments. Officer initiated activity at 405 Van Buren. Completed.
11:40 p.m. – Building check. Officer initiated activity at Chilled & Grilled, 621 Center St. Checks OK
12:02 a.m. – Building check. Officer initiated activity at Oasis Bar, 414 North Street. Checks OK.
12:08 a.m. – Assist other departments. Officer initiated activity in the 600 block of Woodrow.
12:29 a.m. – Disturbing the peace. KCSO reported dirtbike causing a disturbance. Incident location was 500 block of Philippine. Completed.
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12:41 p.m. – Hit-and-run. Noninjury hit-and-run reported at Fourth and Calvin. R/P followed vehicle to apartments on Jefferson Street. R/P now standing by at Fourth and Calvin. Suspect vehicle a silver minivan that hit a Toyota. Report taken.
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4:56 a.m. – Public intoxication. In the park on 200 block of E. Kern Street by the memorial wall. Arrest made.
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Do the Brewers have the "secret sauce" for success? [The Brewers Bar]
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High is proud to announce the return of the $20,000 Cholula Triple Air
Show Saturday, February 4. For 14 straight years, riders like
Shaun White, Zak Hale, and Keegan Valaika have competed
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This year first place takes home $5,000 in the Mens Snowboarding
Division, $3,500 in Open Skiing, and $2,000 in Womens Snowboarding.
Cholula Triple Air Show is unlike any other big air event of its kind.
Instead of one big jump, skiers and snowboarders must tackle three
humongous kickers making their landings and execution crucial. Riders
are scored on their best of two runs and the top 10 finishers make their
way to the finals where awards are paid out to 5th place.
Cholula Triple Air has been upgraded to a 3 star TTR (Ticket To Ride)
event this year which means competitors will earn points towards their
overall worldwide ranking. The TTR standard is what competitive
snowboarders use to rank themselves against each other, and earn entry
into events like the Grand Prix and the Olympics.
One hundred and fifty of the best skiers and snowboarders in North America will descend on Mountain High Saturday, February 4th,
to compete for $20,000 in cash and giant, signature bottles of Cholula
Hot Sauce. The professional-caliber jumps range from 40 to 60 feet and
competitors are encouraged to take advantage of the FREE practice day on
Friday, February 3rd.
John McColly, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, "This is our
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you know there is going to be some heavy competition."
This is an open event but space is limited so competitors are encouraged to register early Friday, February 3rd.
There is no pre-registration at this time.
Below is the complete
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Contest Dates: Saturday February 4th, 2012
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During the winter months in this community, the local bird population simply doesn't get enough food. In an effort to help them out, a man named Jitesh Parmar decided to help supplement their diets so they didn't starve.
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As a student at Oxford, Howard Stringer studied the history of European nations in the 20th century: economic upheaval, shifting alliances, and vast empires crumbling when they failed to keep pace with a changing world. It was good preparation for the problems he would face 40 years later as CEO of Sony.
Founded in 1946 amid the ruins of postwar Japan, Sony was more than just another consumer electronics company. It became known for groundbreaking products — like the Walkman, the first CD player, and the PlayStation game console — that changed the way media was produced, packaged, and consumed. By the late '90s, however, Sony had become bloated, disorganized, rudderless, arrogant, and worst of all, slow to adapt. Stringer's job is to shove the stumbling giant into the 21st century.
He's not the first to take on that challenge. Ten years ago, his predecessor as CEO, Nobuyuki Idei, promised to move Sony from the analog age to the networked era.
At the time, Stringer was running Sony's US operations. "I completely bought into the digital vision in 2000," he says, leaning back on a thick-cushioned chair in his 20th-floor Tokyo office. "And I watched people fail to make it work." Most painful of all was the botched effort to relaunch the Walkman as a digital media device that could compete with the iPod. The product bombed. It had a clunky interface and a lousy online store, and it played Sony's proprietary Atrac audio files instead of standard MP3s. "We were well ahead of Apple," Stringer says. "If we had done it right, we might have dominated that business. But our networked product was built the way it was because that's who we were."
Sony's plan to get 3-D television into living rooms around the world:
Sell lots of Bravia 3-D TVs, which flip through 240 frames per second, alternating between two different perspectives…
…and provide glasses with lenses that flicker on and off in sync with the TV to produce the 3-D effect.
Indeed, Stringer's initial attempts to remake Sony Corporation after becoming CEO in 2005 faltered because of resistance from Sony's OBs (old boys — the Japanese term for corporate lifers). With earnings up 85 percent over the previous year, few saw any reason to rock the boat. A global financial meltdown changed all that. Since 2008, Stringer has overseen tens of thousands of layoffs, a shock to Sony's jobs-for-life culture that probably would have been impossible for a Japanese CEO to carry out. "I've been able to do it because I'm a foreigner — and because we no longer have a choice," he says.
Stringer is, famously, a fish out of water here in the Shinagawa ward of Tokyo, with its legions of salarymen puffing on Mild Sevens, just up the street from the pachinko parlors. "It's unusual for an outsider to become chief executive of a Japanese company," he concedes. Born in Wales, Stringer emigrated to the US in 1965; he has retained a velvety upper-crust British accent, topped with a Cardiff lilt and a leavening of broad American vowels.
It's not just his nationality that brands Stringer as an outsider; he's also a content guy in a company where hardware is king. He won nine Emmys during his stint as a producer of news documentaries for CBS before becoming president of the network. In 1997, he was named president of Sony's American division, where he ran the music publishing and film studios. Stringer candidly acknowledges that he knows little about engineering consumer electronics, which has made rallying the troops at Sony even harder. "Early on, I got a reputation for not favoring hardware, which I thought was a bit unkind," he says.
Stringer has focused more on strengthening software and media in his drive to reinvigorate the company. The ultimate goal is to envelop consumers in an all-Sony cocoon of hardware, services, and content. His strategy is to use Sony's vast resources and varied divisions to push the adoption of new, industry-altering technologies — without staking too much on proprietary formats, an approach that doomed the digital Walkman. And he thinks his plan is beginning to work.
Starting in the 1980s, Sony fought a series of bruising format wars — Betamax versus VHS, Memory Stick versus SD cards, Atrac versus MP3, plasma versus LCD — and lost most of them. That changed in 2006, when the company threw its weight behind the Blu-ray disc format for hi-def video. (Sony was a founder of the Blu-ray Disc Association, and it developed the format along with eight other electronics companies, including Hitachi, Samsung, and Philips.) Two years later, the industry abandoned the competing HD DVD format. For Stringer, that victory was proof that his effort to get Sony's disparate corporate wings to work together — his so-called Sony United campaign — could pay dividends.
Emboldened, he's now doubling down on ambitious new formats by betting big on 3-D video. "We bloody well drove the whole industry to Blu-ray," he says. "Now you'll need the storage capacity of Blu-ray for 3-D."
Sony's Wins
Founded in 1946 as a radio repair shop, Sony has a history of game-changing innovations… and spectacular failures. — Bryan Gardiner
In one of the first big initiatives carried out entirely on Stringer's watch, Sony has refocused its core media product lines around 3-D. Bravia TVs, PlayStation 3 game consoles, Vaio laptops, Blu-ray disc players — even camcorders and digital cameras — will all work together in 3-D. Practically everything, in other words, but the Rolly portable music player that spins around on little wheels. Stringer also hopes to drive adoption with 3-D content made by Sony's media arm — like Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs on Blu-ray DVD, Wipeout on the PlayStation 3, or a nature documentary on the 3-D channel Sony plans to launch next year.
"3-D will sweep the world," Stringer has said. "There is no reason we shouldn't be enormously successful." Sony isn't alone on the 3-D bandwagon. Panasonic, LG, and Toshiba will all have displays out by summer. But no other company seems to be staking as much of its future on the belief that an added dimension will convince millions of consumers to swap out their home entertainment components — which many just recently upgraded to hi-def.
If Sony can't convince enough people that they need 3-D, the credibility that Stringer has amassed within the organization could vanish. Divisions would stop cooperating; engineers would rebuild their fiefdoms. It might become impossible to resist calls to break up the company into more manageable entities. In short, Sony could become just another consumer electronics maker.
Without question, desperate measures are called for. Sony lost more than a billion dollars in 2008. It returned to profitability late last year, but Stringer concedes that the turnaround had as much to do with consolidation — job cuts and factories sold — as with a sales rebound.
Even more dire was the change in the feeling, what Japanese call kibun, surrounding the company. The historic power of its brand is on display at the Sony Museum, on the other side of Shinagawa. A sign near the entrance explains how Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka founded the company in the rubble of postwar Tokyo with a paltry 190,000 yen (about $42,000 today). Then comes a stroll past a panoply of tech artifacts that trigger a Proustian remembrance of gadgets past. There's the Trinitron TV, which seemed so impossibly bright in 1968. There's the original Walkman — the iPod of its era. No, that's wrong; the iPod is the Walkman of its era.
A visitor exploring the museum can't fail to be impressed by how often Sony reinvented the way we consume media: the first pocket transistor radio, the first cassette tape player, the first home video recorder, the first all-transistor television, the first CD player, the first DAT player, the first 3.5-inch floppy disk.
By the beginning of the Reagan administration, Sony had acquired the sort of kibun that Apple enjoys today. The ovoid buttons, matte-black finishes, and slide controls were sleekly futuristic, intuitive, and comfortable. Sony products always seemed to be exactly what we didn't even know we were waiting for.
Today, Sony's kibun is in tatters. It has been a long, long time since the company released a game-changing product, and it remains committed to making luxe devices with a confusing array of functions at a time when people want simpler, cheaper gizmos like the Flip videocam, the Wii game console, and the Kindle media reader. Even the names are telling: Flip, Wii, and Kindle — so simple. Most Sony product names are strings of letters and numbers that sound like the designations of Star Wars droids. In the market for a 3-D TV? Would you prefer an XBR-60LX900 or an XBR-46LX900?
How could a company so quickly lose its dominance over product categories it invented? In the course of several meetings with Stringer, I keep returning to the notion that Sony once owned its consumers' imaginations. Finally, he can't take it anymore. "I wish you'd stop saying that," he snaps.
It's not that he disagrees, but the former history student thinks that focusing on the past is counterproductive. "The company has defined itself by its history instead of its future," Stringer says. Rehashing old successes means dwelling on a time when Sony could still think of itself as just a hardware company. "Morita always said, 'Let the engineers sit in Tokyo and dream up what they want to create,'" he says. "That worked in the '70s and '80s. But nowadays, a great hardware company has to master software and connectivity."
He's got a point. Sony has undeniably been hurt by its lack of attention to software and networking. Its devices have nothing like the intuitive interfaces and ease of use that distinguish Apple products. And even when it's ahead of the competition with an innovative device, the product is often hamstrung by mediocre online services. In only the latest such story, Sony has been selling ebook readers since 2004, yet Amazon's Kindle was able to steal the bulk of that market on the strength of an easy online book-purchasing system — which Sony lacked. Apple's iPad may now push Sony's ebook readers into third place.
The company has also been hobbled by another, even more fundamental connectivity issue: Engineers in different divisions weren't coordinating their work, even though their products increasingly had overlapping functions. (Camcorders can take still pictures, digital cameras now record video, music players show movies, and the PSP gaming device plays both music and video.) "I told them, 'You are going to have to stop writing duplicate code,'" Stringer says.
When it comes to persuading the public to adopt new formats, Stringer has used content to nudge consumers in the right direction. It's not a new idea: After losing the videocassette wars in the 1980s, Morita lamented that if he had owned a movie studio that sold tapes only in the Betamax format, he might have won. That thinking prompted him to buy Columbia Pictures and increase his ownership of music publishers.
But Morita underestimated the schisms within his own company. Sony's music and film divisions balked at supporting digital audiotape and Hi8 video, formats that the hardware arm of the company was pushing. The predictable result: Those technologies never caught on with consumers.
Stringer's background as a news producer and studio head has helped him bridge this divide. When Blu-ray was gearing up for a 2006 launch, the newly installed CEO went to Tokyo and addressed company executives. "I told them that we have to win with this format," he says. "I used the Betamax example. I got the movie studio involved. I got the PlayStation involved."
It worked. The rival HD DVD format, backed by companies like Microsoft and Toshiba, was discontinued in early 2008. Blu-ray won in part because Sony Pictures, which controls a significant portion of the film market, refused to release any of its titles on HD DVD. And then there were the Blu-ray players built into every PlayStation 3 game console. The victory seemed a vindication of the Sony United strategy.
But it came at a steep price — perhaps too steep. Blu-ray has become the next-gen disc standard at a time when DVD sales are declining. The future of video distribution will be online, not on discs. And while outfitting the PS3 with Blu-ray may have aided the video format, it made the PS3 expensive, hurting sales. The company's previous console, the PlayStation 2, led the industry with a 70 percent market share. The PS3 is currently in third place with about 25 percent.
Still, in a company where CEOs are defined by the format wars they lose, Stringer has won his maiden battle. To his mind, the company-wide push for Blu-ray is a model for how to proceed from here. "At a management conference last May, I said, 'I know many of you aren't yet convinced about 3-D, but we are going to get into this business.' Eight different parts of the organization can work on this."
At various outposts of the Sony empire — the corporate tower in Tokyo, the consumer electronics HQ in San Diego, the movie studios in Culver City — there is indeed an impressive coordination of the message being spun around Stringer's 3-D vision. Executives are so confident that when I told one I had recently purchased a Sony Bravia TV, he said he felt sorry for me — that meant I'd have to buy another one this summer, when the 3-D version is released.
That vision, of mainstream consumers rushing out to buy all things 3-D, seems a little less far-fetched now than it did before December 18 of last year. That's when the movie Avatar hit theaters. The eye-popping alien environments in James Cameron's blockbuster convinced millions of people that 3-D wasn't just a novelty. Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Pictures,1 believes that the latest form of the technology represents a sea change for movies. He equates it with "seeing a pre-Renaissance painting, then going across the plaza to see a Giotto and realizing there is something called perspective. The world just opens up."
Stringer thinks he can bring this new way of viewing digital images from the multiplex to the couch, and the centerpiece of his plan is the television. The Bravia 3-D TV rolls out in June, and it will work in a manner very similar to the system used to show Avatar in theaters. In a sign that the company has learned a lesson from the digital Walkman fiasco about locking consumers into Sony-only content, the TVs also have a wealth of connectivity features, some of which lead to competing media companies. There are built-in links to YouTube, Netflix's streaming service, and Amazon's video-on-demand.
But even if Sony is playing well with others these days, its executives still dream of selling consumers on an end-to-end pipeline of Sony products and media. They now speak of a "lens-to-living-room" strategy for 3-D. The company is already the leading maker of pro-grade 3-D cameras and projectors. (Avatar was shot with Sony cameras and displayed in thousands of theaters on the company's projectors.) Sony Pictures Entertainment, Imageworks Animation, and game developers at Sony Computer Entertainment have announced plans to make 3-D content. Sony even intends to offer consumer-grade still and video cameras that support the format. "People are going to like 3-D in their family photos," Stringer insists.
If 3-D takes over multiplexes, dens, and scrapbooks, Sony intends to profit from it.
"We are best positioned to establish 3-D as a format consumers will accept," says Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony's Network Products and Services Group. Hirai is the longtime public face of the PlayStation brand. I'm seated next to him in a luxurious demo room in Sony's Tokyo HQ. Both of us are clutching game controllers and wearing bulky 3-D glasses. To a bystander, we might look like a couple of blind blues musicians. We certainly look like a couple of dorks.
We're playing a 3-D version of the futuristic PS3 racing game Wipeout HD on a 50- inch Bravia TV. The gargantuan screen looks like a window into another universe; the game's sci-fi milieu is as tangible and gorgeously rich as anything in Avatar.
Games could be a killer app for 3-D, and the PlayStation 3 has the inside track. A software upgrade Sony plans to give away this summer will allow the console to play 3-D games and movies on Blu-ray discs. The competing Xbox 360 console has a standard DVD drive, and as Stringer and other Sony execs are fond of pointing out, standard DVDs don't have enough storage space for hi-def 3-D.
But after a few minutes of playing Wipeout with Hirai, whipping my hovership around curves and caroming off hyperrealistic guardrails, I have to stop. The experience is ridiculously intense — maybe too intense. I'm worried that I might vomit. Sony has studied physiological responses like mine, and executives seem to be unconcerned. After a period of adjustment, most players adapt to the experience without ill effects, they say.
The new era of 3-D will entail other discomforts as well — specifically, those bulky glasses. And the "active-shutter" spectacles that Sony TVs require — battery-operated affairs that block one eye and then the other, more than 120 times a second — are far costlier than some competing technologies that use simple polarized lenses. Every TV will come with two pairs, but extras are rumored to cost around $75 apiece.
The viewing experience is, nevertheless, impressive, and so is the company's newfound ability to marshal the combined might of its various divisions. But the real test will come when consumers are asked to open their wallets. Will they embrace the new technology and services? Is the future of entertainment really a gloriously three-dimensional affair, or is that just the view Sony executives see through a pair of rose-tinted active-shutter 3-D lenses?
Stringer seems very much at home here in the Thalberg Building on the Sony Pictures lot. He leans back, and the front legs of his chrome chair lift from the carpet. Stringer is in LA on an autumn afternoon for the premiere of the latest Sony Pictures movie, 2012, which depicts the end of the world. But he is less interested in apocalyptic visions than in his new plan for delivering disaster movies and content of all kinds over the Internet.
He's talking about the PlayStation Network, which launched in 2006 as an online multiplayer gaming service for PS3 owners. You can now use it to download games, surf the Web, flip through digital comics, and buy or rent movies and TV shows. In January, Stringer announced at CES that Sony would extend the network to Web-enabled Bravia TVs and Blu-ray players. "We have more content and services than anybody else," he says. "More movies, more shows — more everything. As we migrate that content to all our products, it becomes more valuable."
That's debatable. Streaming services like Vudu and Netflix have bigger libraries, and they're available through a multitude of devices made by many different companies. Besides, streaming and downloading pose problems for the sort of hi-def content Sony is pushing. "Our infrastructure is robust enough; you can already download HD movies from us today," Stringer says. But even with blazingly fast broadband, enormous hi-def 3-D files might try your patience. (Sony says that 3-D Blu-ray will be 50 percent bigger than standard Blu-ray.) "I wish I could control how much bandwidth you have," he adds. "Unfortunately, we're not in the infrastructure business."
In the short term, what's more important than streaming and downloading services is the promise of TV broadcasting in 3-D. ESPN plans to start a 3-D network this year, and Sony has announced that it will create a
with Discovery and Imax in 2011. Details like broadcast standards and licensing deals need to be resolved, but fortunately for Sony, it's just one of many companies working on the issues: While Stringer hopes to make 3-D technology synonymous with Sony, it's not like the proprietary Atrac audio format, solely and stubbornly pushed by Sony and no one else.
Of course, that also means the success or failure of 3-D is ultimately out of his hands. But Stringer is OK with that. "Am I rolling the dice on 3-D?" he asks. "Yeah, a little bit. You throw the dice all the time in this business. But I'm going to get 3-D right, one way or another, and then I can make life miserable for the competition."
Karl Taro Greenfeld (firstname.lastname@example.com) wrote about anime and the otaku subculture in issue 1.01.
Note 1. Michael Lynton is CEO and co-chairman
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Shells (uncooked or cooked) from 1 pound shrimp or crayfish or one 1 1/2- to 2-pound lobster, well...
Building a better pantry: ricotta
If you thought butter was easy, whoa, Nelly! Ricotta is like...breathing. It's like...walking. It's like...ricotta.
Ricotta is a vastly underappreciated cheese. I mean, how often have you stood in front of the cheese counter, before all those luscious, smelly, oozing beauties and said, "I think I want ricotta tonight"?
Was "never" your answer? Well, it certainly was mine.
Ricotta is better known as "that cheese that goes in lasagna." Or maybe you stuff pasta shells with it. But basically, ricotta isn't something you just want to stick a spoon in and start munching. It pretty much has no flavor, right?
Well, I hate to be the one to burst that bubble, but you've been fooled. The stuff they sell in 16 ounce containers at the grocery store? Tasteless, nearly textureless gunk. And considering how EASY ricotta is, there's no reason you should settle for that.
Of course, as with all cheesemaking, you start out with a gallon of milk and wind up with a cup or two of cheese. If you use cream or part cream, you'll have a higher yield, but the fact is, you need a lot of milk to make a little cheese.
Having said that, you will be utterly wowed at what real ricotta tastes like. It's a little sweet, very slightly floral, and, if you use lemon juice as your coagulant, it will be pleasantly lemony and tart. It's ricotta that you can just eat by itself. I often eat it as dessert with a little fruit and chocolate. You can use it in recipes--lasagna, shells, ricotta pancakes--but you may not want to. It's that good.
When I was working as a cheese maker's apprentice, we made ricotta every once in a while. We made it with whey leftover from big cheese makes, and the reason we didn't make it more than "once in a while" was because it just took the day over the top. From a reasonable (or at least bearable) amount of work to a very unreasonable and excessive amount of work. After a good nine hours or longer of making whatever it was we were making, having to fill buckets with whey, transfer it to the pasteurizer, heat it to 180 degrees, and collect maybe five to ten pounds of ricotta from the scalding hot liquid...it was, more often than not, just too much.
But at home, ricotta isn't nearly as dramatic, and if you'll allow me to say it again, it's easy.
For this recipe, you can use a variety of dairy products. If you're very ambitious, you might want to use the whey left over from another cheesemaking project. You can also just use whole milk or whole milk enriched with cream. The higher the fat content, the higher the yield and the richer the final product.
I'm writing this recipe as if you're using a gallon of whole milk, but the principal is the same no matter what dairy you use. The yield, however, may be larger or smaller.
Makes 1 1/2 to 2 pounds
Combine in a large pot:
1 gallon whole milk
1 teaspoon salt (use kosher, canning and pickling salt, or sea salt)
Heat the milk to 190°F, stirring often to prevent scorching. Add, stirring once and only once:
1/4 cup lemon juice or 1 teaspoon citric acid dissolved in 1/4 cup cold water
Remove from the heat and let sit, undisturbed, for 15 to 30 minutes. Don't touch it. You can observe the curds and whey separating--it's pretty cool to watch.
Using a fine mesh sieve or butter muslin (or several layers of cheesecloth), strain the curds. Use a ladle to transfer the curds to the sieve. Allow the cheese to drain for about 30 minutes, or until the desired consistency is reached.
The cheese is ready to be eaten immediately if you like. Store, refrigerated for up to one week.
Hi there , was just reading
Hi there , was just reading over your ricotta recipe and i have a question....is there anything you can do with the liquid that is left over?....please advise, thanks
I live in Mexico, and there
I live in Mexico, and there are NO lemons here.... will this work with limes as well?
My family was Italian, & when
My family was Italian, & when I was growing up we always ate fresh ricotta spread on Italian or sourdough bread. Usually the moment we got back from the store, as this was a treat no one could wait for.
You don't say so in the
You don't say so in the recipe, but I think the lemon juice must be fresh. I made it with lemon juice from concentrate (the kind that comes in a bottle), and the batch was a dismal failure. There was some curdling, but I mostly ended up with a lot of milk.
Fortunately I still have the
Fortunately I still have the whole batch in the fridge (I was so frustrated that I considered just throwing it all out). I'll give reheating and adding more acid a try. Thanks for the pointer!
Meg, it worked this time. I
Meg, it worked this time. I had to add another 1/2 cup of lemon juice, but the curdling was quite obvious and nearly instantaneous once I did. I forgot to mention before, but I fortified the milk with a pint of cream in order to increase the cheese yield. I suppose the increased amount of stuff coupled with the potentially weakened acidity of the bottled lemon juice resulted in the first batch not curdling. Now I know what to expect in the future!
I would be interested in trying it again to see if getting it right the first time is better than the reheated stuff I made this time.
Thanks again.
This is interesting, because
This is interesting, because it's exactly how paneer is made. Only difference is after the curds form, you strain in a cloth under pressure to form a firm cake.
Is there a way to improve store-bought ricotta? I already bought some (thinking it would taste like what I've had at restaurants) and was disappointed to find how tasteless it was. Would adding salt, lemon juice, or something else help at all?
Is there any way to make this
Is there any way to make this non-dairy - with coconut or almond milk for instance? My husband can't eat dairy but we both love dishes made with cheese. And the vegan options in the market are awful!
There are some recipes
There are some recipes floating around online, but most of them are just ground-up almonds and almond milk... definitely another awful excuse for cheese. Sorry Arlene!
I have been making ricotta
I have been making ricotta cheese for a couple of years now and will not go back to store bought. It's just too easy to make to stoop to the store bought crud. I do have to give you an added bonus when making ricotta. Have you ever heard of Farmer's Cheese? It's a wonderful "ricotta" cheese that has been drained a little longer in the cheese cloth, basically dried in the refrigerator. But before you retreat it to dry, add some salt and other herbs that you like and then dry it. All you really need to do is when you put it in your container, put a piece of paper towel on the bottom and a piece on top of your cheese and change it each morning for about 3 or 4 days. You will have a nice spreadable cheese similar to goat cheese but without the tang. It's ricotta bumped up several notches.
Nice Lee Ann! We have
Nice Lee Ann! We have definitely heard of farmer's cheese but haven't taken the extra step yet. Can't wait to try!


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The Apparent Cocktail/
Let me see if I can explain to you what I've done so far today. I woke up at what I consider an ungodly hour, cooked breakfast for others and then didn't bother to cook any for myself. I took the subway downtown -- I much prefer using the Bixi bikes, but the people who were my ward today don't ride bikes. Then I
felt like I was dragged around walked around various (underground) malls looking at various gewgaws and having near-arguments; in one memorable instance, I had to insist to one of my charges that yes, this is the hat you had on when you left the house this morning.
At 10:50 a.m. (also an ungodly hour, I barely believe in showing my face in public for any reason at that time of day) these annoying twits wanted lunch. By 12:40 p.m., they decided it was snack time. We came back to my place at 2:30 p.m. to take naps. Their naps didn't last as long as I wanted mine to, which means mine didn't last as long as I wanted mine to. Since then, I've been showing people how to use the phone or admonishing them not to touch this or that.
Why even think about having kids someday? Just babysit your in-from-out-of-town septuagenarian parents all day long!
I. NEED. A. DRINK. What's funny about today's drink being the Apparent Cocktail is... well, there are a few things, and my brain's too running-on-fumes to sort them out in a writerly fashion, so please bear with the following list of bullet points:
* It is more than Apparent that I need a drink.
* The recipe for this cocktail comes from my Old Mr. Boston Official Bartenders Guide,which, like my dad, has been in existence since 1935.
* The Apparent Cocktail reads like a desperation potion, something you slosh together into a McDonald's keepsake cup, should that be all you have on hand. Which I would totally do this afternoon if that's what it came to. However, in actuality the drink is sort of curiously elegant, light-bodied but flavorful start to finish. It tastes to me like what I imagine a pre-war digestif might taste like.
* Please have one for me today.
* Also, note to self: I have to investigate some of these Apparent (get it?) cocktail names from Mr. Boston. Some of them are quite weird, like this one Apparently is.
The Apparent Cocktail
(Adapted from the Old Mr. Boston Official Bartenders Guide)
1 1/4 ounces Bombay Dry gin
1 1/4 ounces creme de cacao (white)
Splash of Arak
2 roasted coffee beans, to garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in an ice-filled mixing glass. Mix briskly and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Drop in the coffee beans (they'll float).
Tasting Notes
The Old Mr. Boston book basically describes this drink as equal parts gin and white creme de cacao; I just decided on 1 1/4 because that's a jigger measurement I most prefer.
The recipe actually calls for a splash of absinthe; to my surprise when I made this drink over the weekend, we didn't have any in the house, so we figured something in the ouzo/arak/anise-flavored family would suffice and I did quite like it as we made it. Sambuca could even work in a pinch, though then I'd recommend shaking the drink since Sambuca's more viscous than these other liquids.
Now my mom's complaining that it's 5:20 p.m. and dinner isn't ready. I have to go.


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Brendan Cunningham joined Yale's heavyweight crew program as a volunteer assistant coach in the fall of 2013. Cunningham is an alumnus of Temple University, having graduated in 2010 with a B.B.A. in Marketing.
As a rower at Temple, Cunningham was a four-year member of the Owls crew team (2006-10).
After graduating, Cunningham was the novice rowing coach at Lower Merion High School in Lower Merion, Penn., where he coached athletes new to the sport.
Before coming to Yale, Cunningham worked as both the freshman/novice coach and recruiting coordinator for the men's rowing program at Washington College in Maryland. While working at Washington, Cunningham expanded the scope of the team's recruiting, bringing in the largest recruited class in the program's history. He also trained members of the team with little to no experience in the sport, developing them into competitive oarsmen.


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Catching frogs, climbing trees, making mud pies, kicking around a ball—these are the true joys of childhood. But it turns out that many little kids aren't experiencing them these days because they're not getting outside.
A new study, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, looked at data from 8,950 preschool-aged children in the U.S. and found that nearly half didn't go outside with a parent to play every day. And girls were 16 percent less likely to get outdoors than boys.
Why the gender discrepancy? It's likely a combination of boys asking for more time outside and parents assuming boys are more athletic and better suited to the outdoors, according to Time.com.
The numbers are even worse for minority families. Time.com reports:
Minorities were far less likely to spend time on the playground with their parents than kids with white parents: Asian mothers were 49% less likely, black mothers 41% less likely and Hispanic mothers 20% less likely to venture outside with their kids. It's probably not coincidence that minority children have a greater tendency to be overweight.
Interestingly, moms were more likely to take kids outside than dads and moms who frequently workout were also better about getting their kids fresh air.
But what I find most interesting is that the study assumes parents should be outside with their kids during outdoor time. When I was a kid you came home from school, changed into grubby clothes, and met up with the neighborhood pack of kids in the street for an afternoon of riding bikes, playing kick-the-can, and building tree forts. And yes, we were outside unsupervised in preschool—although then we were more likely to be running around on someone's front lawn or looking for bugs in the backyard with a parent occasionally checking on us.
Today, our world is often perceived as too unsafe for kids to run around outside without an adult. What's more, there's little time for swinging around on the rope swing outsid between dance classes, math tutors and soccer practice. And when free time becomes available it's spent in front of the TV or on the computer. And we wonder why our country is experiencing a child obesity epidemic?
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While diagnosing problems between Web Server 7.0 and web browsers, it is useful to analyze the requests and responses. When SSL/TLS is not used, for capturing requests and responses between web browser and the server you can use any network capture tool such as ethereal.
But when SSL/TLS is used for communication, you can use the OpensSSL's s_client application for tapping the communication.
Execute the following command (after successful SSL connection) and enter the test HTTP request as desired.
$openssl s_client -host localhost -port 8080 -quiet
By using the same command without the -quiet flag, you can see information about the connection, such as the server DN, Certificate name and negotiated cipher suite.
For testing particular cipher suites, check the -cipher option. For example:
$openssl s_client -host localhost -port 8080 -cipher DES-CBC-SHA
For more information, see the s_client man page at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/s_client.html.
Earlier method of issuing test request works well as long as you can recreate the request content manually. But sometimes you need to diagnose a connection that is being used by a web browser.
There are a number of tools available to observe such request and response data. One such tool is ssltap. ssltap takes the proxy approach-it serves as a simple proxy between the client and the Web Server and displays information about the connections it forwards (you can also use ssltap for observing plain HTTP requests or even requests based on other protocols).
Assume that Web Server is running with an SSL-enabled listener on port 8088 on a machine. Now issue the following command:
$ssltap -l -s localhost:8088 Looking up "localhost"... Proxy socket ready and listening
Use the -l option so ssltap doesn't exit after a single request.
By default ssltap listens on port 1924. Now connect to https://localhost:1924 with your browser. You will get an output like the following snippet:
Connection #1 [Mon Dec 10 15:49:49 2006] Connected to localhost:8088 --> [ alloclen = 87 bytes (87 bytes of 87) [Mon Apr 10 15:49:49 2006] [ssl2] ClientHelloV2 { version = {0x03, 0x01} cipher-specs-length = 60 (0x3c) sid-length = 0 (0x00) challenge-length = 16 (0x10) cipher-suites = { (0x000039) TLS/DHE-RSA/AES256-CBC/SHA (0x000038) TLS/DHE-DSS/AES256-CBC/SHA (0x000035) TLS/RSA/AES256-CBC/SHA (0x000033) TLS/DHE-RSA/AES128-CBC/SHA (0x000032) TLS/DHE-DSS/AES128-CBC/SHA (0x000004) SSL3/RSA/RC4-128/MD5 (0x000005) SSL3/RSA/RC4-128/SHA (0x00002f) TLS/RSA/AES128-CBC/SHA (0x000016) SSL3/DHE-RSA/3DES192EDE-CBC/SHA (0x000013) SSL3/DHE-DSS/DES192EDE3CBC/SHA (0x00feff) SSL3/RSA-FIPS/3DESEDE-CBC/SHA (0x00000a) SSL3/RSA/3DES192EDE-CBC/SHA (0x000015) SSL3/DHE-RSA/DES56-CBC/SHA (0x000012) SSL3/DHE-DSS/DES56-CBC/SHA (0x00fefe) SSL3/RSA-FIPS/DES-CBC/SHA (0x000009) SSL3/RSA/DES56-CBC/SHA (0x000064) TLS/RSA-EXPORT1024/RC4-56/SHA (0x000062) TLS/RSA-EXPORT1024/DES56-CBC/SHA (0x000003) SSL3/RSA/RC4-40/MD5 (0x000006) SSL3/RSA/RC2CBC40/MD5 } session-id = { } challenge = { 0xdfb5 0x1d22 0x6562 0x34f6 0x95b9 0x668a 0x234e 0x38ea } } ]
This is the SSL client hello being sent from the browser to the server. Note the list of cipher suites the browser has sent. This is the set of cipher suites the browser is configured to handle (note that they are sorted in order of preference). The server will pick one of those for the handshake (if the server is not set up to handle any of these, the connection will then immediately fail). In the above snippet, the session-id is empty, which tells you the browser does not have any cached SSL session with this particular server.
For the above request, the Web Server's response is shown below:
<-- [ (1015 bytes of 1010) SSLRecord { [Mon Apr 10 15:49:49 2006] type = 22 (handshake) version = { 3,1 } length = 1010 (0x3f2) handshake { type = 2 (server_hello) length = 70 (0x000046) ServerHello { server_version = {3, 1} random = {...} session ID = { length = 32 contents = {..} } cipher_suite = (0x0035) TLS/RSA/AES256-CBC/SHA } type = 11 (certificate) length = 928 (0x0003a0) CertificateChain { chainlength = 925 (0x039d) Certificate { size = 485 (0x01e5) data = { saved in file 'cert.001' } } Certificate { size = 434 (0x01b2) data = { saved in file 'cert.002' } } } type = 14 (server_hello_done) length = 0 (0x000000) } } ]
The server picked TLS/RSA/AES256-CBC/SHA as the cipher suite to use. A session ID was sent, which this client will include in subsequent requests. The server also sent its certificate chain for the browser to verify. ssltap saved these certificates in the files noted cert.001 and cert.002. You can examine these certificates with any tool that can parse X.509 certificates. For example, execute the following command:
$openssl x509 -in cert.001 -text -inform DER
ssltap is a single threaded proxy server. So if you issue multiple requests through it, the requests will get serialized. If you need to analyze a specific problem with your application that only occurs on concurrent requests through SSL, try running multiple ssltap instances.


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Comment: Everyone recognizes the importance of calcium in the diet of young people ( and older too). What this study tells us is that, while it is important to have adequate calcium in our diets, it is just as important not to overeat foods that cause calcium loss. The combination of caffeine and sugar almost doubles calcium lost through the urine. . The experimental dose used in this study was far less than the average teen's daily consumption of caffeine and sugar. After a hard physical workout, drinking soft drinks can cause calcium and potassium loss, and that in turn can cause sore muscles and delayed recovery time after exercise.
Other foods that cause calcium loss are foods rich in phosphorus, including cola soft drinks. High protein diets can cause bone loss also.
Non-dairy high calcium foods include the dark leafy greens (Collards 360 mg/cup, kale 210 mg/cup, broccoli 160 mg/cup), tofu, navy, and pinto beans (100-150 mg/4 oz), black strap molasses (140 mg/Tbs), corn tortillas (120 mg/2) and whole grains, sardines, salmon, goat feta cheese.
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Ed Sheeran Premieres New Single 'Sing' [LISTEN]
It feels like ages since Ed Sheeran last released new music, but Sheerios have been rewarded for their patience with today's premiere of 'Sing,' the first single from Sheeran's upcoming album 'x.'
The famous ginger recently used Twitter to tease fans into a frenzy over a possible release date for his sophomore album. He later confirmed, to the unconstrained enthusiasm of Sheeran fans everywhere, that 'x,' his thematically-titled follow-up to '+,' is set for a release date of June 23.
If 'Sing' is anything to go by, 'x' will be even more brilliant than its predecessor. Evoking a sound reminiscent of 'Justified'-era Justin Timberlake, 'Sing' is so catchy we dare you to not be bopping along by the time it's over.
The acoustic guitars that the singer-songwriter employs in nearly all of his songs are still prevalent in 'Sing.' He hasn't strayed too far from his boy-with-a-guitar tracks. Neither has he deserted his penchant for rapping; Sheeran breaks it down on the second verse.
Sheeran's smooth falsetto, previously featured on '+' tracks such as 'Give Me Love' and 'Drunk,' is still impressive, and it's exciting to hear his range used in a more upbeat song. 'Sing' is faster-paced than what's usually expected from the British crooner, but the new-yet-familiar sound has been fitted to Sheeran's style and there's no arguing that it's working well.
We're calling it now -- Ed Sheeran's got another hit on his hands!
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Kaitlin Nicole Thomas and Stephen Andrew Gillette were married in Wake Forest.
Kaitlin Nicole Thomas and Stephen Andrew Gillette, both of Raleigh, were united in marriage at 2 p.m. Oct. 13, 2012, at Hope Lutheran Church in Wake Forest. The Revs. Tab Cosgrove and Keith Beasley were the officiating ministers.
Escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents, the bride is the daughter of Mark and Kathy Thomas of Roanoke, Va. She is the granddaughter of Clayton and Betty Thomas of Roanoke, Va.; the late Harold Hughes; and the late Jack and Helen McClung.
A 2007 graduate of Hidden Valley High School in Roanoke, Va., the bride received a master�s in clinical research from Campbell University in 2012. She is a clinical research associate with PRA International in Raleigh.
The groom is the son of Terry and Patsy Gillette of Kinston. He is the grandson of George and Pat Gillette of Jacksonville, B.L. and Thelma Efird of Kinston, and the late Marjorie Efird.
A 2006 graduate of South Lenoir High School, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer information from ECU in 2010. He is system administrator with the State Employees Credit Union main office in Raleigh.
Brittani Ezuma of Raleigh was maid of honor.
The groom�s father served as his son�s best man.
Following a wedding trip to Key West, Fla., the couple resides in Raleigh.


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- 20 February, 2013 14:31
Around 500 premises have been switched on to the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Aspley, Brisbane, with another 1700 premises to join the network in the coming weeks, according to NBN Co.
Construction has commenced on around 135,000 premises in Queensland.
Around the Brisbane area, construction on the NBN has begun in Ascot, Banyo, Bridgeman Downs, Carseldine, Collingwood Park, Eagle Farm, Goodna, Hamilton, Hendra, Northgate, Nudgee, Petrie, Kallangur, Redbank Plains, Slacks Creek, Virginia and Zillmere.
Report: What's life really like on the NBN?
By mid-2015, construction on 678,000 premises is expected to have commenced or been completed.
Fibre services in Coffs Harbour, NSW were also recently switched on, with around 2600 premises now able to sign up for fibre NBN services in the region following the first NBN cable being laid in the area in November last year.
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Title by author. Publisher, date.
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Ages 2-6, 100 pages.
Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman. Holiday House, 2006.
This is a well-written account of the Montgomery bus boycott. Illustrated with black and white photos.
Ages 9-12, 114 pages.
Speaking Out : The Civil Right Movement, 1950 – 1964 by Kevin Supples. National Geographic, 2006.
This traces the civil rights movement from the post war years to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Photos on nearly every page complement the text.
Ages 9-12, 40 pages.
Let it Shine! : Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Stephen Alcorn. Gulliver Books, 2000.
This engaging book includes portraits of 10 brave female civil rights activists. Included are Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Fanny Lou Hamer.
Ages 9-12, 120 pages.
When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan. Illus by Brian Selznick. Scholastic, 2002.
A gorgeous picture book biography of Marian Anderson, documenting her life through the Civil Rights movement. The book is illustrated as if it were a theater production of her life with sepia tones and plays with lighting. Back matter includes a more detailed history, a timeline, and music information, plus there is a matching DVD of Anderson's songs.
Ages 4-8,40 pages
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr by Doreen Rappaport. Illus by Bryan Collier. Hyperion, 2007.
This title is an age-appropriate biography of MLK, Jr. that uses incredible, realistic artwork combined with brief yet effective prose.
Ages 4-8, 40 pages.
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges. Scholastic, 1999.
A memoir of Ruby Bridges, complete with photos, newspaper clippings, and informative sidebars.
9-12, 64 pages.
Rosa by Nicki Giovianni. Illus. by Bryan Collier. Henry Holt and Co., 2005.
A beautiful and intimate portrayal of Rosa Park and her legendary bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama.
Ages 4-8, 40 pages
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